Hierarchy

Hierarchy extraction is done via Verilog-Perl vhier.

Visualize with outline-minor-mode and outshine.

Installation

• For Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install libverilog-perl

• Others: https://github.com/veripool/verilog-perl#installation

Provided functions and customization:

Extraction

By default verilog-ext-vhier-current-file will look at the list of current Verilog open buffers and their corresponding directories to search for modules. In case there is some missing module or an error related with compilation order, you can customize the variable verilog-ext-vhier-command-file and set a command file that can include a list of the files/includes used for hierarchy extraction, according to vhier syntax. E.g:

(setq verilog-ext-vhier-command-file "~/my-verilog-project/commands.f")

And being the content of commands.f:

-y ~/my-verilog-project/some-not-found-dir
~/my-verilog-project/src/my_pkg.sv
+define+SYNTHESIS+0

Customize to provide vhier a command file where you can add missing

• vhier-outshine-mode for hierarchy navigation

TODO

Current navigation implementation uses outshine since it is a very simple method. There are a couple of alternatives to take into consideration to improve current implementation:

• Using the built-in package hierarchy.el

• As an extension to Treemacs: https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs/blob/master/Extensions.org