Free EDAs for VLSI/FPGA design/verification Engineers, especially for beginners

[sky_siliconthink]

That’s edaplayground, provided by DOULOS.
For Verilog/SV/UVM sim, you can run both free (Icarus) and commercial tools (questasim, vcs, xcelium) for free.
You can also do FPGA synthesis to try:
Test whether your code is synthesizable;
Try the STA commands in real tools and check the usage;
Estimate the area of your design;
Estimate timing (maximal frequency) of your design;

The commercial synthesis tool is Precision from Siemens(Mentor Graphics).
Here is a simple but instructive example:
https://www.edaplayground.com/x/u8GF
PS: to run some commercial tools, you need an E-mail of enterprise/ institution.

Many thanks to DOULOS and wish you have fun with it.

If you want to go deep with STA, you can try this link:
https://www.udemy.com/course/digita...-synthesis/?referralCode=F99007C1E5B740E11E03

 

[dpaul]

What is the question, what are you trying to solve?

In this sub-forum, for years, members post their questions/problems!

 

[fffish]

What is the question, what are you trying to solve?

In this sub-forum, for years, members post their questions/problems!

It do helps me. As a beginner, I'm searching for free synthesis tool to check whether my code is synthesizable.

 

[dpaul]

It do helps me. As a beginner, I'm searching for free synthesis tool to check whether my code is synthesizable.

I agree, just my 2 cents ..... after 6 m this thread will go down and some other newbie will be looking for such solutions again!
We do not have the concept of "sticky threads" in this forum.

 

[BradtheRad]

The forum search routine has improved over the years. You can look for 'free' and 'synthesis' and synthesizable. Try alternate spellings too. (And misspellings as are likely on tiny touchscreens.)

Start by clicking magnifying glass icon at top right of any Edaboard page.

 

[dpaul]

The forum search routine has improved over the years. You can look for 'free' and 'synthesis' and synthesizable. Try alternate spellings too. (And misspellings as are likely on tiny touchscreens.)

Start by clicking magnifying glass icon at top right of any Edaboard page.

Do you know what is the problem with the new generation? (Except a few ) They do not want to put effort in searching and finding out answers.
They expect answers to be made available to them fast, to the point and how they like it (I can give examples of various EDA board newbie posts to support this claim of mine)!