Re: [oc] Design Question

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan@optushome.com.au>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:44:51AM -0800, Ho, Wen Jei      x4297 wrote:

I had the xilinx/altera webpack/leonardo type items in mind.
The free(beer) ones usually read both languages.

Licensed synthesis tools tend to licnese the language reader too -
which stops them being language neutral (unless both labguage front
ends are purchased)

Does depend on what the target technology is though.
john


> How do I get those "free (beer) ones" ?
> 		>
> 		> Not really, most synthesis tools can handle mixed-language
> designs. There
> 		> might be a few minor issues. For example Verilog allows a
> signal name to end
> 		> with a '_', VHDL pukes on this. However these issues
> should be simple to
> 		> resolve.
> 
> 		Depends also on what the synthesis tool license is. The free
> (beer) ones are
> 		a lot more flexible than the commercial licenses here.
> wierd.
> 		john
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