[ANN] Ruby-VPI 11.0.0

[Suraj Kurapati]

Ruby-VPI is a Ruby interface to Verilog VPI. It lets you create
complex Verilog test benches easily and wholly in Ruby.

Website: http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org

Install: gem install ruby-vpi


Version 11.0.0 (2006-11-05)

Summary

This release shortens generated Ruby benches and uses the
less confusing notation for defining singleton methods in
generated designs and prototypes.

Notice

• The arguments for the RubyVPI.init_bench method have
changed.

• generate_test.rb no longer emits undocumented status
indicators: name and format.

• The source code is no longer distributed as a zip
package, because it seems to be quite underutilized in
comparison to the tgz and gem packages.

Detail

• Generated Ruby benches have been shortened to just one
line of code!

• The less confusing notation of

def some_object.a_singleton_method
do_stuff
end

is now used instead of the

class << some_object
def a_singleton_method
do_stuff
end
end

notation.
â–¡ The tutorial and examples have been updated
accordingly.

• The pipelined ALU example now has an updated
IntegerGenerator class.