xilinx and script

[Rick North]

Hi all,

Will Xilinx bundle tcl in Xilinx ISE? I know that they have Pearl, but
all other development tools I use (modelsim, synplify etc) have support
for tcl.

Is there a strong will in the community to use script or are people
satisfied to click and wait and click their way through the design
steps?

I have just started to script my way through my design which is quite
large and has a bunch of vhdl files. The thing I have trouble with at
this point is to order the files in hierarchy and compile order for
synthesis. So far I have done it by hand but I hope there is a better
way. I have seen emacs do it in vhdl mode but I don't know how to
extract it. Has any of you done this or should I let a design tool do
it for me?

Regards,
R N

 

[Mike Treseler]

Rick North wrote:

Is there a strong will in the community to use script or are people
satisfied to click and wait and click their way through the design
steps?

Clicking is fine if I run the command once a week.
If I run it 50 times a day, I will find an alternative.

I have just started to script my way through my design which is quite
large and has a bunch of vhdl files. The thing I have trouble with at
this point is to order the files in hierarchy and compile order for
synthesis. So far I have done it by hand but I hope there is a better
way.

I use vcom and "make".

I have seen emacs do it in vhdl mode but I don't know how to
extract it.

The emacs command is
vhdl-generate-makefile
then
vhdl-make

Has any of you done this or should I let a design tool do
it for me?

The Makefile is just text that
you could learn to write yourself,
but it is probably just as easy to load
emacs vhdl-mode and let it write it
for you.

-- Mike Treseler

 

[sudhi]

There is a way to scripting in Xilinx ISE. You need to use a batch
file(.bat). All the different steps are presented as different
standalone exe files, e.g. xst,ngdbuild,par etc. All the options that
you set by clicking in the GUI can be passed as command line arguments
to the standalone executables.

Sudhi

 

[Rick North]

Yes I have used windows cmd before but the reason for me to switch to
TCL is that it gives me so much more power to examine the output, which
tcl can format as I want to/need to.
/R N
sudhi skrev:

There is a way to scripting in Xilinx ISE. You need to use a batch
file(.bat). All the different steps are presented as different
standalone exe files, e.g. xst,ngdbuild,par etc. All the options that
you set by clicking in the GUI can be passed as command line arguments
to the standalone executables.

Sudhi

 

[Rick North]

Found the tcl interpeterit it was there beside the pearl one....