As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool
programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these
companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these
are:
Mentor Graphics ModelTech VHDL and Verilog simulator
Synopsys Design Compiler
On Oct 30, 1:25 pm, chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool
programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these
companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these
are:
Mentor Graphics
chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to use Python and C and wxWidgets for my EDA CAD program.
I want to put most of the program core in an Python extension and
GUI in wxWidgets.
I do need to get publishing quality vector graphics outputs from this
program so one of my concerns is if
chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool
programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these
companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these
are:
Mentor Graphics ModelTech VHDL and Verilog simulator
chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool
programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these
companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these
are:
Mentor Graphics ModelTech VHDL and Verilog
chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would prefer to use Python but can't deny how popular Tcl is, as
mentioned above, so my question is why wasn't Python selected by
these companies as the choice of scripting languages for their
product?
Are there any obvious advantages like:
chewie54 wrote:
Hello,
As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool
programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these
companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these
are:
Mentor Graphics ModelTech VHDL and Verilog simulator
On Oct 30, 10:47 pm, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would prefer to use Python but can't deny how popular Tcl is, as
mentioned above, so my question is why wasn't Python selected by
these companies as the choice of scripting languages for their
product?
I think this
Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We also had lots of hooks into C code. Doing that is trivial in Tcl. Yes,
I know you can extend/embed Python, but it's a LOT easier in Tcl.
Embedding a Tcl interpreter in a C program is literally one line of
code.
Have you tried both or just Tcl? I've
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
...
I think this question needs to be answered on a case-by-case basis,
but my guess is that it is in most cases historical. Work on Tcl
started in 1988, and it was the first (major?) embeddable scripting
language (that is also free software etc). Python wasn't
On Oct 31, 3:06 am, Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool
programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these
companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these
On Oct 31, 2007 2:01 PM, chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 31, 3:06 am, Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool
programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these
Hello,
As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool
programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these
companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these
are:
Mentor Graphics ModelTech VHDL and Verilog simulator
Synopsys Design
On Oct 30, 2:25 pm, chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would prefer to use Python but can't deny how popular Tcl is, as
mentioned above, so my question is why wasn't Python selected by
these companies as the choice of scripting languages for their
product?
Here are some reasons why
I would prefer to use Python but can't deny how popular Tcl is, as
mentioned above, so my question is why wasn't Python selected by
these companies as the choice of scripting languages for their
product?
I think this question needs to be answered on a case-by-case basis,
but my guess is
chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mentor Graphics ModelTech VHDL and Verilog simulator
Synopsys Design Compiler and Primetime Static Timing Analyzer
Actel FPGA tools.
How old are these tools? Tcl has been around as an extension language
for a long time, longer than most currently
That is correct. Tcl has it roots at UC Berkeley and was originally
used
to provide a command line interface for electronic design automation
(EDA)
tools.
Most commercial EDA vendors at that time were using their own,
proprietary
command language. Only later became Tcl widely adopted among EDA
On Oct 30, 3:25 pm, chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool
programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these
companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these
are:
Mentor Graphics
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