First, a wee bit of history. Before Gabe Moretti was the EDA editor for EDN
magazine, Gabe worked in marketing for Veribest. In addition,
Gabe was the Chairman of VHDL Internation -- the standards body that was dedicated
to forcing as many chip designers as possible to use VHDL instead of Verilog.
For years it was quite common to be promoting VHDL at conferences and in news
stories. VHDL was his baby.
Now fast forward to today. VHDL didn't catch on, despite the predictions,
and Gabe left Veribest marketing to become the EDA editor for EDN magazine.
Fair enough. Now, unexpectly Aart de Geus, the CEO of Synopsys, publically
signs the Death Certificate for VHDL in his keynote address to DVcon'03, and
again in his keynote to SNUG'03,
and again in his
keynote to Synopsys Developers Forum
and again at the OpenVera conference:
"I saw Aart give the lunch-time talk at the OpenVera Developer's Forum
earlier today. He started by saying that it's not true that VHDL is "like
Latin", and that they would continue to support it for at least 5-10 years.
It definitely sounded like "Goodbye" to VHDL.
One of the slides he put up showed that VHDL goes away in 2003. What caught
my eye was that it also shows Vera, OVA, and PCL going away in 2004.
There were 47 people there (including Sysopsys employees & panelists). Last
year, I counted 89. It doesn't look good for Vera or VHDL."
- Dave Chapman from ESNUG 411 #6
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I write a column about what Aart says about VHDL and what does Gabe Moretti
do???
Gabe
writes a column about how clueless *I* am about the Verilog market????!!!! (Let's see...
so Aart trashes VHDL and Gabe gets mad at me. What's up with that???)
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