Congratulation on getting two offers! However, it is hard for someone else to give you career advice, as those kind of things are always case by case. Probably at the end of the day, it will come down to what you like more in your heart. But from job seeking point of view. my judgement is that there are more positions for firmware engineers in the industry, as making ASIC becomes more and more expensive. Only a limited number of companies can afford advanced nodes going forward, and the second winner is the first loser when the competition gets hot.

BTW, the Quartus Prime Lite Edition includes Quartus Prime and Modelsim. Quartus Prime is mainly for synthesis and Place/Route, while modelsim is for simulation only.

Modelsim Starter Edition is part of the Quartus Prime. Please go to www.altera.com, click support, and then click download for Quartus Prime Lite Edition. You will see " ModelSim-Intel FPGA Edition (includes Starter Edition) " as part of the download.

Thanks for your input. Probably you are not gonna have everything that you wished for, but we will try our best in the next product :-)

We thought about Spartan 6LX once. The problem with it is that it is not supported by Vivado. Only ISE supports the Spartan 6LX, and it seems Xilinx is deserting ISE and focusing on the Vivado going forward. And if we can come up with an Altera board that has 25K LE, under $100, will you be interested? And what other features that you care?

Thank you so much for your comments. Do you have a particular reason to prefer xilinx over altera? And what Xilinx device do you have in mind in this regard?