[myhdl-list] Re: Feedback request on decorators in MyHDL

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Tom Dillon wrote:
> Jan,
> 
> We use Aldec Riviera with MyHDL. It works great.
> 
> Also, Riviera supports VHPI.
> 
> You can get an evaluation version of Riviera if that helps to get the 
> VHDL support done.
> 
> One thought on VHDL support, we (and I'm sure there are others) would 
> like to help write the toVHDL module. My problem is I don't know where 
> to start or what really needs to be done. What could be used from 
> toVerilog and so on.
> 
> Maybe we could figure out how to break the design up into some pieces 
> that a few of us could tackle to get toVHDL done?
> 
> Unfortunately (my opinion) VHDL is very popular in FPGA designs and I 
> would say 75% of our clients either prefer or require we deliver VHDL.

Really? I'm starting to like this FPGA market more and more! What about
the international correlation (you know, the cliche Europe=VHDL,
US=Verilog)?

For the record, I like VHDL - in the past I have co-builded a company
based on it. Fundamentally, MyHDL is mainly inspired by VHDL - not
Verilog. I'm just disappointed with the way VHDL has been (mal)treated
by major EDA vendors. So I'm happy to hear that it's not dead.

Of course, we all know that VHDL is rather inflexible. So, there seems
to be large opportunity for MyHDL here: VHDL users will recognize the
concepts, but get an unrivaled flexibility.

On toVHDL: it seems about time that I dump my current thoughts on
this, but I'll do that in another thread.

Jan

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