Provide unified interfaces to execute EDA tools via CLI from Python, agnostic to any specific configuration format/object.

Main Goals

• Provide a pythonic solution to construct command line calls for EDA tools based on pyTooling.CLIAbstraction
• Launch CLI tools and connect to STDIn, STDOUT, STDERR for realtime output post-processing.

Features

• Support multiple native platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows.
• Support nested platforms like MSYS2 with MinGW32, MinGW64, URCT64, Clang64, ...
• Find CLI programs either in PATH or specify an exact installation location.
• Generate CLI options in correct order.
• Generate correctly escaped CLI options.

Supported Tools

• Aldec
  • 🚧 Active-HDL
  • 🚧 Riviera-PRO
• Altera
  • 🚧 Quartus
  • 🚫 ModelSim Altera (Student) Edition
• Cadence
  • 🙋 need a list of tools
• IntelFPGA
  • 🚧 Quartus
  • 🚫 ModelSim Altera (Student) Edition
• Lattice
  • 🚧 Diamond
  • 🚫 Active-HDL Lattice Edition
  • 🚫 ModelSim Lattice Edition
• MentorGraphics
  • ✅ ModelSim DE/SE/PE
  • 🚫 QuestaSim
• SiemensEDA
  • 🚫 ModelSim DE/SE/PE
  • 🚫 QuestaSim
• Synopsys
  • 🙋 need a list of tools
• Xilinx
  • 🚧 ISE
  • 🚧 Vivado
  • 🚫 Vivado-SDK
  • 🚫 Vitis
• System Tools
  • ✅ Git
• Open Source
  • ✅ GHDL
  • ✅ GTKWave
• Yosys
  • 🙋 need a list of tools

Legend:
✅ → implemented and tested
🚧 → under test
🚫 → planned but not yet implemented ⇒ accepting PRs
🙋 → need help

Examples

from pyEDAA.CLITool.GHDL import GHDL

tool = GHDL()
tool[tool.CommandAnalyze] = True
tool[tool.FlagVHDLStandard] = "08"
tool[tool.FlagSynopsys] = True
tool[tool.FlagRelaxed] = True
tool[tool.FlagExplicit] = True
tool[tool.FlagMultiByteComments] = True
tool[tool.FlagLibrary] = "lib_Test"

print(f"Calling GHDL: {tool}")
# Calling GHDL: "ghdl" "analyze" "--std=08" "-fsynopsys" "-frelaxed" "-fexplicit" "--work=lib_Test" "--mb-comments"

Consumers

This layer is used by:

• 🚧 pyEDAA.Workflow
• 🚧 pyEDAA.Launcher
• 🚧 Open Source Verification Bundle (OSVB)

References

• docs.siliconcompiler.com: Tools directory
• GHDL:
  • Paebbels/pyIPCMI: pyIPCMI/Simulator/GHDLSimulator.py
  • VUnit/vunit: vunit/sim_if/ghdl.py
  • olofk/edalize: edalize/ghdl.py
  • im-tomu/fomu-workshop: hdl/mixed/blink/Makefile
  • PyFPGA/pyfpga: fpga/tool/openflow.py
  • XedaHQ/xeda: xeda/flows/ghdl/init.py
  • cocotb/cocotb: cocotb/runner.py (cocotb/cocotb#2634)
  • stnolting/neorv32: tasks/examples.py (stnolting/neorv32#110)
  • ghdl/ghdl: scripts/vendors/shared.sh
    • ghdl/ghdl: scripts/vendors/shared.psm1
  • OSVVM/OSVVM-Scripts: VendorScripts_GHDL.tcl

Contributors

• Patrick Lehmann (Maintainer)
• Unai Martinez-Corral
• and more...

License

This Python package (source code) is licensed under Apache License 2.0.
The accompanying documentation is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0).

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SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0