C To HDL - Example Tools

Example Tools

• C-to-Verilog tool from www.c-to-verilog.com
• C-to HDL tool from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) with free source code from PandA website
• C-to-Verilog tool (NISC) from University of California, Irvine
• ROCCC 2.0 (free and open source C to HDL tool) from Jacquard Computing Inc.
• Altium Designer 6.9 and 7.0 (a.k.a. Summer 08) from Altium
• Nios II C-to-Hardware Acceleration Compiler from Altera
• Catapult C tool from Mentor Graphics
• Cynthesizer from Forte Design Systems
• SystemC from Celoxica (defunct)
• Handel-C from Celoxica (defunct)
• DIME-C from Nallatech
• Impulse C from Impulse Accelerated Technologies
• FpgaC which is an open source initiative
• SA-C programming language
• Cascade from Critical Blue
• Mitrion-C from Mitrionics
• C2R Compiler from Cebatech
• PICO Express from Synfora
• SPARK (a C-to-VHDL) from University Of California, San Diego
• Hardware Compile Environment (HCE) from Accelize (formerly HARWEST Compiling Environment from Ylichron)
• HercuLeS (C/assembly-to-VHDL) tool with web interface access
• VLSI/VHDL CAD Group Index of Useful Tools from CWRU University homepage
• DWARV as part of the research project Delft Work Bench and used in the hArtes tool chain
• MyHDL is a Python-subset compiler and simulator to VHDL and/or Verilog
• GHDL is a VHDL simulator and compiler capable of calling functions or procedures written in a foreign language, such as C, C++ or Ada95