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RE: [oc] Design Question



How do I get those "free (beer) ones" ?

Thanks, Wen

		-----Original Message-----
		From: owner-cores@opencores.org@ROCKWELLCOLLINS On Behalf Of
John Sheahan <jrsheahan@optushome.com.au>
		Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 3:29 AM
		To: cores@opencores.org
		Subject: Re: [oc] Design Question

		On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:40:21AM +0100, Richard Herveille
wrote:
		> > * The IP core I found is in Verilog but I am going to
use vhdl language
		> > for my design files. Does it matter whether IP core is
in verilog and rest
		> > of my application files are in VHDL?. Is there any
design constrains,
		> > pros. and cons. regarding this issue?
		>
		> Not really, most synthesis tools can handle mixed-language
designs. There
		> might be a few minor issues. For example Verilog allows a
signal name to end
		> with a '_', VHDL pukes on this. However these issues
should be simple to
		> resolve.

		Depends also on what the synthesis tool license is. The free
(beer) ones are
		a lot more flexible than the commercial licenses here.
wierd.
		john
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