Dear Sigasi HDT user,
In this release we present our first step towards integration with the Xilinx ISE (Integrated Synthesis Environment) tool suite. This release offers both import functionality for ISE projects and also allows to start the Xilinx ISE simulator from within Sigasi HDT.
Run Xilinx ISim from within Sigasi HDT
Import ISE projects
Sigasi HDT now supports setting up projects based on an existing Xilinx ISE project (the project.xise file). Just use the "Point to exiting project wizard" to point Sigasi HDT to the existing project. Sigasi HDT will automatically detect Xilinx project files (*.xise) and offer the import option.
Import Xilinx ISE project with the "Point to existing project wizard"
Sigasi HDT will parse the project file and automatically include and exclude the necesarry files. Libraries will also be set up.
In this first version of the Xilinx project importer, the importer only supports Xilinx projects with local files. Projects with design files outside the project folder are not supported yet.
Simulate with ISim
Xilinx now ships its own HDL simulator with ISE, that enables functional and timing simulations for VHDL, Verilog and mixed VHDL/Verilog designs: ISim. update: read about Xilinx and Modelsim
This release allows to compile and run your design with ISim from within Sigasi HDT: just click Project > Compile with ISim and Sigasi HDT creates the necessary scripts to run your project with ISim. You can use these scripts as inspiration to write headless simulation scripts.
As with the ModelSim output, links in console log are clickable and point the editor view to the corresponding location.
Console output ISim
Of course you need to have Xilinx ISE installed (Sorry Mac Os X users).
Other noteworthy changes:
Let us know what you think about this new release in the comments or on our forum.
The Sigasi team.
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