ruby-vpi 16.0.1 → 17.0.0

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   <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org</link>
   <description>Ruby-VPI is a Ruby interface to IEEE 1364-2005 Verilog VPI and a platform for unit testing, rapid prototyping, and systems integration of Verilog modules through Ruby. It lets you create complex Verilog test benches easily and wholly in Ruby.</description>
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-    <title>Version 16.0.1 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a16.0.1</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a16.0.1</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;16.0.1&quot;&gt;Version 16.0.1 (2007-05-27)&lt;/h1&gt;
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-	&lt;p&gt;This release restores support for installation on Mac &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;OS X&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Mark Thompson &lt;a href=&quot;http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;#38;aid=11125&amp;#38;group_id=1339&amp;#38;atid=5281&quot;&gt;reported and solved&lt;/a&gt; the problem.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Repairs&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Shared-object files have a file extension of &lt;tt&gt;.so&lt;/tt&gt; in Linux and &lt;tt&gt;.bundle&lt;/tt&gt; on Mac &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;OS X&lt;/span&gt;.  Previously, only the Linux file extension was supported.&lt;/li&gt;
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-    <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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-    <title>Version 16.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a16.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a16.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;16.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 16.0.0 (2007-05-02)&lt;/h1&gt;
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-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds support for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cadence.com/products/functional_ver/nc-verilog/&quot;&gt;Cadence NC-Sim / NC-Verilog&lt;/a&gt; simulator, improves the project website and documentation, simplifies interaction with &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;, and comes with a more permissive license.&lt;/p&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;.ensure_min&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;.ensure_max&lt;/code&gt; methods have been removed from the &lt;tt&gt;ruby-vpi/integer.rb&lt;/tt&gt; library because Ruby already has idioms for these operations: &lt;pre&gt;
-&amp;gt;&amp;gt; 5.ensure_min 10
-=&amp;gt; 10
-&amp;gt;&amp;gt; [5, 10].max
-=&amp;gt; 10
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-&amp;gt;&amp;gt; 5.ensure_max 10
-=&amp;gt; 5
-&amp;gt;&amp;gt; [5, 10].min
-=&amp;gt; 5
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby-VPI is now developed under a &lt;a href=&quot;readme.html#intro.license&quot;&gt;more permissive license&lt;/a&gt; that better reflects my ethical beliefs than &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html&quot;&gt;the previous license&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;New features&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cadence.com/products/functional_ver/nc-verilog/&quot;&gt;Cadence NC-Sim / NC-Verilog&lt;/a&gt; (ncsim) simulator is now supported.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; structures (whose names begin with &amp;#8220;S_&amp;#8221;) now allow initialization of their members through their constructor, in the style of Ruby on Rails. For example, the expression &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;time = &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;S_vpi_time&lt;/span&gt;.new &lt;span style=&quot;color:#A60&quot;&gt;:type&lt;/span&gt; =&amp;gt; &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VpiSuppressTime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; is equivalent to: &lt;pre class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;
-time      = &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;S_vpi_time&lt;/span&gt;.new
-time.type = &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VpiSuppressTime&lt;/span&gt;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Added the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.cbValueChange&lt;/code&gt; method which simplifies the registration of a value-change callback for a particular &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; handle. For instance, the user manual&amp;#8217;s &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#ex..callback&quot;&gt;example of setting up a value-change callback&lt;/a&gt; can now be written as follows: &lt;pre class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;
-&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Counter&lt;/span&gt;.count.cbValueChange &lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; |s_cb_data|
-  puts &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;hello from callback! time=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: #eee&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: #888&quot;&gt;#{&lt;/span&gt;s_cb_data.time.to_i&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: #888&quot;&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt; count=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: #eee&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: #888&quot;&gt;#{&lt;/span&gt;s_cb_data.obj.intVal&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: #888&quot;&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
-&lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;end&lt;/span&gt;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Revised the project website according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://producingoss.com&quot;&gt;Producing &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;OSS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; guidelines.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added instructions for checking out source code and generating documentation.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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-    <title>Version 15.0.2 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a15.0.2</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a15.0.2</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;15.0.2&quot;&gt;Version 15.0.2 (2007-01-22)&lt;/h1&gt;
