VHDL for Linux?

[Bengt T]

Which freeware is recommended to use for experiments and and simple
tests of designing with VHDL in Linux?

 

[Mike Treseler]

Bengt T wrote:

Which freeware is recommended to use for experiments and and simple
tests of designing with VHDL in Linux?

this one is free, but complex and incomplete:
http://ghdl.free.fr/

This looks like what you need, but it isn't quite free:
http://www.gmvhdl.com/directVHDL.html


-- Mike Treseler

 

[Brian Drummond]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:16:04 -0800 (PST), Bengt T
<bengt.tornq@gmail.com> wrote:

Which freeware is recommended to use for experiments and and simple
tests of designing with VHDL in Linux?

In addition to Mike's suggestions, consider Webpack from Xilinx, which
is free (but intended to sell you Xilinx chips).
It's a 2.2GB download...

As of 10.1, the in-built simulator is starting to look like a useful
product (still a few rough edges but certainly good enough for
learning). The other tools are fine.

Only SUSE 10 and RHEL (4 I think) officially supported, and only 32-bit
for the free Webpack, but I've been using it under SUSE 11 (64 bit with
the 32-bit compatibility libs) without trouble. I've also installed
under Fedora 8, (32 bit) successfully, once I realised you had to turn
SELinux off before running the installer...

- Brian

 

[Pinhas]

On 29 נובמבר, 02:28, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com>
wrote:

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:16:04 -0800 (PST), Bengt T

bengt.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
Which freeware is recommended to use for experiments and and simple
tests of designing with VHDL in Linux?

In addition to Mike's suggestions, consider Webpack from Xilinx, which
is free (but intended to sell you Xilinx chips).
It's a 2.2GB download...

As of 10.1, the in-built simulator is starting to look like a useful
product (still a few rough edges but certainly good enough for
learning). The other tools are fine.

Only SUSE 10 and RHEL (4 I think) officially supported, and only 32-bit
for the free Webpack, but I've been using it under SUSE 11 (64 bit with
the 32-bit compatibility libs) without trouble. I've also installed
under Fedora 8, (32 bit) successfully, once I realised you had to turn
SELinux off before running the installer...

- Brian

I work a lot with http://ghdl.free.fr/
It compiles well a complex design such as LEON processor:
I2C master connected and tested with LEON Processor
http://bknpk.no-ip.biz/I2C/leon_2.html

 

[Petter Gustad]

Pinhas <bknpk@hotmail.com> writes:

I work a lot with http://ghdl.free.fr/

I had problems compiling the Altera libraries with ghdl some time ago.
Did anybody have any success using ghdl with the Altera libraries?

Petter

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I may be top-posting, but at least I'm not hijacking (and killing)
threads.

BTW, GHDL does work for specific Altera primitives; every one that
I've tried, that is.



On Nov 30, 8:59 am, Petter Gustad <newsmailco...@gustad.com> wrote:

Pinhas <bk...@hotmail.com> writes:
I work a lot withhttp://ghdl.free.fr/

I had problems compiling the Altera libraries with ghdl some time ago.
Did anybody have any success using ghdl with the Altera libraries?

Petter

--
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A: Top-posting.
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[Clunixchit]

On Nov 28, 8:16 pm, Bengt T <bengt.to...@gmail.com> wrote:

Which freeware is recommended to use for experiments and and simple
tests of designing with VHDL in Linux?

You have a look at:
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/digital.html

Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) provides you the most complete platform
for hardware engineering based on opensource software.

Chitlesh