harnhua

Some thoughts in response to your comments:

> professional engineers > A. They could figure out the answer to these questions on their own. [harnhua] True - what they would gain by using our webapp is convenience and automated testing/evaluation.

> B. one of the large distribution companies would only be too happy to send out a sales engineer to assist with the decision making process. [harnhua] Probably only if one is buying enough FPGAs/CPLDs to pay for that sales engineer? I reckon there should be many small-/medium-volume projects staffed by professional engineers who wouldn't attract such a level of customer service from the distributors. Sales engineers who're skilled in FPGAs are probably in short supply.

> hobbyist market [harnhua] Although there's little money there, we'd really like to make FPGAs easier to use for students and hobbyists as well.

Any thoughts?

When you mentioned that it probably wouldn't matter too much for the apps that you developed, did you mean that they were too small/slow/<something> for you to care?

Thanks for the encouragement. It's great fun shifting a traditionally desktop-bound and kinda conservative application onto the web, and sort of distilling the bare minimum features required to make it work.

Thanks for stopping by!