SVEditor - A SystemVerilog Editor Eclipse Plugin

Source code editors have features specifically designed to simplify and speed up input of source code, such as syntax highlighting, indentation, autocomplete and bracket matching functionality. Variety of source code editors are available for VLDH, Verilog & SystemVerilog. We have already posted feb of them like Scriptum, and Emacs. 

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Scriptum - Free VHDL and Verilog Text Editor 

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SVEditor is an Eclipse-based IDE (integrated development environment) for SystemVerilog and Verilog development. It provides a colourising editor for SystemVerilog with support for source navigation, content assist, source indent and auto-indent, SystemVerilog source templates and context-sensitive viewing of source documentation. Users have praised SVEditor for some of its features, such as searching for a colourisation of SystemVerilog keywords or words in a directory, auto-completion and some content assist. We believe that you can use SVEditor for debugging if you love emacs. Quoting from sourceforge.net, one user has said, “I’m totally stoked that this project is under active development. The tool is already very useful.

SVEditor provides a variety of features to make developing designs and testbench environments in SystemVerilog simpler and more efficient.

Features at a glance

The application uses a scanner that is similar to ctags for extracting the information from SystemVerilog and Verilog source files. It is engineered to be tolerant of errors, as well as to ignore unrecognized language constructs.

Among some of SVEditor’s features, we can mention colorizing for SystemVerilog keywords, outline view linked with editor, file structure view, SystemVerilog source index, syntax coloring editor, content assist, and cross-linking between data structure usage and declaration.

There are multiple ways to install the SVEditor software on your GNU/Linux computer, considering the fact that we’ve already installed the latest JRE (Java Runtime Environment) and Eclipse IDE software.

For exemple, you can download the latest version of the project as a JAR archive that can be opened into an existing Eclipse environment, you can search the application in the main software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution, or compile it yourself using the source package provided right here on Softpedia.

For more details, do not hesitate to check out the project’s website.

Supported operating systems:

Taking a look under the hood of the SVEditor application, we can notice that it has been written entirely in the Java programming language and integrates with the Eclipse IDE for its graphical user interface.

If you don't have Eclipse IDE installed then here is link to download page of Eclipse IDE. Download Eclipse IDE

Being written in Java, SVEditor is a cross-platform software that runs on all operating ssytems where the Java Runtime Environment and Eclipse IDE are available, including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It has been successfully tested on computers supporting either of the 64-bit (x86_64) or 32-bit (x86) CPU architectures.

EDA Playground–An Awesome Online Tool

Many times we use the web to find code examples and tutorials. However, often the examples were incomplete. Sometimes they were missing the necessary code to hook the example into a real design. Other times, the code examples had syntax errors.

Sometime we are presented with a working design, with lines stripped out, but with undefined variables and dangling commas left in. Other times the code examples simply did not work on my simulator. All this resulted in endless frustration to us. I knew there had to be a better way, EDA Playground is one.

EDA Playground is a free web application that allows users to edit, simulate (and view waveforms), synthesize, and share their HDL code. Its goal is to accelerate the learning of design and testbench development with easier code sharing and with simpler access to simulators and libraries. EDA Playground is specifically designed for small prototypes and examples (it is not intended to be used for a full-blown FPGA or ASIC design).

EDA Playground gives engineers immediate hands-on exposure to simulating SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL, C++/SystemC, and other HDLs. All you need is a web browser. The goal is to accelerate learning of design/testbench development with easier code sharing, and with simpler access to EDA tools and libraries. EDA Playground is specifically designed for small prototypes and examples.

• With a simple click, run your code and see console output in real time. Pick another simulator version and run it again.
• View waves for your simulation using EPWave browser-based wave viewer.
• Save your code snippets. Share your code and simulation results with a web link. Perfect for web forum discussions or emails. Great for asking questions or sharing your knowledge.
• Quickly try something out
  • Try out a SystemVerilog feature before using it on your project.
  • Try out a library that you’re thinking of using.
  • Modify another engineer’s shared code and re-run it.
• Eliminate environment differences. Since the code always executes in the same environment, everyone will see the same result on a subsequent re-run.
• Browse and use a large repository of working code examples and templates.

 

Xilinx enables C programmable FPGAs

The Vivado Design Suite 2013.1 includes a new IP-centric design environment designed to accelerate system integration, and a set of libraries to accelerate C/C++ system-level design and high-level synthesis (HLS). The update provides a workflow that does not dictate how a design team works.

Users of Vivado HLS can access video processing functions integrated into an OpenCV environment for embedded vision running on the dual-core ARM processing system.

It delivers, says Xilinx, up to a 100X performance improvement of existing C/C++ algorithms through hardware acceleration.

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Scriptum - Free VHDL and Verilog Text Editor

Scriptum is a free text editor focused at VHDL and Verilog design, running on Windows and Linux. Using a multiple document window interface combined with tab pages it offers you an slick environment to edit VHDL, Verilog and other language files.

Even on extremely large files Scriptum offers exceptionally fast editing capabilities. You can avoid typing errors and dramatically improve your productivity by using keyword and header templates, identifier repeat, auto case conversion and one-touch line and column manipulation. To keep your text highly readable and well structured, you may choose syntax coloring and in- and out-commenting of selected text, as well as line numbering and indentation. Scriptum offers extensive documentation capabilities such as color coding, capitalization and indentation to make your numerous lines of code more readable. Scriptum is fully customizable to create a design environment that meets your needs. Design language, synthesis templates, keyword templates, and user interface are easily tailored to your requirements.

Features

• Syntax color highlighting
• Code folding for VHDL & Verilog
• Manual Code folding
• Code templates
• Block and Column selections
• Selection Indenting / De-indenting
• Selection Commenting / Uncommenting
• Tabs and spaces conversion
• White space viewer

Language support

Scriptum comes standard with support for the following languages:

• Verilog
• VHDL
• Tcl
• SystemC
• Perl
• Java
• Edif
• C/C++
• Actel PDC
• Altera QSF
• Xilinx UCF

Additional languages can be added using Scriptum configuration files.

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GNU Emacs - A Customizable Text Editor

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML. Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users. Full Unicode support for nearly all human languages and their scripts. Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. A large number of extensions that add other functionality, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more. Many of these extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs; others are available separately.

Emacs 23 has a wide variety of new features, including:

• Improved Unicode support.
• Font rendering with Fontconfig and Xft.
• Support for using X displays and text terminals in one session, and for running as a daemon.
• Support for multi-file commits in distributed version-control systems (VC-dir).
• New modes and packages for viewing PDF and postscript files (Doc-view mode), connecting to processes through D-Bus (dbus), connecting to the GNU Privacy Guard (EasyPG), editing XML documents (nXML mode), editing Ruby programs (Ruby mode), and more.

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