Main Goals

• Provide abstract information of where a tool is installed and configured on the local machine.
• Find local EDA tool installations and gather all necessary information in a configuration file.
• Support multiple versions and variants of the same tool.
• In case of multiple tool versions/variants select one default installation.
• Allow switching the default version/variant.
• Allow reading and writing such a configuration file via API.
• Allow reading and writing such a configuration file via CLI.

Features

• Find tool installations:
  • at default installation locations (based on operating system).
  • in PATH.
  • via environment variables.
• Support multiple versions of the same tool.
  E.g. Vivado 2018.3, 2021.2
• Support multiple variants of the same tool.
  E.g. ModelSim Altera Edition vs. ModelSim SE vs. QuestaSim
• Configuring a default version/variant per tool.

Condensed View on ToolInformation Class

from pathlib import Path
from pyTooling.Decorators import export

@export
class ToolInformation:
  def __init__(self, installationDirectory: Path, binaryDirectory: Path, version: str = None, edition: str = None): ...

  @property
  def InstallationDirectory(self) -> Path:
    return self._installationDirectory

  @property
  def BinaryDirectory(self) -> Path:
    return self._binaryDirectory

  @property
  def Version(self) -> str:
    return self._version

  @property
  def Edition(self) -> str:
    return self._edition

Examples

from pathlib import Path
from pyEDAA.ToolSetup import Installations

yamlFile = Path("configuration.yml")

installation = Installations(yamlFile)
activeHDL = installation.Aldec.ActiveHDL
activeHDLVersion = activeHDL["10.3"]
print(activeHDLVersion.BinaryDirectory)

Consumers

This layer is used by:

• 🚧 pyEDAA.Workflow

References

• Paebbels/pyIPCMI: pyIPCMI/Simulator/GHDLSimulator.py

Contributors

• Patrick Lehmann (Maintainer)
• Martin Zabel
• Unai Martinez-Corral
• and more...

License

This Python package (source code) is licensed under Apache License 2.0.
The accompanying documentation is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0).

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SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0