[ANN] Ruby-VPI 0.6

[Suraj N. Kurapati]

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Ruby-VPI is a Ruby interface to Verilog VPI. It lets you create
complex Verilog test benches easily and wholly in Ruby.

http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org


= Version 0.6 (2006-05-25)

== Summary

This major release adds a comprehensive user manual, upgrades from
make to Rake[http://rake.rubyforge.org], and improves the test
generation tool.

== Details

* A comprehensive user manual, written in DocBook-XML, has been added.

* Rake has replaced the role of +make+. All makefiles have been
converted accordingly.

* The test generation tool now generates multiple files (runner,
bench, design, spec) and makes backups of existing files. See its
help information for details.

* Support for RSpec 0.5.4 has been added.

* The counter example now makes use of RSpec.

* Tested and developed using:
* Ruby 1.8.4 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 GNU/Linux
* Ruby 1.8.4 and Mentor Modelsim 6.1d on x86_64 GNU/Linux

== Acknowledgment

* Thanks to Jose Renau for solving the problem of strange delays
that occurred whenever a design was reset.
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[Stephen Williams]

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Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:

* Tested and developed using:
* Ruby 1.8.4 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 GNU/Linux
* Ruby 1.8.4 and Mentor Modelsim 6.1d on x86_64 GNU/Linux

Might want to add tests for current CVS (or at least snapshots)
of Icarus Verilog. Helps keep me honest. It should work with
both versions without even recompile.

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[Suraj N. Kurapati]

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Stephen Williams wrote:

Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:

* Tested and developed using:
* Ruby 1.8.4 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 GNU/Linux
* Ruby 1.8.4 and Mentor Modelsim 6.1d on x86_64 GNU/Linux

Might want to add tests for current CVS (or at least snapshots)
of Icarus Verilog. Helps keep me honest. It should work with
both versions without even recompile.

Ah, I just tested with snapshot 20060409 and, as expected, there are
no problems. I will try to use the latest Icarus Verilog snapshot
before making releases for Ruby-VPI.

Thanks for the feedback and the great simulator. My project would
not be possible without yours.
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