Mac

Setting Sigasi as the default VHDL editor on Mac

Posted Wed, 2012-02-22 10:42 by philippe.faes (Sigasi)

Setting the default application for VHDL filesSetting the default application for VHDL filesWhen I double-click a VHDL file, I want it to open with my favorite VHDL editor. Sigasi Pro, obviously.

Here is how to set this up in Mac OS X:

  • Find a VHDL file in the Finder
  • Right-click and select Get Info
  • Select Open with > Other… and find your Sigasi Pro application
  • Click Change All… so that all other VHDL files will also get opened with Sigasi.

Repeat this procedure for *.vhd files and for *.vhdl files.

Tricking your Mac in to Believing it can run ModelSim

Posted Thu, 2011-07-28 13:56 by philippe.faes (Sigasi)

Many of our users love Mac computers. Too bad that the mainstream EDA sector does not. There are hardly any EDA tools available for Mac, so most people use scripts to run their simulations on a remote (or a virtualized) Linux machine. In this blog post, I will explain how you can trick your Mac (or rather: your Sigasi tool) in to believing that it can run ModelSim, just like I showed you in this screencast.

Running ModelSim on your Mac

Posted Wed, 2011-07-27 08:51 by philippe.faes (Sigasi)
Here is a short screencast of ModelSim running on my MacBook Pro. I have published the full explanation here.

Sigasi Announces Mac OS X support for its IDE for VHDL

Posted Mon, 2009-09-07 09:15 by philippe.faes (Sigasi)

Ghent, Belgium – September 7, 2009 – Sigasi, an early stage EDA company, today announced Mac OS X support for Sigasi HDT, an Intelligent Development Environment (IDE) for VHDL.

Read the full press release.