Are there limitations on the third party tools included with WebPACK, and if so, what are they?
These tools are starter versions offered by third party vendors such as Model Technology Inc. and Visual Software Solutions. The scaled down versions demonstrate the capabilities of their software and provide an indication of whether the full scale tool would be useful for the designer. The limits for ModelSim Xilinx Starter Edition are 500 lines of debuggable code. Beyond this limit, the processing begins to slow down, but does not stop. The usefulness of this software is going to depend on coding style and type of simulation (either functional or timing) that is desired. Visual Software Solutions tools comprised of StateCAD and HDL Bencher follow the limits below: Unregistered —————— StateCAD: 6 states, 16 transitions, 2 logic equations Bencher: 12 signal assignments, 6 ports, max bus width (port) 8 bits Registered —————— StateCAD: 10 states, 20 transitions, 8 logic equations Bencher limit is 21 assignments (other limits dropped) HDL Bencher and StateCAD may b
