Fedora: Eclipse setup for SystemC

I’ve been asked several days ago how setup Eclipse in order to use the RPM produced by my SystemC SRPM. Hence the reason of writing this blog post. Unlike the SystemC’s upstream default compilation, my SRPM doesn’t produce a static library (libsystemc.a), but a dynamic library libsystemc.so.

Preparing Eclipse to design with SystemC is very simple.

Note: 64 bit users should use /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib.

1. Create a C++ project with Project type “Hello World C++ Project”
2. From the menu, Project -> Properties
3. Select C/C++ Build -> Settings
4. On “Tool Settings” tab:
   • GCC C++ Compiler -> Directories
     • Add the directory “/usr/lib/systemc/2.2.0/include” which contains system.h

1. • GCC C++ Linker -> Libraries
     • In “libraries”, add “systemc”
     • In “Library Search Path”, add “/usr/lib/systemc/2.2.0/lib-linux/” which contains libsystemc.so

Filed under: eclipse, systemc

FEL12: Eclipse for reusable Embedded/VHDL/Verilog IP

The picture shows the respective eclipse-plugins, which will enhance :

• frontend design
• autogeneration of documentation and maintenance of professional datasheets
• Perl/Tcl scripting (Perl modules which featured as from FEL10)
• version controlled

experience for Fedora users.

Think Methodology and not random packaging.

This is sentence that many people have heard from me. Feeding design methodologies is one of the reasons why Fedora Electronic Lab  is so attractive to many small companies.

Development behind FEL 12 focusses on adding value to the frontend design. Eclipse, being an industry standard IDE, is FEL’s main IDE for digital/embedded hardware design.

In the following blog posts, I will cover these features in depth, meanwhile you can try those plugins with yum on your Fedora 11. Only eclipse-eclox and eclipse-texlipse are not yet part of the Fedora collection. They are being reviewed #506429 and #506431 respectively.

Filed under: eclipse, eda, fedora, fpga, Free Electronic Lab, IP, perl, tcl, verilog, vhdl