Fisrt timer...

Greetings!

I'm very first timer with Verilog, hence I may pose silly questions.
Please, understand.
And, if you guys think this is not the right forum for Verilog first
timers, I would appreciate if you adress me elsewhere.

Ok, I'm using Windows and I need to start coding, simulating,
synthesizing and verifying with reliable free Verilog SW. Target
product is FPGA.

What SW do you suggest?
What about Icarus Verilog?
Is there EDA house that allows limited access to Verilog SW?

Thanks by now. Hopefully your inputs will generate more questions.

 

[John_H]

mamboknave@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings!

I'm very first timer with Verilog, hence I may pose silly questions.
Please, understand.
And, if you guys think this is not the right forum for Verilog first
timers, I would appreciate if you adress me elsewhere.

Ok, I'm using Windows and I need to start coding, simulating,
synthesizing and verifying with reliable free Verilog SW. Target
product is FPGA.

What SW do you suggest?
What about Icarus Verilog?
Is there EDA house that allows limited access to Verilog SW?

Thanks by now. Hopefully your inputs will generate more questions.

Do you intend to begin by designing ASICs or is your intent to program
FPGAs?

Are you more interested in getting into simulation and verification
rather than hardware design?

If you're interested in FPGAs, do you have an FPGA vendor selected?

 

Do you intend to begin by designing ASICs or is your intent to program FPGAs?

Directly into FPGA.

Are you more interested in getting into simulation and verification rather than hardware design?

Priority to HW design but it must be accompained with verification.

If you're interested in FPGAs, do you have an FPGA vendor selected?

There are not many, right? I may use either Altera or Xilinx but it's
still TBD.

Thanks for asking

 

[John_H]

mamboknave@gmail.com wrote:

Do you intend to begin by designing ASICs or is your intent to program FPGAs?

Directly into FPGA.

Are you more interested in getting into simulation and verification rather than hardware design?

Priority to HW design but it must be accompained with verification.

If you're interested in FPGAs, do you have an FPGA vendor selected?

There are not many, right? I may use either Altera or Xilinx but it's
still TBD.

Thanks for asking

If you work with the FPGAs, you should have web versions of the tools
available for all the parts in the less expensive demo boards.

The Verilog synthesizers aren't top of the line tools, but they've
gotten rather good over time and are quite respectable for doing some
decent design work.

I'd suggest you find a board that you want to work with, then download
the free tools from that FPGA vendor. See if those tools meet your needs.

I haven't used the simulation capabilities in either of those vendors
myself. Perhaps they're what you need but I'd have to defer to others
for a good opinion.

 

[Mike Treseler]

mamboknave@gmail.com wrote:

Ok, I'm using Windows and I need to start coding, simulating,
synthesizing and verifying with reliable free Verilog SW. Target
product is FPGA.
What SW do you suggest?
pick your hdl first, and get a simulator.

What about Icarus Verilog?
http://bleyer.org/icarus/

Is there EDA house that allows limited access to Verilog SW?
Google for for verilog examples,

but you have to learn how to write your own.
For that you need a simulator.

Thanks by now. Hopefully your inputs will generate more questions.

Good luck.

-- Mike Treseler