> Or something similar. The remaining Ada files are without a comment > header. I am curious to know the history of GHDL. When, How, Why did > the project start? Was there any funding or support?
The history is quite simple. I discovered VHDL during my studies, was fascinated by HDL, and wanted to know more. At that time there were no free VHDL simulator (except maybe SAVANT - I think I tried it but was unable to run my project with it). So to understand better VHDL, I decided to write a simulator. Because I also wanted to train myself in Ada and because VHDL derives from Ada, I have written it in Ada. I think I started in 1998. In 2002, GHDL was complete enough to simulate many designs, so I release it. > Shock and awe aside for a moment, is there an architecture document > and an API/ABI document? No. I am used to saying it has the classical architecture of a compiler: lexical analysis (scanner.adb), parser (parse.adb), semantic analysis (sem*), and code generation (translate.adb). Ok, I agree that doesn't help a lot :-) Tristan. _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
