Does anyone know what "SE" and "PE" stand for in ModelSim?

Pe is Personal Edition I believe. Se might be System Edition. Se is a lot more expensive than Pe.

John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Broaddown2. The Ultimate Spartan3 Development Board.

Plenty Expensive and Super Expensive!

One time I was being pitched by the local salesman and he made the mistake of trying to justify the added cost as being the expense of maintaining a second system with a higher degree of optimization. It occured to me that if I were going to sell a high priced and a low priced version of the same SW tool, the last thing I would want to do would be to have two different versions of the code! To keep my costs down I would do like the VCR vendors do, have one version of the system and with the flick of a switch (or a bit in this case) the system would be "dumbed" down. I pointed that out to him and he stopped talking about the added SW maintainance cost of the SUPER expensive version.

John Adair wrote:

I suspect "Professional Edition" and "Special Edition", since, looking at the comparison chart (compare.pdf) that can be found on the Xilinx website (or maybe the ModelSim website at

Cheers,

-James

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I received a reply from Mentor Graphics, but not from Xilinx:

---------------------------------------------- Hi James,

Here is the breakdown on the ModelSim offerings:

ModelSim SE - Special Edition ModelSim LE - Linux Edition ModelSim PE - Personal Edition

I'll work on getting these added to our product pages.

Thank you for the feedback.

Best Regards, Bill Guthrie Mentor Graphics