( ESNUG 329 Item 4 ) --------------------------------------------- [9/22/99]

Subject: ( ESNUG 325 #5 )  Beware Of Verilog Uselib!  Linking Takes HOURS!

>      The first problem I had was that Verilog-XL would try to build the
> support ASIC out of vendor A's library components instead of vendor B's
> library. I was able to solve this problem using the `uselib directive ...
>
>     - Greg Arena
>       Dialogic Corporation                     Parsippany, NJ


From: "Paul.Zimmer" <paul.zimmer@cerent.com>

Beware of uselib.  We were using it for a while, then discovered that
it made the linking take HOURS during gate simulations (as opposed to
minutes for good-ol' -y).  My guess is that uselib was causing us to
troll through the whole search path every time XL had to link a module.

    - Paul Zimmer
      Cerent Corp.



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