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These directories contain the documentation and source code for the SAVANT
project. The SAVANT project is an effort to build an extensible,
object-oriented intermediate form (IF) for the hardware description
language VHDL (only the '93 language standard). The software developed
under the SAVANT project is freely available under the GNU Public Library
License. WWW pages documenting this project are available at:
http://www.cliftonlabs.com/savant
Feel free to send bug reports, suggestions, or feedback of any sort to
savant-users@cliftonlabs.com. Also, you can join the savant-users mailing
list by sending email to "savant-users-request@cliftonlabs.com" with the
message body "subscribe savant-users <your email address>". If you're
interested in extending SAVANT in any way, or helping to squash bugs, send
email to "savant-devel-request@cliftonlabs.com" with the same body as the
user's list.
Bug reports should get filed in our Bugzilla database, available at:
http://www.cliftonlabs.com/bugzilla
The primary goal of SAVANT is to stimulate research among the VHDL
community by providing an extensible, object-oriented, well-documented
intermediate form (IF) and a freely available analyzer (SCRAM) to convert
VHDL into the IF. Because the IF analyzer is released in source form, the
additional derived classes can be inserted into the C++ class hierarchy.
Thus, user actions can benefit fully from the fact that the IF is
object-oriented. Consequently, no procedural interface is provided or
needed.
The SAVANT project includes several elements of software support (see the
file COMPONENTS in this directory). Instructions for installing the
software are located in the file INSTALL (this directory). The software is
freely available under the terms of the Gnu Public Library license,
included with this release.
SAVANT has been compiled and tested under Linux 2.4. Efforts have been
made to make it portable. If you have patches to allow compilation on
other platforms, if you have success or failures on other platforms, or if
you have any comments at all we'd be interested in hearing them.
Currently, we haven't ported this system to any version of Windows.
SAVANT version 2.0
Clifton Labs Inc. and The University of Cincinnati
savant@cliftonlabs.com
http://www.cliftonlabs.com/savant
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Last Revised: August 13, 2002
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