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What HDL is Altera's MegaCore Functions written in?

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When I creating a MegaCore function you can choose VHDL, AHDL and Verilog but I want to know are these just wrappers around some HDL that implements the Megafunction? I've been told that all of Altera's Megafunctions are actually AHDL. Is that true? 

 

thanks, 

joe
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Altera_Forum
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All of Altera's low level stuff is AHDL (just have a look in any db folder) but more complicated IP is often just a wrapper around whatever the IP core was written in. Not all IP is developped in house at Altera, but Altera themselves tend to write new stuff now in Verilog/SV

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Is that true? 

 

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No. 

 

Increasingly they're just written in System Verilog I believe. 

 

Nial
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Where did you learn that they are being written in SystemVerilog? 

 

Respectfully, 

joe
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