( ESNUG 421 Item 8 ) -------------------------------------------- [12/10/03]

Subject: ( ESNUG 419 #3 ) Synopsys Vera VCS 7.1 Support Isn't Vaporware

> 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. ... The VCS 7.1 beta has now arrived and
> lo and behold you need a special license to use Native Vera. ...  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


From: Dhanendra Jani <djani=user  domain=tensilica spot calm>

Hi John,

Just a quick note that we do have a beta version of VCS 7.1 and the 
special license.  I have tried a few simple examples and can confirm 
that Vera support in this beta version of VCS is not complete vaporware.
I haven't been able  to steal time from my current project to try this
version with our testbench.  Hope to do that sometime next month.

    - Dhanendra Jani
      Tensilica                                  Santa Clara, CA