What is the importance of PERL language for VLSI design engineer?

[shiv_emf]

Hi,
what is the importance of PERL language for VLSI design engg !! .. is it necessary for all professionals who do CODING ?

 

[risccpu]

perl

It is very useful to work as a tool to control vlsi flow.

 

[maksya]

perl

Not only for design flow, but for automatisation of any procedures.

 

[shiv_emf]

perl

yes after posting this topic.. i hav searched for related thread .. i got da info !!

i am learning PERl ... which is da BEST book for Beginners?

 

[giri_lp]

Re: perl

programming the perl by larry wall is a good one

 

[sp]

perl

in my opinion... perl is quite efficient to do the automation in verification... wrapper..

it is also used as an in-house tools to generate HDL code base on sch...


sp

 

[ray123]

Re: perl

perl is a must for a VLSI designer.
you can use perl to generate repetitive RTL coding for you.
you can use perl to generate your simulation input/output data.
you can use perl to write a script to check your simulation result.

 

[tandr]

Re: perl

Yes , perl is a usful tool . U can use it to post process the netlist to extract
the information you need and creat a report or someting wasting your
many time

 

[au_sun]

Re: perl

Perl is used a important tool for TEXT processing
(thats the reson it is used along with VLSI Tools)

It saves a lot of time in scripting and automates the process in VLSI Design flow.

 

[nipoon]

perl

yes it is absolutely essential to learn a scripting language (not necessary to restrict to perl) for Vlsi, to explain you in a simple way , for a trivial thing like compiling your project u need to compile so many files (also their order is very important) this stuff can become a headache if u dont ease it with a script which can do the task for you like an obedient servant....

basically all the things that a script does (mostly used for file handling) can be done manually but time consumed will be exponentially high.

 

[shiv_emf]

perl

How about Tcl language ?? whts da application of tcl ??

 

[incisive]

Re: perl

tcl is only used to control the tool not the other logic.

 

[zbwqiang]

Re: perl

language is not important, but the method.

 

[vinod_cheedella]

Re: perl

Yes, Perl is a very good handy tool for your work, irrespective of design or verification..
once you learn the basics, you can minimise your work.

there is a topic in perl, Regular Expressions does a lot for the automation.
Basically Perl is mostly used for Text processing as far as I know.
this will help you in searching for the data in the tool generated logs and to change it as per your requirements....

Randomization is very good for verification,
and using perl in additon to this, becomes very easy and fast to build verification environment...

 

[dineshbabumm]

perl

Perl is very helpfull for writting your own scripts.. Its basically a script language with applications not only in vlsi,but in other fields too..

 

[vinod_g]

Re: perl

Can anyone mention good books for perl for begginers and if possible, can u please upload material.

 

[baonguyenpro]

Re: perl

Perl is strong language of string and number

 

[rsrinivas]

perl

perl has the advantage tat it doesn't have a strict syntax as like other tools.
a great tool to work on.

 

[ram]

Re: perl

to use perl in VLSI here are few examples -

1. You can write a perl srcipt which checks the results with golden results at the end of simulation and give pass or fail.
2. You can write interactive scripts to run the intended testcase.
3. You can use it for converting the data from one format to other format

 

[energeticdin]

Re: perl

PERL is useful for automation process. I,e for mainly script language almost used for verification

Dinesh