Why is HDL coder not available for home license?
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I see that MATLAB Student Edition has MATLAB HDL Coder available, but Home license does not. It occurs to me that with applications like software defined radio, a Home user might want to target a low-cost FPGA board. Thus it does not make sense to not let this functionality be available.
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Astarag Chattopadhyay
on 6 Apr 2017
Certain coder products are not available for home license as they are complicated and without assistance it will be difficult for the customers to use.
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josh beaker
on 28 Aug 2021
Lol, HDL coder is not available so I simply have to learn verilog, you have forced my hand on moving around your product, if I ever take my FPGA knowledge to my corporation, it will not have touched MATLAB or HDL, and you will have lost customers.
If you made it available without support you could have had tens of sales, now you get none.
Abel
on 5 Jul 2024
2024 and still not avaialble. Please re-consider :) , I think that the opportunity of a lot of passionate users to have access to this version of the software allows for exploring uses cases at home that may be beneficial in the company you are working on, you can get into a much deeper demostrations in order to sell the idea, and then obviously if hit, purchase the commercial license. I'm not a power user now for Matlab, but Im in the middle of a research at work and I have been considering buying the home version to fully try the possible solution, but when I noticed that I can't get the HDL coder I disscarded the option. I know that there is demo versions or ways to work with Mathworks, but I always feel that I have a second boss when trying to evaluate any product to be implemented as an option. Despite of the work opportunities, I love FPGAs and I have been learning about it very slowly, VHDL is a slow slope to learn for me, but I love the Matlab workflow with the HDL coder, hope this can be available soon. Not sure if there is a feature request somewhere.
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