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14 years ago

Automatic VHDL Code Generation Programmatically

We are actually working on a Double Precision IIR filter. We are interested in making a very generic filter which could support variety of functionalities. For some reason, VHDL generics are not supe...
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14 years ago

I have used Python extensively for VHDL code generation. In addition, I have described a set of routines that make up a small declarative language. The Mako templating engine is excellent; it is the main tool used for automatic generation of entity, architecture, and configurable parameters that in VHDL are made as constants.

On top of this, the Qt GUI toolkit makes it easy to build applications with Python. I formerly used PyQt, but now Nokia has ported Qt to Python in the form of the module PySide, which has a freer license that PyQt.

James