[fedora-electronic-lab] GNUSim8085 v1.3.6 Released

[Aanjhan R]

GNUSim8085 development team is pleased to release version 1.3.6 of its
8085 simulator for Linux and Windows platforms. This is the first
stable version after moving over to launchpad for our project
management. With this release we bring to our users a wide range of
new additions. To read the complete release announcement head here
[1]. We appreciate your continued support in the form of bug reports
(with patches ;)) and general feedback. Feel free to ask questions and
get support through Launchpad's Answers interface. You can join our
development team here - https://launchpad.net/~gnusim8085-devel . We
always have some work. Some key highlights of this release are as
follows

    * The UI is now internationalized. Translations for Arabic,
Asturian, Catalan, Esperanto, French, German, Gujarati, Italian,
Kannada and Spanish languages are now in place.
    * Printing support is added.
    * Improved Windows installer with multi-language interface.
    * Several UI modifications to enhance user experience.
    * A dozen bug fixes.

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/gnusim8085-devel/msg00050.html

Kindly update your distro packages.

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GNUSim8085 devel team

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Aanjhan R wrote:
>  Kindly update your distro packages.
>  
I'll do the update shortly.

I have one question though. The microcontroller 8085 can be VHDL or
Verilog crafted. How much work and what should be done in order to use
gnusim8085 to interact with GTKWave, so that one, who has developed
VHDL or Verilog code, simulated and viewing GTKWave, can use
gnusim8085 (coupled with GTKWave) to debug the RTL.

For me, it's the software guy who would write codes with gnusim8085.
The hardware guy would have assembly test cases to run on after any
RTL code change. I know this is possible with Modelsim (thanks to its
TCL backend :) ), but how far are we to make this possible ?

Chitlesh


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Chitlesh GOORAH
Fedora Electronic Lab
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel

[Aanjhan R]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Chitlesh GOORAH
<chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Aanjhan R wrote:
> > Kindly update your distro packages.
> >
>
>  I'll do the update shortly.
>
>  I have one question though. The microcontroller 8085 can be VHDL or
>  Verilog crafted. How much work and what should be done in order to use
>  gnusim8085 to interact with GTKWave, so that one, who has developed
>  VHDL or Verilog code, simulated and viewing GTKWave, can use
>  gnusim8085 (coupled with GTKWave) to debug the RTL.
>
>  For me, it's the software guy who would write codes with gnusim8085.
>  The hardware guy would have assembly test cases to run on after any
>  RTL code change. I know this is possible with Modelsim (thanks to its
>  TCL backend :) ), but how far are we to make this possible ? 
Very interesting view point. never thought of integrating hardware and
the simulator like this. Till date gnusim8085 has been a tool to learn
fundamentals of computer architecture and ALP using the 8085 proc. We
have wide user base which in turn means loads of schools still use the
8085 to teach fundamentals of microprocessor programming using 8085.

Neverthless, this is an interesting thought and am CC'ing the dev list
for taking this discussion or getting it implemented.

Regards,
Aanjhan