On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:40:26PM -0500, Bill Cox wrote: > Hi. > > I think gdatabase will come into use out there in any significant volume > until at least one really cool application is built on it. I'm looking > for the right first tool. I'm hoping that if I spear-head development > of the first tool, then others will get involved to expand from there. > In particular, I hope this platform will enhance the open-source > community's ability to come out with automated EDA tools. > > Some ideas: > > -- Schematic generator from structural Verilog/VHDL. It could take > output from Icarus Verilog and generate .sch and .sym files. It could > also possibly generate schematics from the structural portions of RTL > level Verilog
It would be cool to be able to generate hierarchical schematics from behavioral verilog. As someone pointed out to me (Stuart I think it was), if you're handed someone elses verilog code, making a block diagram is often a good way to start understanding it. > -- A netlist translation capability: Verilog/VHDL/SPICE both in and out > so we can convert from one to the other. > -- A PCB place and route tool There is a [broken I think] placer in pcb as well as a [functional I think] autorouter. In general though I expect there's some room in that project for more attention to the database. -Dan --
