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13 years ago

What HDL is Altera's MegaCore Functions written in?

When I creating a MegaCore function you can choose VHDL, AHDL and Verilog but I want to know are these just wrappers around some HDL that implements the Megafunction? I've been told that all of Altera's Megafunctions are actually AHDL. Is that true?

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joe

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    All of Altera's low level stuff is AHDL (just have a look in any db folder) but more complicated IP is often just a wrapper around whatever the IP core was written in. Not all IP is developped in house at Altera, but Altera themselves tend to write new stuff now in Verilog/SV

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    13 years ago

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    Is that true?

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    No.

    Increasingly they're just written in System Verilog I believe.

    Nial
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    13 years ago

    Where did you learn that they are being written in SystemVerilog?

    Respectfully,

    joe