Tool VHD2XML

Tool VHD2XML translates VHDL source to XML representing abstract syntactic tree. Compiler grammar is based on VHD2CA translator. Parser generator of this tool is library Python Lex-Yacc version 2.3. Output XML is defined in this XML schema.

Developed by: Zdeněk Řehák (functionality), Aleš Smrčka (compiler grammar)

Requirements

POSIX OS, Python>=2.3.

Usage

$ ./vhd2xml.py file(s)
file .. vhdl file

Relevant files in package VHDLVERIF:

• vhd2xml.py
• lex.py*
• yacc.py*

* files from Python Lex-Yacc library

Version history

Version 1.1 beta

Released 29th October 2008

New features:

• multiple file arguments
• xml schema validation tags

Bug fix:

• id & object elements (many changes of grammar and xml schema):
  • constant, variable, signal and file declaration
  • type identifier
  • object, record, aggregate expression
  • procedure, function call
  • signal, variable assignment
• declaration semicolon duplicate
• missing optional declaration list in function and procedure declaration
• incomplete use clause

Version 1.0 beta

Released 1st October 2008

New features:

• first release (full functionality)