Icarus Verilog projects in academic; was Re: gEDA-dev: Google summer of code

[Günter Dannoritzer]

Aanjhan R wrote:>
[...]
> I do a lot of speaking at Floss Events conducted at Universities in
> India and the Elec guys are very much interested in using and
> contributing to Icarus Verilog. I have a TO DO list form Steve himself
> and there are students working on it. Though the results are very
> slow, thats understandable with the amount of Academics involved in
> Indian Institutions. But neverthless a couple of Univs atleast have
> switched to using ICarus Verilog for most of their Academic work.
> Cheers to Steve.
[...]

That is great to hear Aanjhan.

I get the feeling that one problem with a hardware simulator like Icarus
is that actually Electrical Engineering students would use it and
Computer Science students would develop or extend it.

>From that split it might be difficult to encourage people to work on it.
I mean it is probably simple to get some Computer Science professor
hooked to an xy language compiler and have him run projects that speed
it up or add features. But an EE professor wants to get some logic
designs going and not spend time on developing the tools.

Cheers,

Guenter