[PLUG] Xfig question

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Jul 1 17:33:58 UTC 2019


On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Galen Seitz wrote:

> Regarding Tcl/Tk applications, I don't know about Tk usage, but Tcl is
> heavily used in electronic design applications. For better or worse, tools
> used for FPGA and ASIC design use Tcl scripts to drive the build process.
> They may use Eclipse for the GUI, but underneath it's Tcl driving the
> compilation, mapping, and place and route of Verilog and VHDL code.

galen,

Thank you for the insights as I know less than nothing about electronic
design. Tk is alive and well with Python's tkinter and I understand it's
also a built-in widget set with Ruby and, perhaps. other scripting
languages.

Regards,

Rich



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