The Framework runs on python3 and requires the user to have the following packages installed:
pandas, six, tabulate
The VHDL Test Framework is not part of the main repository. It is only at the following repository:
After this install the framwork by running the following command from within the project directory:
python ./vhdl_build_system/vhdl_make_build_system.py --remotePath /home/ise/xilinx_share2/GitHub/klm_scrod_vas --ssh xilinxwith:
--remotePath... is the path on the Xilinx VM to the project (it assumes that the VM has mounted the project as a network share).
--ssh... is the ssh configuration which allows to connect to the VM. It is important that the Public/Private keys are exchanged so that this configuration can be called without entering a password.
this will create a bunch of scripts in the current directory as well as a xml config file in the build folder.
after this the first test should be to run the test cases for this one can use the following script:
./run_test_cases.sh
if no argument is given the script will run through all Test cases. If a specific test case file was given as argument it will only run this one file.
the result can be found in the build folder
build/tests.md
After the build system is installed one can directly make Simulations with Isim. For this one has to execute:
./make_simulation.sh Test_bench_name
the simulation can then be run by executing:
./run_simulation.sh TEST_BENCH_NAME
this will compile and execute the simulation.