VHDL for Linux?

[Bengt T]

Which freeware is recommended to use for experiments and and simple
tests of designing with VHDL in Linux?

 

[Mike Treseler]

Which freeware is recommended to use for experiments and and simple
tests of designing with VHDL in Linux?

this one is free, but complex and incomplete:
http://ghdl.free.fr/

This looks like what you need, but it isn't quite free:
http://www.gmvhdl.com/directVHDL.html


-- Mike Treseler

 

[Pinhas]

In addition to Mike's suggestions, consider Webpack from Xilinx, which
is free (but intended to sell you Xilinx chips).
It's a 2.2GB download...

As of 10.1, the in-built simulator is starting to look like a useful
product (still a few rough edges but certainly good enough for
learning). The other tools are fine.

Only SUSE 10 and RHEL (4 I think) officially supported, and only 32-bit
for the free Webpack, but I've been using it under SUSE 11 (64 bit with
the 32-bit compatibility libs) without trouble. I've also installed
under Fedora 8, (32 bit) successfully, once I realised you had to turn
SELinux off before running the installer...

- Brian

I work a lot with http://ghdl.free.fr/
It compiles well a complex design such as LEON processor:
I2C master connected and tested with LEON Processor
http://bknpk.no-ip.biz/I2C/leon_2.html

 

[Petter Gustad]

I work a lot with http://ghdl.free.fr/

I had problems compiling the Altera libraries with ghdl some time ago.
Did anybody have any success using ghdl with the Altera libraries?

Petter

 

[d_s_klein]

I may be top-posting, but at least I'm not hijacking (and killing)
threads.

BTW, GHDL does work for specific Altera primitives; every one that
I've tried, that is.

 

[Clunixchit]

Which freeware is recommended to use for experiments and and simple
tests of designing with VHDL in Linux?

You have a look at:
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/digital.html

Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) provides you the most complete platform
for hardware engineering based on opensource software.

Chitlesh