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VHDL compiler and simulator

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2016-07-27 · latest 2025-07-07

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  1. There is mature GHDL https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl and rather new NVC https://github.com/nickg/nvc .
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    NVC: VHDL Compiler and Simulator
    story by eulgro · 2025-05-07 · 2 comments
  3. …compiler tries to make the gate to gate timing work on its own). Open source variants exist. I like https://github.com/nickg/nvc.git . In includes a compiler (from VHDL) and simulator. You can have nvc generate waveform outputs and look at…
    comment by dannymi · 2022-08-02 · in Parallel Programming for FPGAs
  4. nvc (LLVM based) is also impressively complete for the number of people who have worked on it. https://github.com/nickg/nvc