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16 years ago

The end of AHDL?

Hello, was wondering what people thought about Altera's decision to remove the simulator within Quartus in version 10.0? Does this mean that AHDL will eventually die? I don't know of any other simula...
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16 years ago

I haven't given AHDL a thought in almost 10 years and wouldn't have noticed the removal of the simulator in Q10.0 as I haven't used that for almost as long.

I think Altera are doing the right thing in concentrating their efforts on improving Quartus as a synthsiser and fitter rather than competing with modelsim and other simulators, especially as they give away a version of modelsim with Quartus.