mixed VHDL/ Python/ C

[glenenglish]

Does anyone else have difficulty getting syntax right when they are writing,  simultaneously, in three different tabs  in an editor, C and  Python and VHDL ?

Is it my old brain, or is this troublesome for everyone ?


wrong line endings
wrong comments wrong "" or '
etc.

[betocool]

I have trouble getting syntax right in one language only! 

I usually have C and Python simultaneously, side by side windows, so it's a matter of which window on which side I'm working at the moment.

VHDL is a completely different beast, I get it wrong most of the time when I run the linter. And then it's either VHDL2008 or something else that's the problem. But between Python and C I think I'm doing mostly alright.

Cheers,

Alberto

[Jeroen3]

How, in 2026, is syntax still an issue with auto-correcting and ai-predicting editors?

[glenenglish]

auto correction etc hmm well they usually dont write what I want, so I have that turned off.
I turn off all the auto bracing , etc also.

[DiTBho]

Why vhdl with C??? What are you doing???

[langwadt]

Why vhdl with C??? What are you doing???

vhdl for the logic, c for the firmware, and python for the pc interface, is probably quite common

[glenenglish]

langwalt , yep very common
VHDL to do the work
C to write some crc/memory file generators, for example
C for firmware  running on the foga fabric processor

Python to handing higher level generation of stimuli, and post analysis of test bench data etc

that's if if dont dabble in HLS ...... where now you are likely to be mixing C++ with arbritrary sized variables.....

[DiTBho]

Softcore or what? Logic? With a MPU???

[glenenglish]

all of them

[Jeroen3]

auto correction etc hmm well they usually dont write what I want, so I have that turned off.
I turn off all the auto bracing , etc also.

Do you also ride a horse to work?   

[rteodor]

Does anyone else have difficulty getting syntax right when they are writing,  simultaneously, in three different tabs  in an editor, C and  Python and VHDL ?

Is it my old brain, or is this troublesome for everyone ?

You could blame the brain but not too much. Try LiteX and you will see that "Thinking in wires Python" is really different than "Thinking in instructions Python". I found that I have the same problem while trying to write in the former Python that is still very new to me.

[glenenglish]

thanks for the pointer to  LiteX

I was not aware of it. I have dabbled in SpinalHDL and MyHDL