FPGA Development

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AMD Vivado ML Edition

Comprehensive IP-centric and system-centric development environment for next generation all programmable devices.

A complete IDE for synthesis, implementation, and analysis of FPGA designs, with a focus on machine learning.

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Intel Quartus Prime

A powerful, integrated design environment built to scale with your FPGA designs.

Intel's primary software for designing with their FPGAs, SoCs, and CPLDs, from design entry to optimization.

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Lattice Diamond

Leading-edge design and implementation software for Lattice FPGAs.

An integrated design environment for developing applications using Lattice's low-power FPGAs.

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Microchip Libero SoC Design Suite

Comprehensive, easy-to-learn, easy-to-adopt development tools for designing with Microchip FPGAs.

An integrated design suite for Microchip's FPGAs and SoC FPGAs, focusing on security and reliability.

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Siemens ModelSim

The industry-leading simulator for VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog.

A multi-language HDL simulation environment for ASIC and FPGA design verification.

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Synopsys Synplify Pro

The industry standard for producing high-performance, cost-effective FPGA designs.

A high-performance logic synthesis tool that optimizes RTL code for FPGA architectures.

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Aldec Active-HDL

An integrated FPGA Design Creation and Simulation solution for team-based environments.

A Windows-based IDE for FPGA design, featuring a mixed-language simulator and graphical design tools.

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Aldec Riviera-PRO

A high-performance verification platform for FPGAs, ASICs, and SoCs.

An advanced simulation and verification tool for large-scale FPGA and ASIC designs.

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Gowin EDA (YunYuan)

An easy-to-use integrated design environment for Gowin FPGAs.

The official IDE for designing with Gowin's portfolio of FPGA devices, providing a complete one-stop solution.

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Cocotb

A coroutine-based cosimulation testbench environment for verifying VHDL and SystemVerilog RTL using Python.

An open-source framework for writing hardware testbenches in Python instead of traditional HDLs.

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Verilator

The fastest free Verilog HDL simulator.

An open-source tool that compiles Verilog/SystemVerilog into a multithreaded C++/SystemC model for fast simulation.

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Yosys

A framework for Verilog RTL synthesis.

An open-source synthesis tool that converts Verilog/SystemVerilog designs into various target netlist formats.

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nextpnr

A vendor-neutral, timing-driven, open-source FPGA place and route tool.

An open-source place and route tool that works with Yosys to create complete open-source FPGA toolchains.

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GHDL

The open-source VHDL simulator.

A robust, open-source compiler and simulator for the VHDL language.

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Icarus Verilog

A Verilog simulation and synthesis tool.

A long-standing open-source compiler and interpreted simulator for the Verilog language.

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Sigasi Studio

The Intelligent Development Environment for VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog.

An Eclipse-based IDE that provides real-time code checking, navigation, and formatting for HDL languages.

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Efinix Efinity IDE

The all-in-one software suite for Efinix FPGAs.

An integrated development environment for designing with Efinix's Trion and Titanium FPGA families.

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Achronix ACE (Achronix CAD Environment)

Achronix CAD Environment for High-Performance FPGAs.

A complete design suite for Achronix's high-performance Speedster FPGAs and Speedcore eFPGA IP.

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QuickLogic Aurora

Open Source FPGA Development Tools.

A suite of open-source tools for developing with QuickLogic's eFPGA IP and ultra-low-power FPGAs.

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