RE: Verilog help appreciated

From: Bil Herd <bherd_at_mercury-cg.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:43:40 -0500
Message-ID: <b353596f1dbb51094d6300bcf6995e81@mail.gmail.com>
Being a dinosaur I keep a copy of Altera 9.2 where I can create stimulus
as (scripted) waveforms.

Bil

>The problem with both HDLs is that they are terrible for writing
testbenches. I parse the Verilog into a tree of signals then use VPI to
access them from a simple C
>interface. The C code can then read test vectors from files, run various
events, and read out the results.

>I like python more than C so I typically build a dynamic library plugin
in C and then import it into python with CFFI. CFFI lets you import C
files directly into python >without translating interfaces with SWIG.

http://iverilog.wikia.com/wiki/Using_VPI
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/03/09/python-ffi-with-ctypes-and-cffi/

But this is all getting off-topic for this list.

-Nate


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