Tuukka said:
Yes, Savant. I have used it succesfully. Works quite nicely
if your code is bug-free, but if there are bugs, the symptoms
may be misleading (like segmentation fault...).
Yes, well I had seen Savant but it looks pretty much outdated and not
really maintained anymore. That would be a big no for me...
Besides, I just tried compiling it and it requires very old libraries
(from 1995) that don't even compile on my system. Oh well...
Last time I tried, FreeHDL was quite incomplete and Savant much better.
But that was couple of years ago.
Ok thanks. I have been able to compile FreeHDL and run some tests but
not enough for now to tell whether it is good or not. It doesn't seem
very actively maintained either...
As I have heard, GHDL is good, but I haven't tried it myself.
I've heard it lacked in some areas... but it may be the better tool
for now, yes.
I'm surprised that with initiatives like "Opencores" and the like,
there is no open tool that is really usable. On the "Opencores" site,
they do mention that they are in constant need of commercial tools.
Sounds like there would be a real need for a good open-source VHDL
tool...