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.. Copyright 2003-2022 by Wilson Snyder.
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only OR Artistic-2.0
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Contributors and Origins
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Authors
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When possible, please instead report bugs at `Verilator Issues
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<https://verilator.org/issues>`_.
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Primary author is Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>.
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Major concepts by Paul Wasson, Duane Galbi, John Coiner, Geza Lore, Yutetsu
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Takatsukasa, and Jie Xu.
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Contributors
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============
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Many people have provided ideas and other assistance with Verilator.
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Verilator is receiving major development support from the `CHIPS Alliance
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<https://chipsalliance.org>`_ and `Shunyao CAD <https://shunyaocad.com>`_.
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Previous major corporate sponsors of Verilator, by providing significant
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contributions of time or funds included include: Atmel Corporation, Cavium
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Inc., Compaq Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Embecosm Ltd.,
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Hicamp Systems, Intel Corporation, Mindspeed Technologies Inc., MicroTune
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Inc., picoChip Designs Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc., Nauticus Networks Inc.,
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SiCortex Inc, and Shunyao CAD.
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The people who have contributed major functionality are: Byron Bradley,
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Jeremy Bennett, Lane Brooks, John Coiner, Duane Galbi, Geza Lore, Todd
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Strader, Stefan Wallentowitz, Paul Wasson, Jie Xu, and Wilson Snyder.
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Major testers included Jeff Dutton, Jonathon Donaldson, Ralf Karge, David
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Hewson, Iztok Jeras, Wim Michiels, Alex Solomatnikov, Sebastien Van
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Cauwenberghe, Gene Weber, and Clifford Wolf.
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Some of the people who have provided ideas, and feedback for Verilator
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include: David Addison, Nikana Anastasiadis, Vasu Arasanipalai, Jens Arm,
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Tariq B. Ahmad, Sharad Bagri, Matthew Ballance, Andrew Bardsley, Matthew
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Barr, Geoff Barrett, Kaleb Barrett, Julius Baxter, Jeremy Bennett, Michael
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Berman, Jean Berniolles, Victor Besyakov, Moinak Bhattacharyya, Krzysztof
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Bieganski, David Binderman, Piotr Binkowski, Johan Bjork, David Black,
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Tymoteusz Blazejczyk, Daniel Bone, Morten Borup Petersen, Gregg Bouchard,
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Christopher Boumenot, Nick Bowler, Byron Bradley, Bryan Brady, Charlie
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Brej, J Briquet, Lane Brooks, John Brownlee, Jeff Bush, Lawrence Butcher,
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Tony Bybell, Iru Cai, Ted Campbell, Chris Candler, Lauren Carlson, Donal
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Casey, Alex Chadwick, Terry Chen, Yi-Chung Chen, Enzo Chi, Robert A. Clark,
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Ryan Clarke, Allan Cochrane, John Coiner, Gianfranco Costamagna, Sean
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Cross, George Cuan, Joe DErrico, Lukasz Dalek, Gunter Dannoritzer, Ashutosh
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Das, Maarten De Braekeleer, Bernard Deadman, Alberto Del Rio, John Demme,
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Mike Denio, John Deroo, Philip Derrick, John Dickol, Ruben Diez, Danny
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Ding, Jacko Dirks, Ivan Djordjevic, Jonathon Donaldson, Sebastian Dressler,
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Alex Duller, Jeff Dutton, Tomas Dzetkulic, Richard E George, Edgar
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E. Iglesias, Usuario Eda, Charles Eddleston, Chandan Egbert, Jan Egil Ruud,
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Joe Eiler, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy, Trevor Elbourne, Mats Engstrom, Charles Eric
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LaForest, Robert Farrell, Eugen Fekete, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Udi Finkelstein,
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Brian Flachs, Andrea Foletto, Bob Fredieu, Duane Galbi, Benjamin Gartner,
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Christian Gelinek, Peter Gerst, Glen Gibb, Michael Gielda, Barbara Gigerl,
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Shankar Giri, Dan Gisselquist, Petr Gladkikh, Sam Gladstone, Andrew
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Goessling, Amir Gonnen, Chitlesh Goorah, Tomasz Gorochowik, Kai Gossner,
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Sergi Granell, Al Grant, Alexander Grobman, Xuan Guo, Driss Hafdi, Neil
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Hamilton, James Hanlon, Oyvind Harboe, Jannis Harder, Junji Hashimoto,
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Thomas Hawkins, Mitch Hayenga, Harald Heckmann, Robert Henry, Stephen
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Henry, David Hewson, Jamey Hicks, Joel Holdsworth, Andrew Holme, Hiroki
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Honda, Alex Hornung, Pierre-Henri Horrein, David Horton, Peter Horvath, Jae
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Hossell, Kuoping Hsu, Alan Hunter, James Hutchinson, Anderson Ignacio da
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Silva, Jamie Iles, Thomas J Whatson, Ben Jackson, Mark Jackson Pulver,
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Shareef Jalloq, Marlon James, Krzysztof Jankowski, HyungKi Jeong, Iztok
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Jeras, James Johnson, Christophe Joly, Franck Jullien, James Jung, Mike
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Kagen, Arthur Kahlich, Kaalia Kahn, Guy-Armand Kamendje, Vasu Kandadi,
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Kanad Kanhere, Patricio Kaplan, Pieter Kapsenberg, Rafal Kapuscik, Ralf
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Karge, Dan Katz, Sol Katzman, Ian Kennedy, Michael Killough, Jonathan
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Kimmitt, Olof Kindgren, Kevin Kiningham, Dan Kirkham, Sobhan Klnv, Gernot
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Koch, Jack Koenig, Soon Koh, Nathan Kohagen, Steve Kolecki, Brett Koonce,
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Will Korteland, Wojciech Koszek, Varun Koyyalagunta, Markus Krause, David
