It's great that companies do this, but I wish that they would also open-source the verification infrastructure at the same time.<p>Otherwise, anyone who wants to use it in a commercial setting has to either re-do their own verification effort and due-diligence, or just trust the core works perfectly. Don't get me wrong, I trust IBM to build a working CPU, but that doesn't mean there aren't corner cases to be found when you put the core in a new SoC environment.<p>There is lots of open source HDL out there. We need re-usable verification infrastructure too!
This should be interesting. Probably far too complicated for me to understand, but will still take a look. Surprised to see VHDL instead of Verilog, but not complaining at all.<p>edit: Just took a look. Code is nice and clean but complicated was an understatement.