( ESNUG 302 Item 8 ) --------------------------------------------- [10/21/98]
Subject: (ESNUG 301 #6) Exemplar Challenges Non-Compliant-To-VHDL'93 VSS
> One of our customers popped up with a problem that was so outlandish I
> scarcely believed it. We delivered them a virtual component (aka "core")
> written in VHDL RTL version 1993. After a few days they came back
> and said their VSS system could not process it because *it only comprehends
> VHDL 1987*! They were given these systems on very favorable terms by
> Synopsys as an inducement to by other Synopsys software. The customer did
> not want to use a beta version of 1993 VSS that Synopsys has for the
> obvious reasons of nervousness, and they could not switch to Model Tech
> because they were too far down the road with the rest of their system in
> VSS. Is this for real? Did Synopsys really do that to them?!?!
>
> - Frederick Hinchliffe
> Technical Data Freeway Concord, MA
From: scott.winick@exemplar.com ( Scott R. Winick )
Hello John -
I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that Exemplar Logic's Spectrum can handle
Fred's original virtual component design (in VHDL 93) and produces results
comparable (say +/- 10%) of Synopsys. In fact, I'd even like to provide
the software and/or and AE to try and do just that. Interested? Let me
know if so and what ASIC library we'd need to target.
- Scott R. Winick
EXEMPLAR LOGIC Lancaster, MA
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