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16 years ago

Quartus 10.0 and the support for Altera's AHDL

Hello, now that Altera has removed the simulator within Quartus 10.0 what is left in Quartus to support AHDL? Is there a third party simulator that supports AHDL? I'm a believer that with Quartus 10...
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16 years ago

You can imagine that transitioning away from a language is difficult for Altera to do. Imagine what the uproar would be if Altera just suddenly dropped synthesis support for the language. At this point, users can still upgrade their existing AHDL designs to 10.0; they just can't simulate them easily. This should begin to nudge people in the direction of picking an industry standard HDL language. The day may come when AHDL support is dropped entirely.

AHDL filled an important gap for Altera during those years where industry and public support for VHDL and Verilog was maturing. The world no longer needs the language.

Jake