Nicotb Document

Index

• Project page
• Document
  • Build Nicotb
  • Basic types of Nicotb
  • Examples
  • Standalone mode
  • Compare with cocotb
• Development Guide
  • Tutorial
  • VPI

Introduction

Nicotb aims to provide a tiny but extensible framework for Python-Verilog co-simulation through VPI which:

• Maximize the use of existing popular libraries,
• Unify and simplify the interface between Python & Verilog.

Caveat

I use Nicotb in my own project(s), and it's enough for simulating a DNN (CNN) accelerator and connecting with a DRAM simulator. However, this project still has many TODOs:

• More complete runtime error checking and more verbose message,
• more abundant event schedule and sync primitives,
• support for more protocols and more examples and
• check on more platforms.

If you are looking at a developed Python co-simulation framework, please Google Cocotb, and I also make a comparison here.