Thanks, If I could go back in time, I think I could have pulled this off as a masters project. Sigh.
I am hoping that once there is something out there that is open source then it will be easier for people like yourself to get approval for contributing small patches. It would be even cooler if the Tools vendors decided to contribute. I think I will start with just the Xilinx Vivado Utilization based on the Memory Map plugin, and then wait to see what comes out of the GSoC. That could be really exciting. On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 3:45:01 AM UTC-7, Oleg Nenashev wrote: > > Hi Derrick, > > It would be great to see that in open-source. > I have previously implemented plugins for dozens of EDA tools at my > previous jobs, but I was unable to get approvals to publish them. > > - My approach in OSS would be to create mini-plugins for each tool > separately so they get independent release cycles. > - Many existing plugins (like Warnings) have extension points so that > they can be used in external plugins. New extension points can be added > on-demand. > - Improvements to existing plugins (like hierarchical utilization) > would be really useful if they are implemented in a generic way > > FYI we also have a GSoC project idea about EDA tools: > https://jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/gsoc2018-project-ideas/#integration-plugin-s-for-electronic-design-automation-tools. > > > > Hopefully it helps, > Oleg > > четверг, 1 февраля 2018 г., 3:00:11 UTC+1 пользователь Derrick Gibelyou > написал: >> >> Are there any plugins for FPGA development that I can contribute to? >> >> I have been using and abusing a few software centric plugins, and am >> finally ready to put in some effort to get something better. I have used >> the Warning plugin with custom regex to create parser for the tools we use >> (Vivado, Modelsim, Quartus). I have also abused the PMD plugin to display >> long paths (too may LUTs between Flops), but that gets confusing unless you >> know how I mapped 'packages' to 'source clock' and line number to number of >> LUTs. I have used the plots plugin to try to plot utilization, with >> mediocre results. >> >> My plan for creating an FPGA plugin would be to take several existing >> plugins and extend them to be more applicable to FPGA development. >> First I would implement my custom regex in Java code by extending the >> Warning Plugin. Then I will extend the Memory Map plugin to work for >> FPGA resources. Eventually I would like to create intuitive reports for >> hierarchical utilization (By extending SLOCCount?) and warn about long >> paths (Maybe by extending a cyclomatic complexity plugin?) >> >> Are there any good starting points, or should I plow ahead and make my >> own plugin? >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/4d1796e9-4055-401f-84e4-0956fb8cf04d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
