HDL Checker VS Code client

Simple client for HDL Checker

Please note that HDL Checker works best when paired with one of the third party supported tools.

HDL Checker can infer the compilation sequence even without a project file. This sequence can also be inspected by hovering over the name of a design unit

Inferred libraries and files can be inspected by hovering over their instantiation

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Installation

1. Install this extension either from this repository or from Visual Studio Marketplace.

2. Install HDL Checker

   pip install hdl-checker --upgrade
   

   or

   pip install hdl-checker --upgrade --user
   

   • When using --user, make sure $HOME/.local/bin on Linux (or equivalent) is in your PATH environment variable!
   • Make sure that you can execute hdl_checker --version

3. HDL Checker works best when paired with one of the supported third party tools

About HDL Checker

HDL Checker is a language server that wraps VHDL/Verilg/SystemVerilog compilers/tools that aims to reduce the boilerplate code needed to set things up. It supports Language Server Protocol or a custom HTTP interface; can infer library VHDL files likely belong to, besides working out mixed language dependencies, compilation order, interpreting some compilers messages and providing some (limited) static checks.