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-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes problems with linking of the C extension and installation of the gem.&lt;/p&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added checks for &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;POSIX&lt;/span&gt; threads &amp;#38; Ruby libraries before creating makefile. Otherwise the &lt;tt&gt;.so&lt;/tt&gt; files were not being linked to those libraries on the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;MASC&lt;/span&gt; machine!&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;make&lt;/strong&gt; program on the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;MASC&lt;/span&gt; machine does not like an empty Makefile. It was causing gem installation to fail.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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-    <title>Version 15.0.1 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a15.0.1</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a15.0.1</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;15.0.1&quot;&gt;Version 15.0.1 (2007-01-15)&lt;/h1&gt;
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-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes another problem with compilation of the C extension and improves the user documentation&amp;#8217;s appearance.&lt;/p&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Derek Graham reported the problem with compilation of the C extension.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Restored the monkey patch, which was removed in release 14.0.0, for the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SWIG&lt;/span&gt; &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;va_list&lt;/code&gt; problem.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Made table of contents in-line with the content in user documentation.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added printer-friendly stylesheet for user documentation.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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-    <title>Version 15.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a15.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a15.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;15.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 15.0.0 (2007-01-13)&lt;/h1&gt;
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-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes a problem with compilation of the C extension, and makes clock generation code correctly affect Ruby prototypes.&lt;/p&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Derek Graham reported the problem with compilation of the C extension.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::advance_time&lt;/code&gt; method (instead of the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::simulate&lt;/code&gt; method) now invokes the design&amp;#8217;s &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;simulate!&lt;/code&gt; method when prototyping is enabled.
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-	&lt;p&gt;This makes clock generation code (passed to the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RubyVpi&lt;/span&gt;::init_bench&lt;/code&gt; method) affect Ruby prototypes, just as it affects a real Verilog design.&lt;/p&gt;
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-	&lt;p&gt;As a result, Ruby prototypes may need to check for edge-triggering through the new &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.posedge?&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.negedge?&lt;/code&gt; methods. For example, see the &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#fig..counter_proto.rb&quot;&gt;new implementation of the Counter prototype&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;h3&gt;New features&lt;/h3&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Added &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.posedge?&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.negedge?&lt;/code&gt; methods which check if a handle&amp;#8217;s logic value is currently at a positive or negative edge, respectively.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Added &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;S_vpi_time&lt;/span&gt;.integer&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;S_vpi_time&lt;/span&gt;.integer=&lt;/code&gt; methods which access the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;high&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;low&lt;/code&gt; integer fields as a single 64-bit integer.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Added utility methods for accessing the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;value&lt;/code&gt; field in the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;S_vpi_value&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; structure.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Fixed problem with incorrect Ruby library flag in &lt;tt&gt;ext/extconf.rb&lt;/tt&gt;. It happens that the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;mkmf&lt;/code&gt; library determines the correct library flag all by itself!&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Added new &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#usage.prototyping&quot;&gt;prototyping section&lt;/a&gt; to user manual.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Fixed some broken URLs in user documentation.&lt;/li&gt;
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-    <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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-    <title>Version 14.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a14.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a14.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;14.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 14.0.0 (2006-12-30)&lt;/h1&gt;
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-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds support for simulation callbacks, renders Verilog benches &lt;em&gt;fully simplified&lt;/em&gt;, and revises the user manual to reflect major changes.&lt;/p&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::relay_verilog&lt;/code&gt; method has been replaced by &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::simulate&lt;/code&gt;.
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-	&lt;p&gt;Please update you tests accordingly, because invoking the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::relay_verilog&lt;/code&gt; method directly will cause your tests to freeze/hang.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Verilog benches no longer contain any clock generation code. They are now mere skeletons, whose &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; purpose is to instantiate the design under test.
