FEL: Icarus Verilog: more than simulator

This blog post highlights the VPI bug fix and some hidden features of iverilog which most verilog users are not aware. Fedora proposes Icarus Verilog for verilog simulation. The related documentation of iverilog and examples can be found via

• man vvp
• man iverilog
• man iverilog-vpi
• and rpm -qld iverilog

To install Icarus Verilog on Fedora:

# yum install iverilog

Icarus Verilog is available on the Fedora Electronic Lab livedvd.

Keys features of Icarus Verilog

All the mentioned documentation below can be found via

$ rpm -qld iverilog | grep DOC

Use any text editor of your choice to open them.

• Supports attributes to control synthesis

More details : attributes.txt

• Supports some extensions of verilog variant: SystemVerilog

More details : extensions.txt

• FPGA code generator

More details : fpga.txt

• Compatibility with the Cadence PLI module

More details : cadpli.txt

• Accessible Standard Verilog-A Mathematical Constants.

More details : va_math.txt

• VPI interface supporting trace

Environment variable : VPI_TRAC

More details : vpi.txt

# yum install iverilog-devel

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