Active HDL versus VHDL '93

[Marc Horemans]

Hi,
can anyone tell me what the difference is between Aldec Active HDL and VHDL
?

Marc

 

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Von Marc Horemans:

Hi,
can anyone tell me what the difference is between Aldec Active HDL and
VHDL ?

AFAIK the first is a program (that also understands VHDL), the second is
a hardware description language.

Eike

 

[Mariusz]

Von Marc Horemans:


AFAIK the first is a program (that also understands VHDL), the second is
a hardware description language.

Eike

There was Active-VHDL from Aldec first. Then Verilog has been added and
the name of tool has been changed to Active-HDL back in 1999.
Now it supports VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog and SystemC.

Mariusz

 

[Andy Peters]

Hi,
can anyone tell me what the difference is between Aldec Active HDL and VHDL

Aldec Active HDL is a software tool.

VHDL is a language.

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