A simple Verilog test environment wanted

[James Harris]

I'm fairly new to Verilog and HDLs in general and am looking for a
simple means under Windows of compiling and testing Verilog code. I
have the Xilinx suite of tools (and a basic board from Digilent).

Is there a simpler freeware environment for generic Verilog
development where one doesn't want to write to hardware? The Xilinx
suite is rather large and complex, especially now that the non-
freeware components are included in the download.

James

 

[Cary R.]

On 9/20/2010 6:42 AM, James Harris wrote:

Is there a simpler freeware environment for generic Verilog
development where one doesn't want to write to hardware?

You can find Icarus for windows here

http://bleyer.org/icarus/

The 0.9.* files also include GTKWave.

Cary

 

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

James Harris <james.harris.1@googlemail.com> wrote:

I'm fairly new to Verilog and HDLs in general and am looking for a
simple means under Windows of compiling and testing Verilog code. I
have the Xilinx suite of tools (and a basic board from Digilent).

Is there a simpler freeware environment for generic Verilog
development where one doesn't want to write to hardware? The Xilinx
suite is rather large and complex, especially now that the non-
freeware components are included in the download.

I believe that veriwell is still around. It works fine for
smaller projects. For large ones, the Xilinx suite might
be better.

-- glen

 

[James Harris]

On 20 Sep, 17:05, "Cary R." <no-s...@host.spam> wrote:

On 9/20/2010 6:42 AM, James Harris wrote:

Is there a simpler freeware environment for generic Verilog
development where one doesn't want to write to hardware?

You can find Icarus for windows here

http://bleyer.org/icarus/

The 0.9.* files also include GTKWave.

Thanks for both the replies. I found an old Veriwell for Unix (rather
than the preferred Windows) which has a problem finding its shared
object library. However Icarus for Windows runs fine in a command
window.

Whoo! I have my first working Verilog program.

James