Emacs VHDL Mode

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Release Notes 3.33

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Update History (last update: 2008-11-27)

Features

• Syntax highlighting
• Indentation
• Template insertion (electrification)
• Insertion of file headers
• Insertion of user-specified models
• Port translation / testbench generation
• Structural composition
• Configuration generation (new in 3.33)
• Sensitivity list updating
• File browser
• Design hierarchy browser
• Source file compilation (syntax analysis)
• Makefile generation
• Code hiding
• Word/keyword completion
• Block commenting
• Code fixing/alignment/beautification
• Postscript printing
• VHDL'87/'93 and VHDL-AMS supported
• Comprehensive menu
• Fully customizable
• Works under GNU Emacs (recommended) and XEmacs
• Screenshot

Release Notes 3.33

New Features

Configuration Declaration Generation

• Automatic generation of a configuration declaration for a design.

Remarks

• Find more detailed information about new/changed user options and other important changes in the online release notes (see VHDL Mode menu).

See also release notes of previous releases.

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VHDL Mode 3.33 (GNU Emacs 20/21, XEmacs 20/21):

vhdl-mode-3.33.27.tar.gz (27 Nov 08, size 322k)

vhdl-mode-3.33.27.zip (27 Nov 08, size 327k)

VHDL Mode 3.32 (GNU Emacs 20/21, XEmacs 20/21):

vhdl-mode-3.32.21.tar.gz (23 Sep 04, size 407k)

vhdl-mode-3.32.21.zip (23 Sep 04, size 422k)

VHDL Mode 3.31 (GNU Emacs 20/21, XEmacs 20/21):

vhdl-mode-3.31.25.tar.gz (21 Nov 01, size 382k)

vhdl-mode-3.31.25.zip (21 Nov 01, size 398k)

VHDL Mode 3.30 (GNU Emacs 20, XEmacs 20/21):

vhdl-mode-3.30.tar.gz (11 Dec 99, size 293k)

vhdl-mode-3.30.zip (11 Dec 99, size 297k)

VHDL Mode 3.10 (GNU Emacs 19):

vhdl-mode-3.10.tar.gz (3 Oct 97, size 79k), not supported anymore

VHDL'02 syntax as HyperText:

vhdl02_syntax.html (size 54k)

VHDL'93 syntax as HyperText:

vhdl93_syntax.html (size 51k)

VHDL'87 syntax as HyperText:

vhdl87_syntax.html (size 44k)

VHDL-AMS syntax as HyperText:

vhdlams_syntax.html (size 63k)

Maintenance

• submit bug reports, questions, and enhancement requests,
• subscribe to the `vhdl-mode-announce' mailing list for information about new VHDL Mode releases,
• subscribe to the `vhdl-mode-victims' mailing list if you wish to participate in beta testing of new releases.

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Useful Packages

• Display line numbers: Linum

Update History

3.33.27 (2008-11-27)

• Enhancement: Special syntax highlighting (option `vhdl-highlight-special-words') now allows to highlight words inside comments ("In comments" switch in option `vhdl-special-syntax-alist').
• Bug fix: Fix comment filling in Emacs 22.
• Bug fix: Minor bug fixes in sensitivity list updating.

3.33.26 (2008-08-07)

• Enhancement: TAB now indents region if a region is active (selected). Compatible with new standard behavior in Emacs 23 (not in XEmacs).
• Bug fix: Fix indentation of clock templates in testbench insertion.
• Bug fix: Improve highlighting of component instantiations.
• Bug fix: Fix error "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size" in Emacs 21.

3.33.25 (2008-06-04)

• Enhancement: Add / update support for VHDL-AMS packages.
  • Include templates for package use clause insertion.
  • Add highlighting / word expansion for standardized constant and types.
• Enhancement: Update reserved words for math packages.
• Enhancement: Highlighting / case-fixing for standardized constants.
• Bug fix: Fix indentation for lines with '^L' (formfeed) character.
• Bug fix: Minor bug fixes.

3.33.24 (2008-05-08)

• Enhancement: Add "authorfull" keyword to VHDL header template (inserts author full name without login name, email address).
• Enhancement: New option to also add array indices and record fields in sensitivity list instead of just the signal names (option `vhdl-array-index-record-field-in-sensitivity-list').
• Bug fix: Use correct initialization values for "integer" and "real" types in pasting ports as testbench.
• Bug fix: Fix handling of "terminal" type (VHDL-AMS) in pasting ports.
• Bug fix: Minor bug fixes.

3.33.23 (2008-04-01)

• Compatibility: Change some key bindings for Emacs compatibility (i.e. not use `C-c [a-zA-Z]' bindings in a major mode, reserved as user bindings). Most importantly the key binding for `vhdl-comment-uncomment-region' changed from `C-c c' to `C-c C-c'. Other changed bindings are listed in the integrated release notes (Menu "VHDL" -> "Documentation" -> "Release Notes").

3.33.22 (2007-12-21)

• Bug fix: Fix sensitivity list updating for record fields.
• Enhancement: Add missing keywords "hwrite", "owrite", "hread", "oread".
• Bug fix: Minor bug fixes.

3.33.21 (2007-08-07)

• Bug fix: Fix template for "variable" keyword inside labeled process.

3.33.20 (2007-07-27)

• Bug fix: Small bug fixes in code alignment and case fixing.
• Distribution: Removed out-of-date patches of speedbar and hideshow packages.

3.33.19 (2007-06-22)

• Bug fix: Also consider "==" VHDL-AMS assignment operator in indentation.
• Bug fix: Correctly adjust case of keywords after "end".

