Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Sanjay Singh ([email protected]) wrote: >> Is there some kind of commercial value to a runnable VHDL model created >> with GHDL? > > Why not? Perhaps someone developed some synthesizable VHDL that they > want to sell to someone else, but the other person wants a simulation > model they can develop a driver against or some other design > that's going to interface to it. > > Perhaps they have an existing commercial VHDL model that they want to let > a GHDL user develop against that's already available for other > envrionments. Maybe it's a model of something process or FPGA specific.
I was thinking about something along those lines. Many companies may want to distribute "evaluation" versions of their "IP cores", the faster speed is not required, the client will have to pay for the source code and/or a fast version. There is no inherent "security" of the IP, since as far as I understand, a simple analysis of the executable will provide the binary of the "core", which can then be easily decompiled. But there may be a niche somewhere that other commercial tools have not filled. I'm not sure that we (in this list) will find it, but the big companies will certainly know when/where they find it. And GHDL will be ready :-) Hope this helps, > Dave yg -- http://ygdes.com / http://yasep.org _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
