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From: J.Gill.Watt.II@dartmouth.edu (J. Gill Watt II)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl
Subject: Public Domain VHDL debugger/tester ???
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Keywords: Public Domain, VHDL, Debugger
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.002503.15690@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 00:25:03 GMT
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howdy,

At the moment, we write VHDL models for parts, compile them and then
test them by simulating ( WorkVIEW ViewSIM ) the part.  This is 
very slow and tedious.  I was wondering if someone made a VHDL
source level debugger that we could use to verify that the code
was functioning properly before trying to simulate the part.

I am more interested in something in the public domain (i.e. free), 
but would also like information on commercial packages.  

Does such a beast exist or am I just dreaming?

Thank you.

-Gill

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