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Kravitz, Roland Kruse, Andreas Kuster, Sergey Kvachonok, Ed Lander, Steve
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Lang, Stephane Laurent, Walter Lavino, Christian Leber, Larry Lee, Igor
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Lesik, John Li, Eivind Liland, Charlie Lind, Andrew Ling, Jiuyang Liu, Paul
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Liu, Derek Lockhart, Jake Longo, Geza Lore, Arthur Low, Stefan Ludwig, Dan
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Lussier, Fred Ma, Duraid Madina, Odd Magne Reitan, Affe Mao, Julien
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Margetts, Mark Marshall, Alfonso Martinez, Unai Martinez-Corral, Yves
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Mathieu, Patrick Maupin, Conor McCullough, Jason McMullan, Elliot Mednick,
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Wim Michiels, Miodrag Milanovic, Peter Monsson, Sean Moore, Dennis
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Muhlestein, John Murphy, Matt Myers, Nathan Myers, Richard Myers, Dimitris
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Nalbantis, Peter Nelson, Bob Newgard, Paul Nitza, Yossi Nivin, Pete Nixon,
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Lisa Noack, Mark Nodine, Kuba Ober, Andreas Olofsson, Baltazar Ortiz,
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Aleksander Osman, Don Owen, James Pallister, Vassilis Papaefstathiou, Brad
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Parker, Dan Petrisko, Maciej Piechotka, David Pierce, Cody Piersall,
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Dominic Plunkett, David Poole, Mike Popoloski, Roman Popov, Rich Porter,
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Niranjan Prabhu, Usha Priyadharshini, Prateek Puri, Marshal Qiao, Nandu
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Raj, Danilo Ramos, Chris Randall, Anton Rapp, Josh Redford, Frederic
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Requin, Dustin Richmond, Samuel Riedel, Eric Rippey, Oleg Rodionov, Ludwig
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Rogiers, Paul Rolfe, Arjen Roodselaar, Tobias Rosenkranz, Huang Rui, Denis
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Rystsov, John Sanguinetti, Galen Seitz, Joseph Shaker, Salman Sheikh, Yu
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Sheng Lin, Hao Shi, Mike Shinkarovsky, Rafael Shirakawa, Jeffrey Short, Fan
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Shupei, Rodney Sinclair, Steven Slatter, Brian Small, Garrett Smith, Tim
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Snyder, Wilson Snyder, Maciej Sobkowski, Stan Sokorac, Alex Solomatnikov,
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Wei Song, Art Stamness, David Stanford, John Stevenson, Pete Stevenson,
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Patrick Stewart, Rob Stoddard, Todd Strader, John Stroebel, Sven Stucki,
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Howard Su, Emerson Suguimoto, Gene Sullivan, Wai Sum Mong, Qingyao Sun,
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Renga Sundararajan, Rupert Swarbrick, Yutetsu Takatsukasa, Thierry Tambe,
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Drew Taussig, Peter Tengstrand, Wesley Terpstra, Rui Terra, Stefan Thiede,
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Gary Thomas, Ian Thompson, Kevin Thompson, Mike Thyer, Hans Tichelaar,
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Viktor Tomov, Steve Tong, Alex Torregrosa, Michael Tresidder, David Turner,
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Neil Turton, Cong Van Nguyen, Hans Van Antwerpen, Jan Van Winkel, Sebastien
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Van Cauwenberghe, Laurens van Dam, Leendert van Doorn, Srini Vemuri, Yuri
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Victorovich, Bogdan Vukobratovic, Holger Waechtler, Philipp Wagner, Stefan
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Wallentowitz, Shawn Wang, Paul Wasson, Greg Waters, Thomas Watts, Eugene
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Weber, David Welch, Martin Whitaker, Marco Widmer, Leon Wildman, Daniel
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Wilkerson, Gerald Williams, Trevor Williams, Jeff Winston, Joshua Wise,
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Clifford Wolf, Tobias Wolfel, Johan Wouters, Paul Wright, Junyi Xi, Ding
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Xiaoliang, Jie Xu, Mandy Xu, Yinan Xu, Luke Yang, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, and
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Keyi Zhang.
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Thanks to them, and all those we've missed including above, or wished to
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remain anonymous.
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Historical Origins
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Verilator was conceived in 1994 by Paul Wasson at the Core Logic Group at
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Digital Equipment Corporation. The Verilog code that was converted to C
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was then merged with a C based CPU model of the Alpha processor and
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simulated in a C based environment called CCLI.
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In 1995 Verilator started being used also for Multimedia and Network
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Processor development inside Digital. Duane Galbi took over active
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development of Verilator, and added several performance enhancements. CCLI
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was still being used as the shell.
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In 1998, through the efforts of existing DECies, mainly Duane Galbi,
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Digital graciously agreed to release the source code. (Subject to the code
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not being resold, which is compatible with the GNU Public License.)
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In 2001, Wilson Snyder took the kit, and added a SystemC mode, and called
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it Verilator2. This was the first packaged public release.
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In 2002, Wilson Snyder created Verilator 3.000 by rewriting Verilator from
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scratch in C++. This added many optimizations, yielding about a 2-5x
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performance gain.
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In 2009, major SystemVerilog and DPI language support was added.
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In 2018, Verilator 4.000 was released with multithreaded support.
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In 2019, Verilator joined the `CHIPS Alliance
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<https://chipsalliance.org>`_.
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In 2022, Verilator 5.000 was released with IEEE scheduling semantics
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and other improvements.
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Currently, various language features and performance enhancements are added
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as the need arises. Verilator is now about 3x faster than in 2002, and is
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faster than most (if not every) other simulator.
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