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-	&lt;p&gt;The clock generation code is now contained in the Ruby bench.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;h3&gt;New features&lt;/h3&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RubyVpi&lt;/span&gt;::init_bench&lt;/code&gt; method now gives you &lt;em&gt;complete control&lt;/em&gt; over performing a clock/operation/whatever cycle for your design. This feature allows you to work with multi-clocked designs.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Callbacks are now supported through the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::vpi_register_cb&lt;/code&gt; method. See &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#usage.vpi.callbacks&quot;&gt;the callbacks section in the user manual&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Added the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::advance_time&lt;/code&gt; method, which makes the Verilog simulator simulate a given number of time steps.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Added the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::simulation_time&lt;/code&gt; method, which gives you the current simulation time as a 64-bit integer.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Removed the monkey patch for the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SWIG&lt;/span&gt; &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;va_list&lt;/code&gt; problem&amp;#8212;it no longer occurs.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Cleansed the appearance of the user documentation.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added indices to section headings, just like LaTeX.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Admonition boxes no longer interfere with surrounding text, and they don&amp;#8217;t have big gap above them.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Navigation menu is now elastic (fluid layout).&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;Revised the user manual and added new content.
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-	&lt;li&gt;Moved &amp;#8220;VPI utility layer&amp;#8221; section from background chapter into usage chapter in user manual.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Added a nice introduction to entire manual with links to reference documentation.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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-    <title>Version 13.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a13.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a13.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;13.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 13.0.0 (2006-12-27)&lt;/h1&gt;
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-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes a &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; instability bug, simplifies generated Verilog benches, and purifies the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;API&lt;/span&gt; reference documentation.&lt;/p&gt;
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-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_init&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_relay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; system task/functions have been removed. Generated Verilog benches no longer use them.
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-	&lt;li&gt;To pass your own command-line options to Ruby, set the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RUBYOPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; environment variable before running a test.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;li&gt;You can now choose when &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::relay_verilog&lt;/code&gt; is triggered: upon positive/negative edge of the clock signal, or any other criteria. This is done by passing a block to the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RubyVpi&lt;/span&gt;::init_bench&lt;/code&gt; method (see &lt;a href=&quot;../ref/ruby/classes/RubyVpi.html&quot;&gt;the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;API&lt;/span&gt; reference documentation&lt;/a&gt; for details).&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Fixed a major instability bug that was randomly causing segmentation faults and pthread assertion failures.
-
-	&lt;p&gt;The problem was that the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_init&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; system task/function was mischeviously unlocking a pthread mutex. From then onward, all code assumed that the mutex was still locked&amp;#8212;but in reality, the mutex was already unlocked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Replaced the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_init&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_relay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; system task/functions with callbacks.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Excluded internal stuff from the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;API&lt;/span&gt; reference documentation for Ruby.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Removed system-dependent path &lt;tt&gt;/usr/bin/ruby&lt;/tt&gt; from the tools.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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-  <item>
-    <title>Version 12.1.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a12.1.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a12.1.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;12.1.0&quot;&gt;Version 12.1.0 (2006-12-22)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds interactive debugging support, adds new sections to the user manual, and cleanses some internals.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;tt&gt;lib/ruby-vpi/rspec.rb&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;lib/ruby-vpi/xx.rb&lt;/tt&gt; files have been removed because they are no longer necessary.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;rSpec 0.7.0 or newer is now required because the sample tests utilize the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;should ==&lt;/code&gt; syntax.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h3&gt;New features&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Test runners now support the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;DEBUG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; environment variable, which enables the interactive debugger (ruby-debug) in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.datanoise.com/articles/2006/12/20/post-mortem-debugging&quot;&gt;post-mortem debugging mode&lt;/a&gt;.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;debugger&lt;/code&gt; command can also be used when the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;DEBUG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; environment variable is not activated.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Status messages, which are shown during initialization of a Ruby bench, now appear in your simulator&amp;#8217;s log files.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;ruby-debug is now a gem dependency for Ruby-VPI.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added documentation about &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#usage.test-runner&quot;&gt;test runners&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#usage.debugger&quot;&gt;interactive debugger&lt;/a&gt; in the user manual.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added a &lt;tt&gt;README&lt;/tt&gt; file with hint about where to find the user manual.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Removed code that wasn&amp;#8217;t being used, according to code coverage analysis, from the pipelined &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ALU&lt;/span&gt; sample.