Re: which commercial HDL-Simulator for FPGA?

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:53:44 +0000, Joseph H Allen wrote:

> In article <485BC40E.3020008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Mike Treseler 
> <mtreseler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>General Schvantzkopf wrote:
>>
>>> The Altera ModelSim is dog slow which is to be expected, I'm sure that
>>> Mentor has deliberately crippled it.
>>> 
>>> NC, Linux				0:06:34
>>> Questa, Linux				0:07:15
>>> Questa, XP				0:18:14
>>> Altera ModelSim, Linux			1:00:13
>>
>>
>>Thanks for taking the time to run the test and for sharing the results.
>>Interesting that speed is roughly pro****tional to the cost of the
>>license.
>>
>>While the oem version is "dog slow" in this lineup, it is still quite
>>useful for debugging rtl when all the licenses are checked out.
>>
>>  -- Mike Treseler
> 
> It would be interesting to see Icarus in this list.  Also Verilator...

I haven't been able to get Icarus to work, it's not complete enough to 
run any of our testbenches. We aren't doing anything fancy, in fact all 
of our code is strict Verilog 95 it's not even 2001.