Re: gEDA-user: Newbie questions - Icarus Verilog

["M. Scott Moberly" <smoberly@mindspring.com>]

Emre Tezel wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am an Electrical Enginner and a Computer Scientist, graduated two 
> years ago from college. During undergrad, I worked with Verilog at 
> some of my classes - to design CPUs and all. I realized that in two 
> years I forgot a lot and now I want to re-sharpen my skills. I got 
> really excited when I saw the open source Icarus Verilog online today. 
> I have some newbie questions to you if you don't mind.
> 
> Where can I get some documentation of Icarus Verilog? Things like how 
> to run the compiler and simulator in Linux.
> 
> That's all for now.
> 
> Thank You
> Emre Tezel
> 
> 
> 
Emre:

The gEDA website has a link to the Icarus website. You'll find it in the 
FAQ page under B2. Here it is in case you can't find it: 
http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/. Download the latest stable release. 
I choose to use the "verilog-0.6-0.i386.rpm". It installed fine on my 
Mandrake system. Once you install, there are README.txt and 
QUICK_START.txt files in the /usr/share/doc/verilog-0.6/ directory. It 
will tell you how to basically run the compiler and simulator. I 
downloaded it just a few days ago and have been playing with it all 
weekend - really cool, and FREE. Stephen Williams has done a great job.

By the way, if you want to see waveforms and stuff, I understand you can 
use GTKWave as it accepts several file outputs from the compiler. I 
haven't been able to get this to work yet though.

Enjoy,

Scott Moberly