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Verilog and SystemVerilog support is still in an early phase. It will be enhanced and extended continuously. |
Coding Support
- Full VHDL2008 support (Generic packages, external/hierarchical names, protected types, etc.)
- Refactorization/Renaming (signals, variables, functions, etc.) across the entire project
- Create Testbench Wizard creates VHDL testbenches including top-level files and Modelsim scripts
- Find all references of symbols throughout the entire project
- Syntax highlighting (keywords, strings, characters, numbers, bitstrings, etc.): VHDL 2008
- Semantic highlighting (signals, ports, variables, types, functions, hierarchy/libraries, etc.)
- Hierarchy-View shows your design in a hierarchical manner
- Library-View shows your project organized with respect to the defined libaries
- Parameter Help provides information about function arguments and types
- Type-time naming conventions check
- Type-time error checking and highlighting
- Context sensitive code completion/autocomplete/intellisense support
- Smart indentation
- Smart indentation for copy/paste
- Tooltips/Quickinfo for all kinds of identifiers, all including their location of declaration:
- Signals: Type, default value, range
- Types: Full declaration, recursive type resolving
- Constants/Generics: Type, value
- Ports: Type, default value, range, attributes (input, output, buffer, etc.)
- Enumeration items: Parent type, full type declaration
- Numbers/Bitstrings/etc: Conversion to hex/decimal/binary
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- Number conversion: hex/decimal/binary/etc.
- Expression Evaluator (for contants/default values)
- Commenting/Uncommenting selection
- Code Snippets for...
- Architectures/Entites
- Components
- Functions/Procedures
- Instances
- Packages (Head + Body)
- Synchronous/Asynchronous Processes
- Case Statement (case ... when)
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- Code folding/Outlining: Entities, Architectures, Processes, Functions, Procedures, Packages, Instances, Components, Loops, Generate-Blocks, Blocks, ...
- All default Visual Studio Code Editing features: Block selection, line duplication, line movement, split screen editing, full screen view, search+replace...
Navigation Support
- Find all references of symbols throughout the entire project
- Quicksearch dialog for quickly searching for project files and globally defined symbols (entites, packages, etc)
- Code folding/Outlining: Entities, Architectures, Processes, Functions, Procedures, Packages, Instances, Components, Loops, Generate-Blocks, Blocks
- Library View: Navigate your libraries hierarchically
- Hierarchy View: Navigate your project by design hierarchy
- Navigation Bars support (design units one the one hand, subentities (process, functions, etc.) on the other hand)
- Tuple highlighting: Matching braces, if-then-elsif-else-end, process-begin-end, case-when-end, etc.
- Goto Declaration for all identifiers where applicable (e.g., components, packages, etc.)
- Goto Definition for all identifiers of all types (signals, components, types, enums, constants, etc.)
- All default Visual Studio Navigation features: Navigate forward, navigate backward, find, find in files, etc.
- Separate V3S main menu entry for quick access to most important features
Project Setup
- Sophisticated New Project Wizard
- Import from existing Quartus Project
- Import from existing Xilinx Project (xise, xpr)
- Import from File System
- Empty Project
- Sample Project
- Hello-World Project
- Virtual Folders (for additional structure of files outside project directory)
- Linked Folders (Link entire folders to your project)
- Linked Files
- Preferences per file (Content type, notification level, parsing options, etc.)
- Code Statistics per file
- Add new items: VHDL Library file, VHDL Design Unit file
Preferences
- Editable colors for syntax/semantic highlighting
- Configurable naming rules for repective type-time checks
- Configurable notification levels for all code checks
- Configurable settings for code formatting (indenting, newlines, etc.)
- License setup/information
- Syntax coloring presets (puristic, normal, colorful, dark theme)
- Version information, Online update check
- All Visual Studio Preferences affecting code editing and Visual Studio appearance and behavior
Others
- Recommended Extensions which work fine in combination with V3S:
- Productivity Power Tools (Microsoft, free)
- Highlight all occurrences of selected word (Microsoft, free)
- All features Visual Studio offers in addition to editing code files (CVS/SVN/GIT support, etc.)
- Offline license files (no internet connection required)
- Up to four workstations per license