I've spent some quality time with my copy of Xilinx Foundation, and
I've got the Xilinx Virtex code generator in much better shape. I
think the synthesis for this target at least is good enough for a
0.7 release.

The same goes for the feature set throughout Icarus Verilog, so I'm
more or less starting a feature freeze and I'm looking to chase down
bugs in preparation for the release. I've got a backlog of bug
reports, but don't let that stop you from submitting more reports.

Anyhow, here is the latest snapshot:

  <ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/snapshots/verilog-20021102.tar.gz>
  <ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/snapshots/verilog-20021102.txt>

I've also got precompiled binaries for RedHat alpha and i386, as
well as the source rpm for those who want to --rebuild packages
for other targets. Get them here:

  <ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/shapshots/precompiled/>

I'll probably make a Windows binary as well in the next few days.
Stay tuned.


Release Notes for Snapshot 20021102

The big change in this snapshot has been Xilinx virtex synthesis
support. It is now much improved, and there is a new
examples/sqrt-virtex.v example that steps users through the task of
making a chip from Verilog source to routed design.

I've fixed a few named event scoping bugs. Some people reported
problems with referencing named events by hierarchical names. These
should be fixed. A few other bug related to error handling have also
been fixed.

The vvp simulation runtime lacked support for get vpiVectorVal values
in a few contexts. I fixed at least one case, get from constant
values.

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steve at icarus.com           But I have promises to keep,
steve at picturel.com         and lines to code before I sleep,
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