List of known VHDL metacomment pragma's

Following up on a previous post, VHDL Pragmas, this is an incomplete list of supported VHDL pragmas, organized by vendor.

As an introduction, most pragmas have the following structure:

-- trigger directive

where trigger is a keyword such as pragma or synthesis, and the directive is a special compiler directive. Many tools support several triggers, each with identical meaning.

Synopsys

https://eecs.wsu.edu/~daehyun/teaching/2016_EE434/dhkim/Tutorial/VHDL_USER_GUIDE.pdf  (Chapter 6) http://www.pldworld.com/_hdl/4/_ref/synopsys/vhdlref_v1999.05,May.1999.pdf  (Chapter 9)

Triggers:

• synopsys
• pragma

Known directives are:

-- pragma translate_off
-- pragma translate_on
-- pragma synthesis_off
-- pragma synthesis_on
-- pragma resolution_method wired_and
-- pragma resolution_method wired_or
-- pragma resolution_method three_state 
-- pragma map_to_entity entity_name
-- pragma return_port_name port_name

ActiveHDL

https://www.aldec.com/resources/manuals/Active-HDL/vsa00265.htm 

No triggers.

Disable compilation (and simulation):

-- vhdl_comp_on
-- vhdl_comp_off

Disable code coverage analysis:

-- vhdl_cover_off
-- vhdl_cover_on
-- coverage off
-- coverage on

Intel Quartus

Intel documentation 

Triggers:

• synthesis
• synopsys
• pragma
• exemplar
• altera (not clear if this is supported for all directives, but given as an example trigger for message_level)

Directives:

-- synthesis translate_on
-- synthesis translate_off
-- synthesis library <my_lib>
-- altera message_level
-- altera message_on
-- altera message_off
-- synthesis VHDL_INPUT_VERSION
-- synthesis read_comments_as_HDL on
-- synthesis read_comments_as_HDL off

Note that the last two directives allow the synthesis tool to interpret commented code as VHDL. This is the opposite as the synthesis translate_off pragma, which suppresses VHDL code as if it were commented.

Xilinx

https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx2019_1/ug901-vivado-synthesis.pdf 

Triggers:

• synthesis
• synopsys
• pragma
• xilinx

Directives:

-- synthesis translate_off
-- synthesis translate_on

IEEE VHDL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1342563 

-- RTL_SYNTHESIS OFF
-- RTL_SYNTHESIS ON

Conclusion

While the IEEE standard on synthesizable VHDL code specifies -- RTL_SYNTHESIS OFF or ON as the only legal metacomment pragmas, this does not correspond to the tool vendors’ implementations. From what I gather, your safest bet is:

-- pragma translate_off
-- pragma translate_on

If you find that any information is missing in this post, please write a comment. It would be great if you can also provide a reference to the original documentation.