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Key shortcut reminder popups in Eclipse
Using keyboard shortcuts makes you a lot more efficient compared to using your mouse. But how to learn all shortcuts in an unobstructive and efficient way?The users of our standalone VHDL development...
View ArticleSigasi's VHDL Eclipse plugin ready for new Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)
Last week the Eclipse Foundation released a new version of Eclipse, called Helios. The Sigasi team was prepared for this release, and included the necessary changes in last month's release.read more
View ArticleSummertime: trial period doubled
It's summertime and things in this part of the world are slowing down. This is an excellent time to try out some new tooling. We are taking a closer look at Git, Scala and some other cool stuff.At the...
View ArticleOrganizing legacy projects
Note This article was originally written for Sigasi 1.0. The general concepts still apply, but you will need to change some details. Let us know if you need more help with this.This post explains how...
View ArticlePerformance improvements
For the upcoming release of Sigasi's VHDL Eclipse plugin, we have reviewed the performance of our product for some very big VHDL projects. Before I talk about the performance improvements, I will first...
View ArticleEven more performance improvements
In our latest release we focussed development on improving the performance of our VHDL compiler so that Sigasi HDT can give faster feedback. We optimized VHDL analysis so that both the full build and...
View ArticleUse Sigasi HDT as default VHDL editor in Xilinx ISE
Since the latest release of Sigasi HDT it is possible to open VHDL files from the command line. This enables you to more easily use Sigasi HDT's superior VHDL editing functionally in combination with...
View ArticleTricking your Mac in to Believing it can run ModelSim
Disclaimer 1: This is in no way a crack; we're not messing with ModelSim! You'll need a legal copy and a valid license, which you can get from your Mentor Graphics sales rep, or (a limited version,...
View ArticleSigasi Standalone on Ubuntu 11.04 and later
A user reported that he had problems with Sigasi 2 on the latest versions of Ubuntu. Most menu items were missing and the menu bar did not appear. It turns out this is an issue with the unity menu.read...
View ArticleEclipse TCL support in Sigasi
Tcl is the de facto standard for scripting in EDA software. So every hardware designer has to deal with Tcl. Luckily for us there is an Eclipse Tcl plugin available that can help us read and write Tcl...
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Sigasi HDT with the new Xilinx ISE 12 (updated)
Update: Sigasi HDT has been updated to support Xilinx ISE 12 without modifications: release notesXilinx just released a new version of Xilinx ISE Suite.Because the internal directory structure of this...
View ArticleFree VHDL plugin for Eclipse?
Last month, we released our VHDL IDE as an Eclipse VHDL plugin. Before that, it was only available as a standalone product. There were two main reasons for releasing the VHDL Eclipse plugin version....
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