Assembling your ownIDE for hardware design

Dr. Ir. Philippe FaesDr. Ir. Hendrik Eeckhaut

Overview

● Eclipse○ What is Eclipse○ Why is it so slow

● Installing○ Organizing Eclipse○ Installing multiple plugins

● Plugins○ Languages○ Create documentation○ Version Control○ Warnings○ Team: Mylyn

● Customization○ Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)

● The Eclipse Marketplace● List of interesting Plugins

What is Eclipse?

● Integrated Development Environment● Community● Modular● Extensible● Multi-language

Industry standard in HW design community

Why is Eclipse so slow?

Startup time is longer than notepad / Vim / ...

but: Think about what you get in return.

Getting on an airplane is a lot slower than getting into your car.

That does not make your car faster than an airplane.

Organizing Eclipse

● One or several Eclipse installations?● Update cycle

○ managed by IT department?○ never update?○ continually update?○ File > Import > Install > From Existing Installation

http://support.sigasi.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/140

● Sharing settings across your team○ http://support.sigasi.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/77

Installing multiple plug-ins

● Share with your colleagues○ Export / Import list of plugins

File > Export > Install > Installed software items ● Managed by your IT department

○ Genuitec SDC○ https://yoxos.eclipsesource.com/○ Eclipse Oomph (new)○ Local mirror

Languages

Dozens of languages supported.Java, most prominently. but also:● C / C++● Tcl ● Python● VHDL / (System)Verilog● XML / HTML / CSS● Wikitext (e.g. Markdown; used for documentation)● and much more...

How to create documentation

● Doxygen (all languages)● JavaDoc (Java)● Sigasi documentation generator (VHDL)

● HTML● Wikitext / Markdown● LaTeX

● See which files have changed since the latest commit

● Commit, annotate (praise), diff

Supporting:● Subversion● GIT● Clearcase● Perforce● ...

Version control

Warnings

● Java: ○ Java annotations:

// @SuppressWarnings(“unused”)

● Language independent:○ MarkerManager:

-- @suppress

● Find tasks (from issue tracker)● Track changes● Track which file you need for a task● Commit to version control, using correct task

reference

For example: GitHub, Trac, Jira, ...

Team connectors: Mylyn

Customization

● External Tools○ run a command, optionally based on selected file

● Custom builder○ automatically run command as part of compilation

● Process output of external tools○ generate warning markers in your source files

● Create a plugin○ plain plugin○ Xtext○ Zest

Domain Specific languages

Refrigerator description

Cooling algorithm

Code Generation

C-code

Documenation

Domain specificsimulator

http://www.voelter.de/data/presentations/RefrigeratorsAndDSLs.pdf

The Eclipse Marketplace

The Eclipse Marketplace is where you find all these nice plugins.

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/ or

Click Help > Eclipse Marketplace…

List of interesting pluginshttps://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/mylyn-wikitext https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/sigasi-vhdl-plugin https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/marker-manager https://eclipse.org/dltk/ (used for Tcl)https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/pydev-python-ide-eclipse https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/open-explorer https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/mousefeed https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclox (for Doxygen)https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/anyedit-tools (editor extensions)

List of interesting plugins

Revision control:https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/egit-git-team-provider https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/subversive-svn-team-providerhttps://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/p4eclipsehttp://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipse-ccase/ clearcase

Mylyn connectorshttp://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/

Free trial

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