Synthesizing .vhdl files

Brad Beckmann
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1/25/00


Preface

Well you might have heard that Mentor's vhdl synthesizing tool doesn't work or is extremely buggy.  From what I've been told that is true about their old synthesizing tool, but it is not true with the new and powerful LEONARDO SYNTHESIZER.  In true corporate America fashion, Mentor bought a company call Exemplar who developed a working vhdl synthesizer.  Now Mentor is equiped with at great synthesizer and VLSI designers are fearing that they will be replaced soon.
 
 

Optimizing using Leonardo

EDIF to EDDM Conversion


Once we have our vhdl file synthesized, we can look at it's layout.  Go to the next tutorial on IC.