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Florina M. Ciorba

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Hello all,

I want to learning Verilog, and I have a book of Palnitkar, "Verilog: A
guide to digital design and synthesis", but I do not know of a free tool to
write Verilog codes and run simulations. Can anybody suggest me such a tool?
A link or just the name would suffice.

Thanks
 
Our VeriLogger Pro will handle small Verilog files without a license. You
can download it from:

http://www.syncad.com

A lot of universities use it for teaching Verilog.

"Florina M. Ciorba" <cflorina@cslab.ece.ntua.gr> wrote in
news:bk74s1$33p$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr:

Hello all,

I want to learning Verilog, and I have a book of Palnitkar, "Verilog:
A guide to digital design and synthesis", but I do not know of a free
tool to write Verilog codes and run simulations. Can anybody suggest
me such a tool? A link or just the name would suffice.

Thanks
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Florina M. Ciorba wrote:
Hello all,

I want to learning Verilog, and I have a book of Palnitkar, "Verilog: A
guide to digital design and synthesis", but I do not know of a free tool to
write Verilog codes and run simulations. Can anybody suggest me such a tool?
A link or just the name would suffice.

Thanks
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http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/


--
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steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep,
http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep,
http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."
 
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:35:58 -0700, Stephen Williams
<spamtrap@icarus.com> wrote:

Florina M. Ciorba wrote:
Hello all,

I want to learning Verilog, and I have a book of Palnitkar, "Verilog: A
guide to digital design and synthesis", but I do not know of a free tool to
write Verilog codes and run simulations. Can anybody suggest me such a tool?
A link or just the name would suffice.

Thanks

http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/
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Icarus requires a separate waveform viewer, such as GTKwave
http://www.linux-workshop.com/bybell/ver/wave/wave.html
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/apt/tools/gtkwave/index.html

Regards,
Allan.
 
Allan Herriman wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:35:58 -0700, Stephen Williams
spamtrap@icarus.com> wrote:


Florina M. Ciorba wrote:

Hello all,

I want to learning Verilog, and I have a book of Palnitkar, "Verilog: A
guide to digital design and synthesis", but I do not know of a free tool to
write Verilog codes and run simulations. Can anybody suggest me such a tool?
A link or just the name would suffice.

Thanks


http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/


Icarus requires a separate waveform viewer, such as GTKwave
http://www.linux-workshop.com/bybell/ver/wave/wave.html
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/apt/tools/gtkwave/index.html
Click to expand...
There are prepackaged RPMS for Linux here:

ftp://ftp.icarus.com/pub/eda/gtkwave/


--
Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep,
http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep,
http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."
 
In article <tlffmvgnlill9ldbp721mq60jdl7tqjbim@4ax.com>, Allan Herriman wrote:
Icarus requires a separate waveform viewer, such as GTKwave
Click to expand...
Not strictly true. Practically, most people want and expect this.
In a pinch, however, you can write and debug Verilog programs pretty
much the same as people traditionally wrote and debug C programs.
I have. You use $display() instead of printf().

- Larry
 
Thank you all for such a quick response.

I'll try out the links you sent me.

F.
 
Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov> wrote in message news:<slrnbmfo3r.287.ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>...
In article <tlffmvgnlill9ldbp721mq60jdl7tqjbim@4ax.com>, Allan Herriman wrote:
Icarus requires a separate waveform viewer, such as GTKwave

Not strictly true. Practically, most people want and expect this.
In a pinch, however, you can write and debug Verilog programs pretty
much the same as people traditionally wrote and debug C programs.
I have. You use $display() instead of printf().

- Larry
Click to expand...
Totally. I never used a waveform viewer much as an undergrad so when
I did finally discover how useful they could be, they were a nice
surprise.

Note also that there's another visualization tool out there which
(IIRC) directly integrates with iverilog:

http://ivi.sourceforge.net/

....I've never used it outside of compiling it and checking it out to
see what it does but it's probably what someone would want to use for
interactive debugging as gtkwave currently is a post-mortem analysis
tool. (i.e., you invoke it after sim is finished.) I have no idea
how useful ivi is for large designs/long simruns.

As a heads up...LXT2 in gtkwave will allow for better interactivity
between sim and the viewer as it allows for partial reads, on-the-fly
flushing, even smaller filesizes, etc, but you'll have to wait for its
release. Suffice it to say the the code exists, works, and is
currently being tested. n.b., For people who dislike gtkwave, the
LXT2 database format is not tightly integrated with gtkwave like LXT
was, so supporting the format in other software wouldn't be difficult:
a fairly straightforward reader API exists and will be made available
under a nonrestrictive "I really don't care what you do with it"
BSDlike license.

Later,
Tony
 
"Florina M. Ciorba" <cflorina@cslab.ece.ntua.gr> wrote in message news:<bk74s1$33p$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr>...
Hello all,

I want to learning Verilog, and I have a book of Palnitkar, "Verilog: A
guide to digital design and synthesis", but I do not know of a free tool to
write Verilog codes and run simulations. Can anybody suggest me such a tool?
A link or just the name would suffice.

Thanks
Click to expand...
http://www.pragmatic-c.com/gpl-cver/

Jitendra
 
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