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The original Modeltech (VHDL) simulator was the first mixed-language simulator capable of simulating VHDL and Verilog design entities together. In 2003, ModelSim 5.8 was the first simulator to begin supporting features of the Accellera SystemVerilog 3.0 standard. [1]
VHDL source for a signed adder. VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language that can model the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple levels of abstraction, ranging from the system level down to that of logic gates, for design entry, documentation, and verification purposes.
VHDL was developed at the behest of the United States Department of Defense's Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Program (VHSIC), and was based on the Ada programming language, and on the experience gained with the earlier development of ISPS. [10] Initially, Verilog and VHDL were used to document and simulate circuit designs already captured ...
Most high-level synthesis software is used to edit and verify code written in one of the mainstream hardware description languages (HDL) like VHDL or Verilog. Other tools instead operate at a higher level of abstraction and allow to synthesize HDL code starting from languages like Chisel or SpinalHDL .
ModelSim is a multi-language environment by Siemens [1] (previously developed by Mentor Graphics, [2]) for simulation of hardware description languages such as VHDL, Verilog and SystemC, and includes a built-in C debugger. [3] [2] ModelSim can be used independently, or in conjunction with Intel Quartus Prime, PSIM, [4] Xilinx ISE or Xilinx ...
The PLI (now VPI) enables Verilog to cooperate with other programs written in the C language such as test harnesses, instruction set simulators of a microcontroller, debuggers, and so on. For example, it provides the C functions tf_putlongp() [ 11 ] and tf_getlongp() [ 12 ] which are used to write and read the 64-bit integer argument of the ...
Register-transfer-level abstraction is used in hardware description languages (HDLs) like Verilog and VHDL to create high-level representations of a circuit, from which lower-level representations and ultimately actual wiring can be derived. Design at the RTL level is typical practice in modern digital design.
MyHDL [1] is a Python-based hardware description language (HDL). Features of MyHDL include: The ability to generate VHDL and Verilog code from a MyHDL design. [2] The ability to generate a testbench (Conversion of test benches [3]) with test vectors in VHDL or Verilog, based on complex computations in Python. The ability to convert a list of ...