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- From: dank@cco.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl,caltech.compsci.cartel
- Subject: Writing a tool to convert digital circuit netlists to VHDL
- Date: 29 Jan 1993 02:54:41 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- I'm starting to design a netlist converter in C++ which will
- read in a Futurenet netlist and produce a structural VHDL netlist.
- (VHDL is the up-and-coming hardware description language for digital
- electronics design & simulation, if you hadn't heard the acronym before.
- Futurenet is an el cheapo schematic capture package.)
-
- I want to handle not just simple signals, but also arrays and records
- (at least as far as the Futurenet format supports them).
- I'm trying to decouple the netlist reading from the netlist writing
- by representing the netlist in memory. This ought to make it easy to
- add new input or output languages, such as EDIF, without having to
- rewrite the whole thing.
-
- Right now, I'm still designing the classes that will make up the
- internal representation. The task reminds me of compiler design at the
- moment.
-
- If anyone is interested in working with me on this, or just kibitzing, please
- write me at dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov.
- - Dan Kegel
-