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

SE has more features. I sure wish organizations would include glossaries or acronym pages or FAQs to explain their acronyms. I complained directly today via both the Xilinx and the ModelSim websites about that. DUANWKWYM*.

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