Where did Source Navigator for Verilog come from?
Cygnus Software developed Source Navigator as a commercial product for software engineers. Until about version 4.5 it was sold as a proprietary product. Following the acquisition of Cygnus by Red Hat the product was released under the GPL. Eventually most of the engineers working on Source Navigator left Red Hat and the development stalled in 2001. In 2002, some of the original developers have to moved the project to SourceForge and continue to maintain it in their spare time. The project home page is now at http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net The old site was located at http://sources.redhat.com/sourcenav OpenSourceEDA appreciated the benefits of Source Navigator for software engineers and realized that hardware and verification engineers needed the same type of tool for Verilog. Unlike the software world, there are relatively few good tools for Verilog available at reasonable prices. The addition of Verilog support to Source Navigator fills this need.
