stevew <stevew at ka6s.com> wrote:
There is a program called Veritakwin running on
Windows that is $50 and is
many times faster (4-5X) than Icarus.
If it's for Winblows, why are you even telling me about it? It is illegal
to bring a Winblows machine across the threshold of my house.
It is a windowed environment and has a built in
wave-form viewer.
I don't want a windowed environment or a waveform viewer, I want to do
all my development from an ASR33! That's why I love Icarus Verilog, it
is 100% command line. Although unfortunately it wants "modern UNIX" and
won't build under 4.3BSD (written in C++ for a start), since it's
command line I can have it running on my Linux box and use it from my
main development VAX via rsh.
Second - the Xilinx tool is running native on Linux
but is a bit flakey for
6.0.
OK, that's good to know.
What I don't understand is - Why not use the
Synthesis tool in Webpack as
well? Why even BOTHER with Icarus for this part of the tool chain?
Because I want to, for religious reasons.
It isn't as good as Synplify - but it DOES work
most of the time??????
I don't want a good tool, I want a free one (free as in speech). Freedom
is more important than quality to me. I'll gladly settle for a design
that requires a 10 times larger FPGA than necessary and has a 10 times
lower maximum clock speed if it can be done with free-as-in-speech tools.
Good luck with your project.
Steve Wilson (Professional Verilog slinger)
Thanks,
MS, religious zealot, evangelist of Free Software and command line environment.