The pyEDAA.CLITool Documentation

Unified interfaces to execute EDA tools via CLI from Python, agnostic to any specific configuration format/object.

Main Goals

• Provide a pythonic solution to construct command line calls for EDA tools based on pyTooling.CLIAbstraction

• Launch CLI tools and connect to STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR for realtime output post-processing.

Features

• Support multiple native platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows.

• Support nested platforms like MSYS2 with MinGW32, MinGW64, UCRT64, Clang64, …

• Find CLI programs either in PATH or specify an exact installation location.

• Generate CLI options in correct order.

• Generate correctly escaped CLI options.

Consumers

This layer is used by:

• 🚧 pyEDAA.Workflow

• 🚧 pyEDAA.Launcher

• 🚧 Open Source Verification Bundle (OSVB)

News

Feb. 2022 - Supporting more Tools

• Added more CLI abstraction.

• Updated to support CLIAbstraction v0.4.0.

Jan. 2022 - GHDL, GTKWave, ModelSim

• Added CLI abstraction for GHDL, GTKWave and ModelSim.

• Prepared structure for other vendors and tools.

Dec. 2021 - Extracted CLITool from pyIPCMI

• The EDA tool abstraction has been extracted from pyIPCMI.

Contributors

• Patrick Lehmann (Maintainer)

• Unai Martinez-Corral

• and more…

License

This Python package (source code) is licensed under Apache License 2.0.
The accompanying documentation is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0).