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13 years ago

HDL powerful editor.

HDL Editor: the HDL Powerful Editor

Verilog, VHDL which editor to use better? Mention to the experience.

I used Quartus editor, and there are always defects. Very much appreciate the IntelliSense feature in Visual Studio.

we want to design a power editor, we welcome more suggestions.

The main function is:

1.Syntax highlighting, folding.

2.The perfect Chinese support.

3. Quickly generate code templates support script.

4. smart navigation

5. Call structure diagram.

6. Real-time code checking: (a difficult point ,to do some basic)

7. Embedded the Icarus Verilog simulation. So easy to do some small simulation.

Other. . . . . Please mention.

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    Notepad++ is pretty good and free

    Some people seem to like HDL Designer from Mentor (others dont).
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    thank of your advise.

    i wan create a open source project, thus we can do more extension.
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    NotePad++ is a general-purpose editor, i wan to create a dedicated editor..

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    Notepad++ is pretty good and free

    Some people seem to like HDL Designer from Mentor (others dont).

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    @ fpga_fan : Good idea but we have our habits with our preferred text editor. So a higly customisable editor will be great.

    I have found no free VHDL editors that are able to "refactor", I mean : to rename signals in VHDL files like rename variables in C files as Eclipse does

    I also open both VHDL files and Modelsim macros (.DO) in the same editor.

    I have made a few (alpha version) pythonscript for notepad++ for "refactoring" and for "copying derivated entities"

    I am contributing to "source cookifier" plugin to get a "functions list" for vhdl.

    Notepad++ lacks of VHDL templates (little work), hierarchy structure (much work)...

    Sigasi does "refactoring" with the state of the art (not like me :-)) but not free.