Schematics conversion into valid Verilog code

[caius]

I successfully use Kicad since many years, I love it and I think I'll never switch to something else.I was just wondering if there is some tool to convert Kicad schematics into valid Verilog code that you can use in Quartus for example.

[Doctorandus_P]

I also like KiCad, but never used Verilog and do not know what such a program should do.

As KiCad is fully Free & Open Source software there are a lot of "side projects" around KiCad. From extracting component data from PDF's. scripts for generating netlists, tools for generating different kind of BOM lists and many more.

Some are well maintained, others are in varying levels of bitrot.
I've seen pages on github where some people kept lists of such tools of external projects around KiCad.

File formats in KiCad are also Open and pretty easily readable ASCII, and tools / libaries for writing those files are of course also a part of the KiCad project.

But what sort of level of conversion are you looking for?
Just a netlist thing, or do you want it to automatically insert a softcore if you use a uC in your schematic?

[caius]

But what sort of level of conversion are you looking for?
Just a netlist thing, or do you want it to automatically insert a softcore if you use a uC in your schematic?

Yes, I woul like something able to convert schematics into valid Verilog code that then I can compile to program CPLDs (like Atera MAX7000 or Atmel ATF15XX)

[ebastler]

Would this work as a starting point?
https://github.com/efarres/KiCad-HDL

(No personal experience with it at all, just found it via Google.)

[rea5245]

I just released a KiCad plugin that generates Verilog from a schematic. You can see it at https://github.com/galacticstudios/KiCadVerilog

[bson]

Why would you not use the built-in logical operators for gates, flip-flops and such?

[rea5245]

Why would you not use the built-in logical operators for gates, flip-flops and such?

It depends what your goal is.

My goal was to make a homebrew CPU using off-the-shelf parts. So I made a schematic using those parts, then converted it to Verilog and simulated it before actually buying everything and building it.