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 12.0.2 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a12.0.2</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a12.0.2</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;12.0.2&quot;&gt;Version 12.0.2 (2006-12-18)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes a problem in the 12.0.1 gem, where the &lt;strong&gt;generate_test.rb&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;header_to_ruby.rb&lt;/strong&gt; tools were not being installed properly.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 12.0.1 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a12.0.1</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a12.0.1</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;12.0.1&quot;&gt;Version 12.0.1 (2006-12-18)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes a problem in code coverage analysis.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Mauricio Fernandez helped me solve the problem with code coverage analysis.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;p&gt;Previously, code coverage reports were not providing any useful information because they were being generated &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the test had a chance to run. This problem has been fixed&amp;#8212;code coverage reports are now generated &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the test has finished running.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This problem occurred because I had forgotten that &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Kernel&lt;/span&gt;.at_exit&lt;/code&gt; invokes the blocks passed to it in &lt;em&gt;reverse&lt;/em&gt; order. So, the coverage report was being generated before Test::Unit had a chance to run (it also uses &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Kernel&lt;/span&gt;.at_exit&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 12.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a12.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a12.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;12.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 12.0.0 (2006-12-07)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds support for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2006/10/announcing-test-spec-0-2-a-bdd-interface-for-test-unit.html&quot;&gt;test/spec&lt;/a&gt; library, fixes some bugs, and improves the user manual and generated tests.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Icarus Verilog 0.8 has been demoted to a &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#setup.reqs&quot;&gt;mostly acceptable&lt;/a&gt; status.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Generated Verilog benches no longer supply the &lt;tt&gt;-w&lt;/tt&gt; option to the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_init&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; task.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;ruby-vpi/runner_proxy&lt;/code&gt; library now invokes test runners
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;just before exiting. Thus, you can invoke tasks in the main &lt;tt&gt;Rakefile&lt;/tt&gt; before the test runners are invoked.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;located within any directory that is a descendant of the current working directory.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SIMULATOR_ARGS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; parameter of generated runners has been renamed to &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SIMULATOR_ARGUMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; for clarity.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The automated test generator
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;no longer displays the &lt;strong&gt;backup&lt;/strong&gt; status indicator.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;now supplies a third argument to the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;MERGER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; command.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;no longer replaces existing files with newly generated content during the &lt;strong&gt;update&lt;/strong&gt; action. Instead, it now writes the newly generated output to a &lt;tt&gt;.new&lt;/tt&gt; file and then invokes the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;MERGER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; command.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; class has two new methods: &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;x!&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;z!&lt;/code&gt;, which set the handle&amp;#8217;s logic value to &lt;em&gt;unknown&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;high impedance&lt;/em&gt; respectively.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The tests for the simple up-counter example were randomly failing because the specifications were not asserting the design&amp;#8217;s &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;reset&lt;/code&gt; signal long enough. So the design was getting into weird states and behaving in a non-deterministic way. This problem has been fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual has been revised and some minor issues have been fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h3&gt;Test generation&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The automated test generator accepts new command-line options:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;--test-unit&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;--test-spec&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;--tspec&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The automated test generator was crashing when parsing module parameters of an input file which did not have any module parameters. This has been fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Generated Verilog benches now contain simpler clock generation code.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Generated runners now contain
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;a &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#A60&quot;&gt;:setup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; task which is invoked before the simulator runs. It can be used to make preprations, such as converting Verilog header files into Ruby, for the simulation.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;better explanations to accomodate new users.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Specifications generated in the &lt;strong&gt;generic&lt;/strong&gt; format no longer contain a class that is instantiated in the generated Ruby bench.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 11.1.1 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a11.1.1</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a11.1.1</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;11.1.1&quot;&gt;Version 11.1.1 (2006-11-15)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes a bug in the automated test generator, unifies the user manual and the website into a single documentation system, and adds support for rSpec 0.7.2.&lt;/p&gt;
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-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;John Burr found the bug in the automated test generator.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
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-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual is now available &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/span&gt; format. If you still wish to have a plain-text version, you can use a text-based browser, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://lynx.browser.org/&quot;&gt;lynx&lt;/a&gt;, to perform the necessary conversion.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The automated test generator no longer crashes when parsing a Verilog module declaration that contains multiple module parameters.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
