EDN

SIMULATION: Verilog simulator becomes open-source item

Santa Cruz, Calif. — In the 1990s, Elliot Mednick pioneered low-cost Verilog simulation. Now he's made his VeriWell simulator a free, open-source offering available through the Sourceforge Web site.
EDN

Innologic offers hierarchical Verilog simulator

SAN JOSE, Calif. — InnoLogic Systems Inc. is calling its ESP-BV the first commercial hierarchical Verilog simulator, a binary simulator that uses the company's “hierarchical compression” technology.
Business Wire

Aldec Brings Assertions to FPGA Designers with the Release of Active-HDL 8.1

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in mixed-language simulation for ASIC and FPGA devices, announced today the release of Active-HDL 8.1. The new release introduces a ...
Electronic Design

VHDL/Verilog Simulator Shows 300% Speed Improvement

The new Active-HDL 4.2 Standard Edition shows a 300% simulation speed improvement over the previous 4.1 version for both VHDL and Verilog designs. Additionally, for Verilog designs, Active-HDL 4.2 ...
Hackaday

FPGA Testbenches Made Easier

You finally finish writing the Verilog for that amazing new DSP function that will revolutionize human society and make you rich. Does it work? Your first instinct, of course, is to blow it into your ...
Electronic Design

Verilog Simulator Adds Full-Featured Coverage Analysis And A C/C++ Interface

The latest VCS Verilog simulator from Synopsys contains built-in comprehensive coverage analysis. With it, design teams using VCS 6.0.1 can determine their verification quality before tapeout.
Ars Technica

Open Source VHDL (or similar) CPU Simulation Software

Hey all, my last semester of college we had to develop the microarchitecture for a RISC processor. My group was ultimately unsuccessful (our L2 cache had some serious issues), but I wouldn't mind ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Scaling Simulation

Without functional simulation the semiconductor industry would not be where it is today, but some people in the industry contend it hasn’t received the attention and research it deserves, causing a ...