Skip to content
CadHut

CadHut

FPGA and Circuit Design

  • News
  • Articles
  • FPGA
    • Xilinx
    • Intel (Altera)
    • Lattice
    • MicroSemi
  • About
    • About Us
    • MeetUp Group

Category: HowTo

Posts describing how to do something

Add NVC Support to Emacs VHDL

Posted by Iain Waugh on 11 May, 2024 in HowTo, Intermediate, VHDL

Once you’ve compiled the NVC simulation tool, you can customise Emacs to have it as one of the standard list of compilers. Add these lines to the “vhdl-compiler-alist” section of your Emacs config file:

How to Build the NVC VHDL Simulator With Verilog and TCL Support

Posted by Iain Waugh on 11 May, 2024 in Articles, HowTo, Verilog, VHDL

NVC is a very interesting open-source HDL simulator for VHDL. You can run tests and view waveforms using GTKWave. CocoTB will start supporting it from the v2.0 release, but you can get hold of it now if you clone the…

How To Install OpenROAD And Other VLSI Tools Under Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, Mint 21 or Zorin OS

Posted by Iain Waugh on 29 May, 20231 December, 2024 in Articles, ASIC, HowTo

This HowTo will take you from a blank/brand new install of Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, Linux Mint 21, KDE neon or Zorin OS up to the point where you can run OpenROAD to make a GDS-II file of an RTL design….

How To Install OpenROAD And Other VLSI Tools Under Ubuntu 22.04 Or Linux Mint 21

Posted by Iain Waugh on 7 August, 202219 December, 2022 in Articles, ASIC, HowTo, Intermediate, VHDL

This HowTo will take you from a blank/brand new install of Ubuntu 22.04 or Linux Mint 21 up to the point where you can run OpenROAD to make a GDS-II file of a design.

Live Stream for Working With CocoTB

Posted by Iain Waugh on 13 January, 202113 January, 2021 in Digital Logic, HowTo, Intermediate

Alex Forencich has posted a livestream video to YouTube which nicely introduces CocoTB and demonstrates what it’s good for and how to use it. Click through for the video.

Emacs Logo

Installing Emacs For VHDL Work

Posted by Iain Waugh on 27 September, 20207 August, 2022 in Articles, Beginners, HowTo, Intermediate, VHDL

This article shows you how to set up Emacs for VHDL work and make it behave like a regular Windows text editor

How To Install Vivado/Vitis Using Just The Command-Line

Posted by Iain Waugh on 8 September, 20209 August, 2022 in Advanced, Articles, HowTo, Intermediate

Can Vivado/Vitis be installed without using the GUI installer? Fortunately, the answer is “yes”.

How To Set Up And Use MSys2

Posted by Iain Waugh on 2 August, 20207 July, 2021 in Articles, Beginners, HowTo

Windows developers often need to use Unix-style commands and build software binary executables from source code.
This article shows you how to install MSys2 and how to use it for development.

How To Read VHDL Code

Posted by Iain Waugh on 26 July, 20207 July, 2021 in Articles, Beginners, HowTo, VHDL

HDL languages like VHDL and Verilog are not like normal programming languages. This post describes how to read VHDL code and synthesise it in your head.

Categories

  • Advanced
  • Articles
  • ASIC
  • Beginners
  • Digital Logic
  • FPGA
  • HowTo
  • Intermediate
  • News
  • RISC-V
  • Signal Integrity
  • Verilog
  • VHDL
Copyright © 2025 CadHut. All Rights Reserved.
Fashify Theme by FRT