gEDA-user: Pre-Alpha-1 Release of Icarus Verilog Interactive

[Matthew Ballance <ballance@ballance.dhs.org>]

Hi All,
   I'm writing to announce the Pre-Alpha-1 release of Icarus Verilog
Interactive.

   Icarus Verilog Interactive (IVI) is a graphical front-end for the
Icarus Verilog simulator by Stephen Williams. IVI allows you to
interactively explore, simulate, and debug your Verilog design.
   IVI is designed to be extensible. IVI uses a plugin architecture that
should make it reasonably simple for interested parties to write
extensions such as file-format import/export filters or
data-visualization tools.
   IVI uses the TCL scripting language as its automation and
user-interaction language. The core of IVI is implemented in C++ with
interfaces to TCL.

   The initial (limited) release of IVI allows you to do the following:
   - Load and simulate verilog designs compiled by Icarus Verilog for
the VVP simulator.
   - Browse the structure of your design.
   - Select signals from the design to trace in the waveform window
   - Simulate the design for an arbitrary period of time.
   - View the signals in the waveform window in hex, decimal, octal,
binary, or string radix.
   - Save the setup of the waveform window to a file. The waveform
window may be configured from this file in future simultion sessions.


   The homepage for IVI is: http://ivi.sourceforge.net 
   There is a getting-started tutorial on this page with screenshots:
http://ivi.sourceforge.net/getting_started
   Instructions for building IVI are located at:
http://ivi.sourceforge.net/building 

   A specially-patched version of Icarus Verilog is required for use
with IVI. Source is available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ivi


Regards,
Matthew