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From: Timothy Stills <timothy.stills=user domain=sciatl got calm>
Subject: User Warns That Synopsys Vera VCS Support Is Complete Vaporware
Hi John.
I've sat through several Synopsys presentations where they've discussed the
migration from Verilog to System Verilog. Supposedly SystemC and Vera are
going to be supported natively in VCS 7.1. In VCS 7.0 there's a switch
called +vlite that enables a subset of the Vera language in VCS and the
story is always that they'll give you a special license to enable this,
all you have to do is ask.
Three times I've asked and three times I've had someone from Synopsys call
a few days later acting like I was high on crack because I actually wanted
to use this. Then the story became "wait for the VCS 7.1 beta and you'll
have the entire Vera language supported natively". The VCS 7.1 beta has
now arrived and lo and behold you need a special license to use Native Vera.
So again I ask for the license and now the story is that they were about
six months premature in announcing Vera support in VCS.
Basically I just want to warn people off that, unless I'm just getting the
runaround from the folks at Synopsys, Vera support in VCS is vaporware at
this point.
- Tim Stills
Scientific-Atlanta Lawrenceville, GA
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