Programming VHDL on Linux?

Question

Anyone knows good environment to program VHDL and simulate it (don't matter Xilinx or Altera) using Linux?

Answer 1

You're stuck with either vendors tools, which are spotty at best on Linux (though my experience with Alteras utilities are somewhat better than with ISE).

However, if all you want to do is run your testbed, not actually synthesize anything, ghdl will be of use.

Answer 2

As mentioned by Arpan (almost) every VHDL simulator is supported by Linux, but they are usually very expensive. Your best shot would be to use one of the following:

• Altera DS Web edition (Linux support has just been added) which comes with a free version of ModelSim.
• Symphony EDA Sonata 3.1 is available as a free version with limited support.
• Xilinx ISE which comes with Xilinxs own simulator: ISim.