Open Source VHDL/Verilog Text Processing Software

Powerful Verilog Preprocessor. PLP stands for Perl Pre-processor. Perl is used as "control language" that is embedded in the Verilog code (or any other code) to generate code on the fly. It is used commonly as a Verilog pre-processor but can be used with any target/output language (C, C++, Java, VHDL, plain text etc)

SmGen is a finite state machine (FSM) generator for Verilog. On the other hand, it is not an FSM entry tool. The input is behavioral Verilog with clock boundaries specifically set by the designer. SmGen unrolls this behavioral code and generates an FSM from it in synthesizable Verilog. Clock boundaries are explicitly provided by the designer so there is good control on the expected timing