From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-04-04T02:55:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Any Hardware/EDA engineers out there?

In article <20030403170348.GB28569@vor-lord.ftc.agilent.com>,
Brett H. Williams <brett_williams@agilent.com> wrote:
>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.

Can you elaborate on 'for manipulating verilog'?

>
>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.

Anything you can share would be good.

Phil