GHDL and the economy of EDA FOSS

• Speaker: Tristan Gingold
• email: tgingold@free.fr

Abstract

The talk will be split into 3 parts:

• A presentation of GHDL, an open-source VHDL simulator. Main features, architecture, short history and purpose
• The future of GHDL. This conference is a good place to discuss about how a project can help another one. In particular which features are expected from other projects.
• My own experience about the economy of EDA FOSS. Why is it difficult to built a FOSS ecosystem? What kind of EDA FOSS do we want ?

Downloads

• Slides
• Video recording

Software

General information

• Repository: https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl
• Main documentation website: https://ghdl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL
• Wiki page on wiki.f-si.org: https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/XXX-YYY-ZZZ
• The software has been used in the following projects: PoC, VUnit, edaplayground.com

Roadmap

• This subject will be discussed during the presentation.
• The project seeks help on: ... many aspects. Contributions are always welcome.