FREE HDL EDITOR NOW SUPPORTS UNICODE CHARACTERS

October 2007. HDL Works announced that it released Scriptum 8.0.

HDL Works provides its high end text editor "Scriptum" for free. Scriptum now also supports additional character sets for languages like Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Cyrilic etc.

Engineers can now use there own native character set in the comment area of the language to document their design. Although only the ISO Latin-1 character set is allowed in both VHDL and Verilog language, most EDA tools allow the use of unicode characters in the comment area of the language.

About Scriptum

Scriptum is a text editor focused at HDL design, running on Windows, Linux and Solaris. Using a multiple document window interface combined with tab pages it offers a slick environment to edit VHDL, Verilog and other language files. Even on extremely large files Scriptum offers exceptionally fast editing capabilities. The design language, HDL templates and user interface are fully customizable to create an editor environment that meets the user's needs.

Features and Language support:

Scriptum contains all features one can expect from a professional text editor. The user can profit from syntax coloring for all supported languages, HDL code templates, identifier repeat, block and column selections, selection indenting / de-indenting, selection commenting / un-commenting, line numbering, tabs and spaces conversion, case conversion and white space viewer.
Supported languages are: Verilog, VHDL, Tcl, SystemC, Perl, Java, Edif and C, while additional languages can be added using the Scriptum configuration files.

Availability

Scriptum is available immediately from HDL Works' website www.hdlworks.com.

About HDL Works

HDL Works develops and markets high-performance, intuitive tools for complex HDL design across a wide spectrum of applications. Its software products are available for Windows, Linux and Solaris. HDL Works currently holds EASE, HDL Companion, Scriptum and several translators from various formats to HDL in its product portfolio. HDL Works is headquartered in Ede, The Netherlands, and is privately held.

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EASE, HDL Companion and Scriptum are trademarks of HDL Works.