Converting VHDL to XML

[avishay]

Hi all,
I'm looking for a tool for converting VHDL entity information (ports,
generics) into XML, so I can integrate it in A Docbook document easily.
It seem that Quartus and Modelsim can do this (though undocumented in
Quartus), but I'm looking for a hardware design tool independent way
for doing this, most prefferably open source.
If anyone knows about a tool for automatic documentation (like Doxygen
for C) I would love to hear about. I know vhdldoc, but it only makes
HTML, and I really need XML.

Thanks,
Avishay

 

[Colin Marquardt]

"avishay" <avishorp@yahoo.com> writes:

I'm looking for a tool for converting VHDL entity information (ports,
generics) into XML, so I can integrate it in A Docbook document easily.
[...]
I know vhdldoc, but it only makes HTML, and I really need XML.

The hard part is the parsing which stays the same - it's probably
rather easy to modify vhdldoc so that it spits out XML instead of
HTML.

Cheers,
Colin

 

[Amal]

This is not open source solution, but if you have access to ModelSim,
there is an option named -gen_xml that generates xml for your VHDL
entity. Use it as follows:

% vcom -gen_xml <entity name> <output file name>

You might roll your own generation tool with PERL package
Hardware::Vhdl:arser very easily.

-- Amal

 

[Ira Baxter]

"avishay" <avishorp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hi all,
I'm looking for a tool for converting VHDL entity information (ports,
generics) into XML, so I can integrate it in A Docbook document easily.
It seem that Quartus and Modelsim can do this (though undocumented in
Quartus), but I'm looking for a hardware design tool independent way
for doing this, most prefferably open source.
If anyone knows about a tool for automatic documentation (like Doxygen
for C) I would love to hear about. I know vhdldoc, but it only makes
HTML, and I really need XML.

We offer a VHDL parser that builds full ASTs.
It can export the AST of the VHDL file directly,
or it could be trivally customized to export just the parts
you want.

http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/FrontEnds/VHDLFrontEnd.html


--
Ira Baxter, CTO
www.semanticdesigns.com