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Subject: ( ESNUG 321 #3 ) Well, We're Quite Happy With Veritools' HDLlint
> [ Editor's Note: This price gouging of charging $47K for interHDL's/
> Avant!'s VeriLint may spur a real search for alternatives. The tool
> that comes to mind for me is 'HDL LINT' from Veritools. 'HDL LINT'
> sells for $3K a copy (and gets cheaper if you buy more copies) and is
> said to run 700-800 lint checks. It has *no* cheesy usage timers
> involved. Plus it has a Perl interface so users can customize it and
> do style checking. (See http://www.veritools-web.com ) My question
> is "has anyone used 'HDL LINT'? Is it a viable alternative?" - John ]
From: "Gareth O'Loughlin" <goloughlin@extremepacket.com>
Hi John,
Love your show ...
We evaluated Veritools' (http://www.veritools.com) HDLlint tool a few months
back. We were impressed and purchased a seat. The tool is a command line
program that lints Verilog code. They claim to do 100% of all the checks
Verilint does (overpriced tool from Avanti, originally from interHDL).
Veritools is offering their lint tool at a reasonable price compared with
other alternatives. Despite being a new tool, HDLlint is very usable. The
tool can even provide output that is parsable by Emacs. This allows you to
do an interactive debug -- you can click on a line error reported by HDLlint
in an Emacs buffer and the source file will pop up in another buffer with
the cursor at the offending line. For now we also have a very simple
wrapper to make the output from their tool look a little nicer for Emacs.
We expect that Veritools will have some more improvements moving forward.
So far we have found them to be very prompt in responding to any suggestions
we have made.
- Gareth O'Loughlin, Design Engineer
Extreme Packet Devices Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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