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Free Tools

  » Xilinx™ WebPack.
  » Jim Wu's Advanced Debugging, Editing & Pinout Tool (ADEPT).
  » NotePad++, free text editor for Windows.
  » PSPad, free text editor for Windows.
  » SourceEdit, excellent free text editor.
  » jEdit, another good free text editor.
  » The free Scriptum text editor is specifically aimed at HDL designers.
  » FPGA Converter converts FPGA binary programming file into "C code".

Free IP Cores

  » Xilinx: XAUI interface.
  » ASIC.ws: Wide range of free IP cores.
  » Finger Lakes Engineering: PLB cores for MicroBlaze & PowerPC.
  » Oregano: Free 8051 core.
  » OpenCores: All sorts of free IP cores.
  » Doulos: Example VHDL designs.
  » Gaisler Research: LEON3 SPARC v8 compatible processor.
  » Green Mountain: Free HC11 CPU core.

Commercial IP Cores

  » ASIC.ws: also supply commercial cores.
  » 4i2i: Video and communications IP.
  » Aldec.
  » Alma Techologies: Image compression cores.
  » CAST: Wide range cores for all applications.
  » Condor Engineering: Cores for military applications (MIL-STD-1553, MMSI).
  » Digital Design Corporation: Video, communications & bus interfaces.
  » Dillon Engineering: Very fast & Ultra-long FFTs.
  » Eureka Technologies: System-on-Chip & embedded processing specialists.
  » Evatronix: System-on-Chip specialists, 8051, Z80.
  » Atra Vision: Digital camera & CMOS sensor interfacing.
  » Digital Core Design: Processor, peripherals, floating-point.
  » Ocean Logic.
  » Millogic design: VME, PCI-X.
  » Oregano Systems: IEEE1588.
  » Intrinsix: VGA/SVGA cores.
  » Sital: MIL-STD-1553 core.
  » Northwest Logic: PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express, memory controllers.
  » Xylon LogicBricks: Graphics accelerator & Display Controller, CAN controller.
  » Bitsim: Graphics accelerator & Display Controller.
  » ModelWare: Mainly communication cores.
  » Amphion: Now part of Connexant.
  » RF Engines: Military Signal Processing — FFTs, Down Converters, Rate Conversion, NCOs, Filters.
  » Pentek: Military Signal Processing — cores for radar and SDR applications.
  » Helion Tech: Encryption & Data security — AES, 3-DES, Hashing, IPSec, Public Key encryption.

Simulation Models

  » Micron: Simulation models for most memory products are available.
  » Spansion provide simulation models for their flash devices.
  » FMF: Free Model Foundry.