On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:57 -0400, Joshua Shriver wrote:
> I've been reading more on VHDL.  Anyone know of a place that can take
> a VHDL program and generate hardware based on it, at a reasonable
> price? (academic level) not for a business and in low quantities

I'm not sure what you mean by "generate hardware"?

Do you mean synthesizing into gates? If so most synthesizers have that
option.

As a free example, the Xilinx toolchain for FPGAs/CPLDs includes XST.
This will synthesize VHDL or Verilog. If you go to the place and route
section of the flow and click on properties there's an option to write
out a "simulation model" (in either VHDL or Verilog). This model will
include your synthesized code in the form of Xilinx primitives (i.e. AND
gates, buffers, inverters, D flip-flops, etc.). The simulation model
does contain "extra" stuff (i.e. tying off of parts of the FPGA you
aren't using) but you can just strip out that part of the code.

TTYL

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