Virtex-5 FX when ? (III)

No Virtex-5/FX has been, or ever will be, released.

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If you mean the Virtex-5/FXT, then that's a whole 'nother story :) Last November, I heard "soon", as in, synchronized with the next major release of ISE (10.1?)

I hope Xilinx introduces Systemverilog synthesis with ISE 10.1 -- competitor Altera has been taking the lead for so long now in that area... (whether anyone actually uses Systemverilog synthesis in a large FPGA-project, is a debate for another day...)

Well, if it's not obvious that anyone actually uses it, then why should Xilinx make the investment to provide it?

Systemverilog is mainly a simulation upgrade.

-- Mike Treseler

True enough, but then again, both Verilog and VHDL started out as 'simulation' (or documentation) languages ... now look where they are!

Mike,

While a large part of the SystemVerilog standard is dedicated to simulation upgrades, there's a large set of added design features. In fact, I'd argue that if we compare the productivity gain (for Design) from: Verilog 1995 -> Verilog2001 and Verilog 2001 -> SystemVerilog

The latter wins, hand down.

It's a shame we're still waiting for support from FPGA vendors here.

Regards,

Mark