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Eclipse Plugin for Bluespec System Verilog

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Author

  • Tobias Zipfel

Summary, in English

Bluespec SystemVerilog (BSV) is a declarative hardware description language based on a synthesizable subset of System Verilog. Developing with BSV means so far to use scripts for existing editors, which enable highlighting and seldom support of the BSV compiler. The absence of a real IDE for BSV makes writing programs an inconvenient task.



This project tries to improve this by providing an BSV Eclipse plugin. Besides code highlighting, it includes project management, and the error feedback from the BSV compiler. To avoid unnecessary and time consuming compiler runs, an BSV parser, which is generated with JastAdd, is also provided. By this means, it is possible to parse source less while editing. The parser supports the user immediately with error feedback, before the compiler is started, and with a concrete syntax tree, which is displayed in the Eclipse outline view. Additionally, the whole build process can be automated with Eclipse. In this way, the compiler run time is reduced significantly, which enables the developer to spend more time on programming.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Document type

Report

Publisher

Lund University

Topic

  • Computer Science

Keywords

  • hardware language
  • JastAdd
  • Eclipse
  • Bluespec
  • System Verilog

Status

Unpublished

Report number

ES-St-0034

Research group

  • ESDLAB