From: "Brett H. Williams" Date: 2003-04-04T02:03:50+09:00 Subject: Re: Any Hardware/EDA engineers out there? On Apr 3, Phil Tomson wrote: > Just curious: are there any other hardware engineers or EDA software > engineers out there in RubyLand? > > I've been thinking about starting some sort of RubyEDA site where we could > post Ruby packages/applications which are related to EDA - like RHDL. > > This would be a way of promoting the use of Ruby in the EDA/hardware > design community. > > Anybody else got packages that would be appropriate to put on a RubyEDA > site? Here we have some C++ libs wrapped into Ruby for manipulating verilog, LEF, DEF, and some other in house EDA formats. It's also used in several other Ruby-only tools for ASIC design. Ruby is quickly eating 'market share' of general scripting usage, as well. Most of the more software savvy engineers here have switched to Ruby from Perl. We also have a project that uses Ruby + shell code to strictly maintain reentrant UNIX environments for various projects, with a focus on software development help. At this time, though, I don't think I'm at liberty to share any of it. Hmmm... we do have some simple utilities to parse and communicate with Tcl (so many CAD tools use Tcl). I think that could be shared, and we've found it quite useful despite its simplicity. -- ---------------------------------------------- | ---------------------- Brett Williams | Agilent Technologies | brett_williams@agilent.com ---------------------------------------------- | ----------------------