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

[bedros <be...@ya...>]

Tom,

are you successfully using MyHDL with aldecs VHPI? I'm
using Aldec ActiveHDL and would like to use MyHDL with
their VHPI interface. 

-Bedros

--- Jan Decaluwe <ja...@ja...> wrote:

> 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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> 
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