[ANN] Ruby-VPI 0.9.2

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Ruby-VPI is a Ruby interface to Verilog VPI. It lets you create
complex Verilog test benches easily and wholly in Ruby.

Website: http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org

Tutorial: http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/usage.tutorial.html

Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1339&release_id=6649

SVN tag: svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/ruby-vpi/tags/0.9.2

Version 0.9.2 (2006-08-26)

Summary

    This release beautifies generated tests, adds checks to find
    signal width bugs, and includes a new tool.

Details

  • The test generator now uses ERB templates which ensures nice
    indentation of generated output.

  • The test generator now decouples Ruby-VPI paths from Verilog
    benches via the RUBYLIB environment variable.

  • A tool which converts Verilog headers into Ruby has been added.

  • put_value() now returns the value it puts. Therefore, it is
    easier to chain together a series of assignments:

      foo.intVal = bar.intVal = baz.intVal = 10

  • put_value() now verifies that the value it puts was written
    correctly. This helps to find bugs regarding invalid
    assumptions about the number of bits supported by a signal.

  • The source code is now indented with two spaces instead of one
    tab character.