[f-cpu] [Fwd: Web server in VHDL? (vhdl-posix-0.1)]

[Yann Guidon <whygee@f-cpu.org>]

you have to read it to believe it !
i mean : go fetch the source package and read the source :-)

The sad side of it : it only works with Modelsim and Synopsys.
not even with Cadence !!

Maybe it's worth an entry in the OpenCollector database,
and/or some coding/support efforts ?... (not in F-CPU
but for those into coding simulators...)

YG

-------- Original Message --------
From: Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl
Subject: Web server in VHDL?  (vhdl-posix-0.1)
Date: 05 Dec 2001 18:39:06 +0100
Organization: AG DT/IPL, EE, University of Dortmund

Hi,

I've just uploaded vhdl-posix-0.1.tar.gz to

    http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/vhdl-posix/

This is mostly a proof-of-concept and to get feedback.  It includes a
(very minimal) HTTP server written in VHDL!

From the README:

    This is version 0.1 of the vhdl-posix package.  It provides
    support for accessing POSIX features from VHDL.

    Currently, there is some useful support for Modelsim, and some
    initial code for the Synopsys implementations of VHPI.  VHPI is
    largely untested.

    VHDL is a nice language for simulating hardware.  It is not so
    nice for interacting with the environment of the simulator.  Given
    that a simulation is just a program, after all, you might want to
    do things that other programs do: open network connections,
    launching processes, and reacting to outside events.

    VHDL itself does not provide the means for this, but each
    simulator likely offers support for doing things that are `out of
    the ordinary', by allowing calls to code written in C.

    This package aims to provide a portable way of accessing selected
    features of POSIX.  It should be portable across different POSIX
    implementations, and across different simulators.

- Marius
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