Re: [myhdl-list] High-level thinking: Using Python for rapid verification

[Keerthan jai.c <jck...@gm...>]

Cocotb is really nice. Plus it supports all major simulators. I think its
definitely worth investigating if their VPI code can be used by MyHDL.


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Christopher Felton <chr...@gm...>
wrote:

> On 8/1/2014 3:14 AM, Guy Eschemann wrote:
> > I've watched the webinar and I was quite impressed. I'm actually waiting
> > for Cocotb to support Microsoft Windows (planned: Q3/2014) to try it out.
> >
>
>  From my perspective it was more of frustration, obviously
> they have some nice features (would be great to see these
> merged into MyHDL) but from the big picture I don't see
> anything the MyHDL doesn't support: provides an interface
> to the V* simulators and you can cosim with Python.
>
> > The part you're referring to is called the Generic Procedural Interface
> > (GPI), and it seems to be written in C.
> >
>
> GPI?  I realize the interesting chunks are the C code (they
> actually did some ugly stuff in the Python side), I will
> need to put this at the end of my infinite "check-out" list
> and see if their C code can be merged with MyHDLs VPI code -
> at this point I don't know if it even makes sense?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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