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Welcome!

UMHDL is an educational Integrated Development Environment (IDE) intended for learning digital designing with programmable logic devices using Hardware Description Languages (HDL) through simulation. It is an open-source application created at the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) by professors and students. The aim for the UMHDL development was to have a graphical application that allows learning the VHDL language without licensing restrictions (using some existing open-source tools) and requiring few resources. So, the interface developed acts as a front-end that allows writing code (with syntax highlighting), invokes an external VHDL compiler and simulator (such as GHDL, FreeHDL, or nvc), and displays the result of the simulation graphically as waveforms (invoking to GTKWave).

The user can choose the language of the application; currently it has been translated to several languages (Spanish, English, Ukrainian, Arab, French, Chinese, Gallego, Valenciano, Russian, etc.), and it is planned to support other ones.

NOTE: The application try to determine your language depending on your computer locale information. If it is still not supported, the default language will be English; then you can change it in the configuration dialog to another one. The selection is stored in a configuration file named "simulin.ini" located at yout home directory, that you can delete to begin from the scratch. As I cannot try the application in a computer for all the existing languages in the world, if you have any problem after installing the application, you can write to me an email (pgarrido@umh.es).

Project Members:

• Pedro Pablo Garrido Abenza (admin)