Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-29 Thread Hagen SANKOWSKI
Hello. Am 29.04.2008 um 01:23 schrieb Stephen Williams: Attila Kinali wrote: On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:22:17 +0200 Hagen SANKOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mostly bad VHDL design goes to FPGA, good Verilog design goes to ASICs. Uhm... I don't think i have to comment on something

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-29 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:04:38 -0700 Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you know, this year's Icarus Verilog GSoC candidate is working on a VHDL code generator back-end for Icarus Verilog. Hooray! But suddenly the obvious question comes up, How are we going to run these generated

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-29 Thread Dan McMahill
Attila Kinali wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:04:38 -0700 Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you know, this year's Icarus Verilog GSoC candidate is working on a VHDL code generator back-end for Icarus Verilog. Hooray! But suddenly the obvious question comes up, How are we going to

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-29 Thread Stephen Williams
Attila Kinali wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:04:38 -0700 Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you know, this year's Icarus Verilog GSoC candidate is working on a VHDL code generator back-end for Icarus Verilog. Hooray! But suddenly the obvious question comes up, How are we going to

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-28 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:22:17 +0200 Hagen SANKOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a freelancer now 10 years in business I work nearly on a every day basis with *both* languages, Verilog HDL and VHDL. In general, I see two trends. First, the serious and bigger the SoC design, the often

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-28 Thread Günter Dannoritzer
Stephen Williams wrote: [...] Has anybody here used ghdl? freehdl? Relative merits? Which is most active? The most portable? Easiest to use? It just seems like ghdl has the most activity associated with it, but FreeHDL doesn't look completely dead either. So what to choose? For openSUSE you

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-28 Thread Günter Dannoritzer
al davis wrote: On Friday 25 April 2008, Stephen Williams wrote: As you know, this year's Icarus Verilog GSoC candidate is working on a VHDL code generator back-end for Icarus Verilog. Hooray! But suddenly the obvious question comes up, How are we going to run these generated files? I'm here

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-28 Thread Stephen Williams
Attila Kinali wrote: On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:22:17 +0200 Hagen SANKOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mostly bad VHDL design goes to FPGA, good Verilog design goes to ASICs. Uhm... I don't think i have to comment on something uneducated like this, do i? Right, let's please not fall into this

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-28 Thread al davis
On Monday 28 April 2008, Stephen Williams wrote: Mostly bad VHDL design goes to FPGA, good Verilog design goes to ASICs. Uhm... I don't think i have to comment on something uneducated like this, do i? Right, let's please not fall into this pit. I was hoping the mud would dry up and

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-26 Thread Hagen SANKOWSKI
Hello. Am 25.04.2008 um 23:04 schrieb Stephen Williams: As you know, this year's Icarus Verilog GSoC candidate is working on a VHDL code generator back-end for Icarus Verilog. Hooray! But suddenly the obvious question comes up, How are we going to run these generated files? I'm here looking

gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-25 Thread Stephen Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As you know, this year's Icarus Verilog GSoC candidate is working on a VHDL code generator back-end for Icarus Verilog. Hooray! But suddenly the obvious question comes up, How are we going to run these generated files? I'm here looking for

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-25 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:04:38 -0700 Stephen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you know, this year's Icarus Verilog GSoC candidate is working on a VHDL code generator back-end for Icarus Verilog. Hooray! But suddenly the obvious question comes up, How are we going to run these generated

Re: gEDA-user: Open VHDL Simulators?

2008-04-25 Thread al davis
On Friday 25 April 2008, Stephen Williams wrote: As you know, this year's Icarus Verilog GSoC candidate is working on a VHDL code generator back-end for Icarus Verilog. Hooray! But suddenly the obvious question comes up, How are we going to run these generated files? I'm here looking for