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Re:How to Design a New Chip on a Budget by FPGAhacker on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @01:48PM (#16326955)
I read all that as an indictment of SystemVerilog rather than of simulators.

I agree with the assessment of hw engineers doing software.

Re:How to Design a New Chip on a Budget by tails4e on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @06:09PM (#16328819)
So why has it not happened in your opinion for SV, or spice or place and route despite there being references for each of these available for in some cases decades? There are free implementations of these but in each case they don't come close to a commercial offering.