3.33.18 (2007-05-15)

• Bug fix: Minor bug fixes, enhancements.

3.33.17 (2006-12-12)

• Bug fix: Handle extended identifiers in code beautification.

3.33.16 (2006-09-19)

• Bug fix: Fix indentation of comments at beginning of line.
• Bug fix: Not align keywords inside comments.

3.33.15 (2006-09-15)

• Enhancement: Indent comment lines like following (instead of preceding) code line. Gives nicer indentation when comments belong to the code that follows. Old behavior can be restored using option `vhdl-indent-comment-like-next-code-line'.

3.33.14 (2006-08-21)

• Bug fix: Fix error message regexp for Modelsim.

3.33.13 (2006-08-16)

• Enhancement: Customize Makefile default targets (new option `vhdl-makefile-default-targets').
• Enhancement: Add support for "ADVance MS" compiler.
• Bug fix: Minor bug fixes.

3.33.12 (2006-05-23)

• Bug fix: Fix indentation bug for simultaneous if/case-statements.
• Enhancement: Enhance code alignment.

3.33.11 (2006-05-15)

• Bug fix: Fix indentation bug for argument lists.
• Bug fix: Fix code alignment/beautifying bugs.

3.33.10 (2006-05-11)

• Enhancement: Use relative instead of absolute path for files when compiling (`vhdl-compile').
• Bug fix: Fix indentation bug.

3.33.9 (2006-04-12)

• Enhancement: Add support for "Aldec" simulator.
• Enhancement: Update to VHDL'02 standard (add 'protected' keyword, but indentation not supported yet).
• Bug fix: Minor bug fixes.

3.33.8 (2005-12-20)

• Bug fix: Undo comment filling fix for XEmacs (broke beautification).

3.33.7 (2005-12-09)

• Enhancement: Better support for extended identifiers.
• Enhancement: Add compilation support for Xilinx compiler.
• Bug fix: Comment filling in XEmacs.
• Bug fix: Fix VHDL-AMS "case...use" and "if...use" constructs.
• Bug fix: Minor bug fixes.

3.33.5 (2005-06-22)

• Bug fix: Incompatibility issue with XEmacs, minor fixes.

3.33.4 (2005-05-17)

• Bug fix: Identify signals read as index in multi-dimensional arrays in sensitivity list updating.

3.33.3 (2005-02-25)

• Enhancement: Set default project (at startup) within "Project" menu.
• Enhancement: Handle extended identifiers for generics in port copying.
• Enhancement: Query for target in "Make" command, use last target as default.
• Enhancement: Minor enhancements and bug fixes.

3.33.2 (2004-10-01)

• Enhancement: Handle c-preprocessor directives (fontification, indentation, etc.).

3.33.1 (2004-09-30)

• New release: Configuration declaration generation.

3.32.21 (2004-09-23)

• Bug fix: Fix infinite loop bug in code beautification.
• Bug fix: Correctly identify signals used as array index as read signals in sensitivity list updating.

3.32.20 (2004-02-16)

• Enhancement: Separate customization of entity and architecture file names for testbenches (new options 'vhdl-testbench-entity-file-name' and 'vhdl-testbench-architecture-file-name').
• Documentation: Add note that package and testbench files can be placed in separate directories (see options 'vhdl-package-file-name', 'vhdl-testbench-entity-file-name' and 'vhdl-testbench-architecture-file-name').
• Bug fix: Improve indentation of "record" type declaration.
• Bug fix: Whitespace fixing in comments (beautification).

3.32.19 (2003-12-18)

• Bug fix: Beautify inserts too many spaces after comma/string.

3.32.18 (2003-11-17)

• Bug fix: Define alias for missing 'member-ignore-case' function in XEmacs.

3.32.17 (2003-09-17)

• Enhancement: Add Makefile generation information for Cadence NC.
• Bug fix: Ignore different case of signals read in a process for sensitivity list updating.

3.32.16 (2003-09-08)

• Bug fix: Case change on identifiers in port translation.

3.32.15 (2003-08-04)

• Bug fix: Some signals were not correctly detected as being read.

3.32.14 (2003-04-21)

• Bug fix: Include aliases, not include formal parameters in sensitivity lists.

3.32.13 (2003-03-12)

• Bug fix: Beautification of character literals (e.g. ':').

3.32.12 (2003-02-28)

• Bug fix: Indentation of comment line with string inside.

3.32.11 (2002-11-12)

• Enhancement: Allow changing case when deriving file names from VHDL unit names (option `vhdl-file-name-case').

3.32.10 (2002-10-27)

• Bug fix: Indentation after comment lines in XEmacs 21.4+ (works around buggy `forward-comment' built-in function in XEmacs 21.4).
• Minor enhancements.

3.32.9 beta (2002-07-01)

• New feature: Subprogram translation.
• New feature: Code filling.
• New feature: Code statistics.
• Enhancement: Hierarchy scanning finds component instantiations with no generic/port maps (VHDL'93 syntax only using keywords "component", "entity" or "configuration").
• Enhancement: Case-insensitive wiring (structural composition).
• Enhancement: Better error handling and messaging.
• Enhancement: Support for "Speedwave" compiler.
• Fixes and minor enhancements.

3.32.8 beta (2002-03-15)

• Bug fix: Commenting region in Emacs 20.
• Enhancement: `global-font-lock-mode' controls automatic buffer highlighting (GNU Emacs).
• New feature: "Port -> Reverse Direction" to reverse direction of ports for copying (useful in testbenches).

3.32.7 beta (2001-12-12)

• Fixes and minor enhancements.

3.31.25, 3.32.6 beta (2001-11-21)

• Emacs 21 related bug fixes.