On Wednesday 24 March 2010 11:23:04 Yann Guidon wrote: > I am doing a little survey about GHDL and would like to > know a few things about actual use of GHDL. > > - does anybody use it on non-x86 platforms, and which ? > (SPARC, ARM, MAC, Alpha, whatever...)
I maintain the Debian package for GHDL and it works on many platforms there. See <http://packages.debian.org/sid/ghdl>. I *personally* only use it on x86 and x86-64. > - Are there any list subscribers who have used > GHDL successfully where other tools don't do fit ? and why/how ? > - Any interesting project (educational, scientific, industrial) > where GHDL plays (or has played) a significant role ? > - Any story about how GHDL cohabits with other equivalent tools > (Aldec, Mentor, Simili, whatever) I use GHDL and Icarus Verilog as primary development tools for all of my professional ASIC and FPGA design. I only use other tools when they are absolutely required because of limitations in free software tools. > - Any work about parallelizing GHDL so it benefits > from multicore CPUs or computer farms ? (that's my hobby ;-P) Parallelizing large event-driven simulations is extremely difficult because the messaging overhead usually vastly outweighs the actual computational requirements. But, for me, GHDL takes advantage of my multi-core machines very well. I just run many large regression tests simultaneously with "make -j". _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
