cocotb is a coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python.

• Read the documentation
• Get involved:
  • Raise a bug / request an enhancement (Requires a GitHub account)
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  • Join the Gitter chat room
• Get in contact: E-mail us
• Follow us on twitter: @PVCocotb

Quickstart

# Install pre-requisites (waveform viewer optional)
sudo yum install -y iverilog python-devel gtkwave

# Checkout git repositories
git clone https://github.com/potentialventures/cocotb.git

# Install cocotb
pip install ./cocotb

# Run the tests...
cd cocotb/examples/endian_swapper/tests
make

# View the waveform
gtkwave waveform.vcd

To use with centos7 and modelsim_ae on user repo:

#add version 3.4 of python sudo yum install python34-libs

#install cd cocotb python34 setup.py install --user

Tutorials and examples

• Endian Swapper tutorial
• Ping using TUN/TAP tutorial
• OpenCores JPEG Encoder example