Hello,
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:01:48PM -0500, Mark wrote:
> You're entitled to your opinion, but I encourage others to try out the 
> software and form their own.  I've found it perfectly adequate for my SoC 
> designs & research.  It's used by another research group at my university 
> for multi-FPGA molecular dynamics simulations.  I was just talking with a 
> guy yesterday who's doing 600MHz DSP designs for V5 with ISE.

Hmm.. maybe those are hardware/EE guys? I always get told that nobody
else tries to use highlevel-constructs like I do (and using VHDL, maybe
support for that is a bit worse).

> Language support is a sore spot in the current release, but it's being 
> worked on.  Even so, I think it's fair to say that syntactic issues should 
> be caught long before synthesis.  ModelSim XE would catch these issues and 
> I don't doubt that Icarus would too.  It's not ideal and I admit that, but 
> it's not an unreasonable workaround since it's inadvisable to synthesize 
> HDL without simulating it first anyhow.

Note that ModelSim is not available here for the mere Students (well, at
least not by default) so I am using ISE's own simulator (maybe I should
note here, this is really a nice feature, for a beginner at least it is
much more comfortable to use than ModelSim).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger
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