cocotb is a coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python.

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  • Raise a bug / request an enhancement (Requires a GitHub account)
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• Get in contact: E-mail us
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Installation

Cocotb can be installed by running pip install cocotb.

Quickstart

# Install pre-requisites (waveform viewer optional)
sudo yum install -y iverilog python-devel gtkwave

# Checkout git repositories
git clone https://github.com/potentialventures/cocotb.git

# Install cocotb
pip install ./cocotb

# Run the tests...
cd cocotb/examples/endian_swapper/tests
make

# View the waveform
gtkwave waveform.vcd

Tutorials and examples

• Endian Swapper tutorial
• Ping using TUN/TAP tutorial
• OpenCores JPEG Encoder example