FAUHDLI(1)

✨ FAUHDLI(1) — the fauhdli manual, but make it make sense ✨

okay bestie, welcome to FAUHDLI(1) 💖 (yes section 1, and yes the manual name slot in the header was literally a [FIXME: manual] placeholder, we love a work in progress, we don't judge 🫶)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fauhdli — the interpreter that runs the intermediate code your fauhdlc build spat out. lowkey the second half of the whole VHDL situation 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

fauhdli [ --debug ] { --simulate top-entity } [ --output vcd-file ]
        [ --trace entity ...] { input-file }

look at her. the curly braces are doing heavy lifting. periodt.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so fauhdli is an interpreter for the intermediate code files that come out of the VHDL compiler fauhdlc. that's it, that's the whole vibe: compiler does the compiling, fauhdli does the running. iconic duo behavior, fr fr ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). a summary of options is included below, and obviously i'm about to walk you through every single one because i would never leave you hanging 💖

• -d, --debug — turn on debugging, which prints out line numbers for every intermediate code line that gets processed. it's giving "narrator voice" 🔍
• -s, --simulate top-entity — use top-entity as the start of the simulation, e.g. "work:test_bench". this is where the main character energy begins 👑
• -o, --output vcd-file — write the signal changes into vcd-file. the result can be viewed with gtkwave. cute little wave files for your cute little waveforms 🌈
• -t, --trace entity — trace all signals in entity. use it in conjunction with -o. may be specified more than once, so go off, stack them, no cap 🦋

ngl, -t without -o is not the move. the manual says use them together. i'm just the messenger 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

fauhdlc(1) — the other half of the friendship bracelet 💞

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🍓 CONTACT 🍓

please report all bugs to FAUmachine Team <info@faumachine.org> 💌

FAUmachine/fauhdlc Homepage[1] ✨

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

FAUmachine Team 👑

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2009 FAUmachine Team Developed at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

FAUhdlc comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. FAUhdlc is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See COPYING for details.

bestie the warranty is literally ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, all caps, they were not playing 😭

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💀 NOTES 💀

1. FAUmachine/fauhdlc Homepage http://www.faumachine.org

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and that's the whole page!! written by the FAUmachine Team, dated 07/14/2020, and honestly? slay. go simulate something, you've got this 💖✨🎀