From: Phil Tomson <rubyfan@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T16:14:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby-VPI 0.7

On 7/22/06, Suraj N. Kurapati <skurapat@ucsc.edu> wrote:
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> Ruby-VPI is a Ruby interface to Verilog VPI. It lets you create
> complex Verilog test benches easily and wholly in Ruby.
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> Website:   http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org
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> Download:  http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1339&release_id=6154
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> SVN tag:   svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/ruby-vpi/tags/0.7

It's great to see more EDA tools based on Ruby and it looks like
you've put a lot of work into this.

One nitpick:  The link to RHDL in your user's guide should be updated
to point to:
http://rhdl.rubyforge.org/

Also, I'm not sure if RHDL is an 'alternative'.  In fact I wonder if
it might be possible to use RubyVPI and RHDL together sort of as a
distributed simulator where part of your code is simulating in the
Verilog simulator and part is simulating in RHDL?

BTW: I believe there is some support for VPI in the ghdl vhdl simulator (
http://ghdl.free.fr ) so RubyVPI may be usable with ghdl.

Phil