zamiaCAD - Open Source Platform for Advanced Hardware Design

zamiaCAD is a modular and extensible platform for advanced hardware design, analysis, and research. Its core components are the language independent instantiation graph (IG) data structure, the language dependent frontends generating an IG, and applications working on the IG data structure. The frontends consist of a parser and an elaboration engine. Currently, VHDL has a complete frontend, Verilog only has a parser. Applications like a simulator and an eclipse GUI are built on top of the IG and potentially language dependent structures like the abstract syntax tree. Currently, the zamiaCAD platform consists of more than 200k lines of Java code. More details

There are three user categories of the zamiaCAD platform:

• developers writing EDA tools
• endusers using EDA tools coming with the platfrom
• researches prototyping research algorithms

The most important zamiaCAD features are

• IDE for VHDL: eclipse plugin, code is scalable and has handled very large industrial designs, usable, if prepared to report bugs. For details, see the tutorial for details
• Simulator support: with external simulator and vcd files, usable to display waveform and relate values to source code. A complete, standards-compliant built-in simulator is under development. While it is not complete yet and has not been tuned for performance, it already offers very quick startup and turnaround times and is a key tool providing for quick, interactive development of smaller hardware designs and cores.
• Synthesis: Code for generating RTL graph is currently under early development

The zamiaCAD project currently aims for

• EDA developers and researchers participating in the development of the project
• Testers working with the zamiaCAD IDE, thus testing zamia platform and applications, and willing to write bugreports with small VHDL testcases showing the problems
• Companies looking for commercial support and development for the zamiaCAD platform or tools

To participate in the project please contact us through the mailing lists, through the forums, or through our support mail address, see the contact page

Feedback of any kind is very welcome.

Update
Updated FST library support.

Update

There are many "firsts" in this release of Electric:

• This is the first release of Electric from Oracle.
• This is the first release of Electric that uses the Maven build system to ensure that all dependencies are found.
• This is the first release of Electric as a Java Web Start application.
• This is the first release of Electric that offers access to the developer's source code repository.
• This is the first release of Electric that includes Scala code as well as Java code.

Also new in this release are multithreaded Routing tools from the University of Karlsruhe.

A repository for Open Hardware designs, especially those with a link to experimental physics, funded by CERN. It is designed to allow collaboration between different teams of developers, and promises peer review, design reuse, collaboration with industry, and a sense of community and fun.