From ff4bc5fb13a997a1d00596578b6d7deb5c0b0da6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tgingold Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:59:40 +0100 Subject: Update README --- README | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 086fde7c4..0354db12d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,16 @@ This directory contains the sources of GHDL, the VHDL simulator. +GHDL is not an interpreter: it generates machine code from your design, +the only way for high speed simulation. + +Main features are: +- handle very large designs like leon3/grlib. +- can write waveforms to a vcd or fst file. +- available on Linux (x86 and x86-64), Windows and Mac OS x +- partial support of PSL +- support OSVVM (http://osvvm.org) through the VPI interface +- support cocotb + GHDL fully supports IEEE 1076-1987, IEEE 1076-1993, IEE 1076-2002 and partially the 1076-2008 version of VHDL. -- cgit v1.2.3