Hi, unfortunately I currently don't have much time to spend on ghdl web site. If someone wants to take care of that, that would be very useful. Maybe we should create a more easily maintainable wiki site.
Tristan. ----- Mail original ----- > > > > > On Jan 12, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Rogério wrote: > > > I developed and published a search plugin for Mozilla Firefox. It > searches terms in ghdl site. > > https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/addon/ghdl-search/ > > > > > > I search for new mentions of ghdl weekly and found Professor > Gonçalves plugin a half hour after it was published and added it to > Firefox. It's useful in lieu of a site index and it's too bad there > isn't more on ghdl.free.fr to find. > > > It's view of the site is limited by the software whose search it > uses. For example raw information can be found > here http://ghdl.free.fr/site/uploads/Main/ > > > I also took a look at gcg and am reminded of three things. There used > to be a VHDL source editor that was also designed to teach VHDL > syntax, it could be used to show where you were syntactically and > what your choices were from where the cursor was. It failed in the > market place, being too expensive for the time (1990 or 91) and the > company went on to field an analyzer/simulator. Another is templates > as used in ISE editors, closely related to the gcg effort. The third > on a more personal note, I used to have a set of macros for joe > (Joe's Own Editor) which I eventually gave up on after the second > reorganization of macros since their inception. The macros were > labor saving devices. The rest (and gcg) appear to be oriented > toward learning VHDL. > > > Today we see the majority of ghdl-discuss activity associated with > tool maintenance and troubleshooting, with the occasional > intersection with educational uses through the intersection of free > as in software freedom, and free as in free beer. (ghdl doesn't cost > anything). For instance Dr. Douglas Lyon has used ghdl in teaching > digital design at Fairfield University. > > > In this case we also see a lot of Brazilian, Argentine and South > American interest in open source including EDA/CAD, enabling > innovation in particular through educational institutes (see A > Methodology and Toolset to Enable SystemC and VHDL Co-simulation , > Maciel, Bruno Albertini, Sandro Rigo, Guido Araujo, Rodolfo Azevedo > State University of Campinas - PO Box 6176 - 13083-970, Campinas, > Brazil , or IP Core Mac Ethernet, Ing. Rodrigo A. Melo, Ing. > Salvador E. Tropea,Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial > Centro de Electrónica e Informática Laboratorio de Desarrollo > Electrónico con Software Libre, > http://www.lacie-unlam.org/uea2010/trabajos/uea2010_submission_11.pdf > (en espanol, Google Translate output is almost readable) for > example, both using ghdl). > > > Note that both UTIS INIT and Professor Gonçalves COINT UTFR are state > sponsored, where the value of open source to innovation appears well > recognized. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ghdl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss > _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
