VHDL designer's toolkit

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Nicolas Matringe

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Hi all
I am preparing myself a CD of free tools & documentation to bring along
with me when I have to work at client's facilities.

At the moment, I have gathered
- emacs + VHDL mode
- a Windows port of Un*x utilities (especially make)
- the VHDL.hlp file from ...
- VHDL 2000 LRM

What's missing ? What would you add ?

Nicolas
 
Nicolas Matringe wrote:
Hi all
I am preparing myself a CD of free tools & documentation to bring along
with me when I have to work at client's facilities.

At the moment, I have gathered
- emacs + VHDL mode
- a Windows port of Un*x utilities (especially make)
- the VHDL.hlp file from ...
- VHDL 2000 LRM

What's missing ? What would you add ?
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I couldn't do much debugging without a simulator
hooked up to vhdl-mode.

-- Mike Treseler
 
Sorry for using Google's service, There seems to be a problem with my
provider's server.

Mike Treseler a écrit :

Nicolas Matringe wrote:
Hi all
I am preparing myself a CD of free tools & documentation to bring along
with me when I have to work at client's facilities.

At the moment, I have gathered
- emacs + VHDL mode
- a Windows port of Un*x utilities (especially make)
- the VHDL.hlp file from ...
- VHDL 2000 LRM

What's missing ? What would you add ?

I couldn't do much debugging without a simulator
hooked up to vhdl-mode.
Click to expand...
So what would you recommend ? :)
I unfortunately don't have much time to learn new tools so I stick to
ModelSi but I might have time later ...

Colin Marquardt sent me his suggestions :
ghdl.free.fr, gtkwave, the new IEEE packages for fixed and floating
point arithmetic, the http://bear.ces.cwru.edu/vhdl/ packages, Ben
Cohen's packages, the handbook from http://www.hardi.com/vhdl.htm,
maybe stuff from http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/opentech/about,
maybe octave (Matlab-like tool).
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Nicolas
 
Nicolas Matringe wrote:

I couldn't do much debugging without a simulator
hooked up to vhdl-mode.

So what would you recommend ? :)
I unfortunately don't have much time to learn new tools so I stick to
ModelSim but I might have time later ...
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Just having vcom lets me use
vhdl-compile which jumps to syntax errors.

vsim would require a license server connection
or a dongle -- a problem at a client site.
I haven't yet found an easier way that works
reliably however.

-- Mike Treseler
 
I cannot do any coding without vim :)

Nicolas Matringe wrote:
Hi all
I am preparing myself a CD of free tools & documentation to bring along
with me when I have to work at client's facilities.

At the moment, I have gathered
- emacs + VHDL mode
- a Windows port of Un*x utilities (especially make)
- the VHDL.hlp file from ...
- VHDL 2000 LRM

What's missing ? What would you add ?

Nicolas
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Jim_B wrote:

I cannot do any coding without vim :)
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VIM? Emacs? Why don't you both chop of one of your hands just to make it
even more challenging!?! ;)

Regards,

--
Mark McDougall, Engineer
Virtual Logic Pty Ltd, <http://www.vl.com.au>
21-25 King St, Rockdale, 2216
Ph: +612-9599-3255 Fax: +612-9599-3266
 
The two things I always carry to the client site:
1) A laptop pre-loaded with all my favorite tools.
2) A big USB flash drive.

An x-server is nice to have on the laptop.
 
Mark McDougall <markm@vl.com.au> writes:

Jim_B wrote:

I cannot do any coding without vim :)

VIM? Emacs? Why don't you both chop of one of your hands just to make it
even more challenging!?! ;)
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I'm not sure I can imagine Emacsing with only one hand - I use one
hand for the control keys and another for the letters :)

Cheers,
Martin

--
martin.j.thompson@trw.com
TRW Conekt - Consultancy in Engineering, Knowledge and Technology
http://www.trw.com/conekt
 
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