VHDL designer's toolkit

[Nicolas Matringe]

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

 

[Mike Treseler]

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.

-- Mike Treseler

 

[Nicolas Matringe]

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

Mike Treseler a écrit :

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
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).

Nicolas

 

[Mike Treseler]

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 ...

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

 

[Jim_B]

I cannot do any coding without vim

 

[Mark McDougall]

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!?!

Regards,

 

[ghelbig]

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.

 

[Martin Thompson]

VIM? Emacs? Why don't you both chop of one of your hands just to make it
even more challenging!?!

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

 

[Nicolas Matringe]

Jim_B a écrit :

I cannot do any coding without vim

I thought I heard a troll coming ...

Nicolas