FPGA-programmers and VHDL on OS-X?

[Oliver Bandel]

Hello,

what products are available for OS-X (or Linux-stuff
that easily can be ported to OS-X) for FPGA-programming
and VHDL?

I need hardware as well as software.

Any ressources/tools you can recommend?


TIA,
Oliver

 

[Mike Treseler]

Oliver Bandel wrote:

what products are available for OS-X (or Linux-stuff
that easily can be ported to OS-X) for FPGA-programming
and VHDL?

I need hardware as well as software.

Not many.
I would start with emacs and vhdl-mode for design entry:
http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/faq.html
http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~zimmi/emacs/vhdl-mode.html

And a vhdl simulator.
I haven't tried this one, but it looks interesting:
http://www.gmvhdl.com/mac-dv.html

I would defer getting hardware until
I had working code to try out.

-- Mike Treseler

 

[Andy Peters]

Oliver Bandel wrote:

what products are available for OS-X (or Linux-stuff
that easily can be ported to OS-X) for FPGA-programming
and VHDL?

I need hardware as well as software.

Any ressources/tools you can recommend?

There are none.

Seems to me that since X Windows works well with OS X, the
Linux/Solaris tools could be ported to OS X without much difficulty.

.... but then look how long it took the Usual Suspects to port to Linux.

So don't hold your breath.

-a

 

[Arnim Laeuger]

Hi Oliver,

Any ressources/tools you can recommend?

You might want to have a look at

http://eng-osx.sourceforge.net/

It hosts a couple of EDA tools ported over to OS X from the GNU/Unix world.


Cheers

Arnim

 

[Phil Tomson]

In article <1144935009.930134@elch.in-berlin.de>,
Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:

Hello,

what products are available for OS-X (or Linux-stuff
that easily can be ported to OS-X) for FPGA-programming
and VHDL?

I need hardware as well as software.

Any ressources/tools you can recommend?

the GHDL VHDL simulator runs fine on OSX, I was using it quite a bit last
year:
http://eng-osx.sourceforge.net/GHDL.html

As far as synthesis tools go things aren't so available. Of course now
that Apple has Intel based Macs that opens up some possibilities. I
wonder if you could run Wine on an Intel-based Mac and then run Xilinx
(windows) tools under that?
Also, as OS X shares a lot with FreeBSD underneath one wonders if you
could run the Linux XST binaries on an Intel-based Mac OSX machine using
the Linux compatibility layer that allows FreeBSD to run Linux binaries?

Phil