Simulator | Comment | Download from | Windows | Linux | Mac OSX |
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Aldec Active-HDL, Student Edition | Students only | Aldec Download page | Yes | No | No |
ModelSim Altera Starter Edition | Only Altera FPGAs | Altera Quartus Web Edition | Yes | Yes | No |
ISim | Only Xilinx FPGAs | Xilinx Webpack | Yes | Yes | No |
Simili | SymphonyEDA website | Yes | Yes | No | |
GHDL | limited features; only VHDL-93 | GHDL website | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GHDL on Mac OSX uses Wine, but works without problems.