Pending tasks

1   Pending tasks

• add shortcuts for reading & writing VPI delay values

• GHDL simulator supports VPI
  • need way to invoke VPI tasks from VHDL, like $ruby_init();

    No need for system tasks/functions. Ruby-VPI uses callbacks now!

• add instructions for using ruby-debug with a graphical debugging tool or IDE like RadRails

• write section about code coverage and prototyping in manual

• clean up the teriminology section… unnecessary

• write unit tests for the non-VPI libraries like integer.rb and float.rb

2   Finished tasks

• add support for ESL prototyping (like SystemC)

• decouple code generation with $RUBYLIB and erb

• change should_be to should_equal in examples

• add support for GPL Cver in the test runner template

• build ruby-vpi once to generate all .so files
  • test runner should not rebuild ruby-vpi every time

• distribute as a GEM, binary, and source
  • use RUBYLIB to bypass rubygems site installation for local testing. otherwise have to build & install gem every time!
  • move stuff from lib/ into lib/ruby-vpi/

• integrate RCov for code-coverage statistics

• method_missing for Design class

• define handled methods in Vpi::method_missing for faster response
  • this has been verified as bottleneck from profiling data

• make RCov correctly profile the code and report useful coverage metrics…

• add support for VPI callbacks which execute Ruby blocks

3   Obsolete tasks

• smarter test generation, which adjusts to user modifications in previously generated output

  Just use a smart merging tool like kdiff3.

• interactive console IRB wrapper for spec (just like Breakpoints in Rails)

  Use the ruby-debug library with debugger command for breakpoints instead!

• need to dump signal values when expectation fails in rSpec

  You can use the interactive debugger instead.

  • maybe a waveform dump will also help

    After reading some RTL verification books, this is not necessarily true.