Introduction to Verilog-Perl

Written by Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>.

Summary

The Verilog-Perl library is a building point for Verilog support in the Perl language. It includes:

• Verilog::Getopt which parses command line options similar to C++ and VCS.

• Verilog::Language which knows the language keywords and parses numbers.

• Verilog::Netlist which builds netlists out of Verilog files. This allows easy scripts to determine things such as the hierarchy of modules.

• Verilog::Parser invokes callbacks for language tokens.

• Verilog::Preproc preprocesses the language, and allows reading post-processed files right from Perl without temporary files.

• vpm preprocesses warnings and assertions for any simulator.

• vppp preprocesses the complete Verilog 2001 and SystemVerilog language.

• vrename renames and cross-references Verilog symbols. Vrename creates Verilog cross references and makes it easy to rename signal and module names across multiple files. Vrename uses a simple and efficient three step process. First, you run vrename to create a list of signals in the design. You then edit this list, changing as many symbols as you wish. Vrename is then run a second time to apply the changes.

See also

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