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-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual and the website are now written using a custom documentation system based on RedCloth and &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ERB&lt;/span&gt; instead of DocBook-XML. This makes it easier to edit the user manual and reuse its content in other areas of the website.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 11.1.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a11.1.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a11.1.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;11.1.0&quot;&gt;Version 11.1.0 (2006-11-08)&lt;/h1&gt;
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-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes a bug in generated benches, improves the &lt;a href=&quot;../ref/ruby/classes/Vpi/Handle.html&quot;&gt;the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; class&lt;/a&gt;, and improves performance by roughly 20%.&lt;/p&gt;
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-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Matt Fischler found the bug in generated benches (see below).&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
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-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;A bug in generated Verilog and Ruby benches, which caused the &lt;pre&gt;ruby: no such file to load -- ruby-vpi (LoadError)&lt;/pre&gt; error, has been fixed. Please regenerate your tests to apply this bug fix to your tests.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The class &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SWIG&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;TYPE_p_unsigned_int&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; has been aliased as &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; for easier access.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
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-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.to_s&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.inspect&lt;/code&gt; now produce more informative output. For example, what used to appear as &lt;pre&gt;#&amp;lt;SWIG::TYPE_p_unsigned_int:0x2aaab6574fa0&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt; now appears as &lt;pre&gt;#&amp;lt;Vpi::Handle vpiModule fullName=counter_rspec_bench, size=-1, file=counter_rspec_bench.v, lineNo=2&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt; in this release.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;You can also provide a list of &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; properties, as names or integer constants, to those methods to see additional information in the output.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; now implements all methods from &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Enumerable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;, such as &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;map&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;each&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;select&lt;/code&gt;, and so on. However, unlike their counterparts in &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Enumerable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;, these methods also accept a list of &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; properties, as names or integer constants. Thus, you are now able to write &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;handle.select(&lt;span style=&quot;color:#A60&quot;&gt;:reg&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style=&quot;color:#A60&quot;&gt;:net&lt;/span&gt;) {|h| h.size &amp;gt; &lt;span style=&quot;color:#00D; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;5&lt;/span&gt;}&lt;/code&gt; to obtain a list of child handles to registers and nets whose capacity is greater than 5 bits.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.[]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.get_value&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.put_value&lt;/code&gt; methods now accept names of &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; properties as well as their integer constants. Thus, you are now able to write &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;handle[&lt;span style=&quot;color:#A60&quot;&gt;:reg&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style=&quot;color:#A60&quot;&gt;:net&lt;/span&gt;]&lt;/code&gt; to obtain a list of handles to all child registers and nets.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
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-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.method_missing&lt;/code&gt; has been refactored to cache queries. There is now, approximately, 20% improvement in performance.&lt;/li&gt;
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-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.method_missing&lt;/code&gt; has been fixed to accept operations with multiple underscores. For example, before this release, you could not write &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;handle.find_all_reg {|r| r.name =~ &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#404&quot;&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#808&quot;&gt;foo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#404&quot;&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;}&lt;/code&gt; because the &amp;#8220;find_all_reg&amp;#8221; method would be interpreted as the operation &amp;#8220;find&amp;#8221; and the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; property &amp;#8220;all_reg&amp;#8221;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.method_missing&lt;/code&gt; no longer requires that the first letter of a method be lower case. For example, now you can now write &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;handle.&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;IntVal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; in addition to &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;handle.intVal&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;IntegerGenerator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; class, in the pipelined &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ALU&lt;/span&gt; example, has been fixed so that multiple instances do not interfere with the generation of each other&amp;#8217;s prime integers.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Due to a bug in the &lt;tt&gt;Rakefile&lt;/tt&gt;, the reference documentation was not included in the previous few releases. This has been fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 11.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a11.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a11.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;11.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 11.0.0 (2006-11-05)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release shortens generated Ruby benches and uses the less confusing notation for defining &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/SingletonTutorial&quot;&gt;singleton methods&lt;/a&gt; in generated designs and prototypes.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The arguments for the &lt;a href=&quot;../ref/ruby/classes/RubyVpi.html&quot;&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RubyVPI&lt;/span&gt;.init_bench&lt;/code&gt; method&lt;/a&gt; have changed.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;generate_test.rb&lt;/strong&gt; no longer emits undocumented status indicators: &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;format&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The source code is no longer distributed as a &lt;strong&gt;zip&lt;/strong&gt; package, because it seems to be quite underutilized in comparison to the &lt;strong&gt;tgz&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;gem&lt;/strong&gt; packages.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Generated Ruby benches have been shortened to just &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; line of code!&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The less confusing notation of &lt;pre class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;def&lt;/span&gt; some_object.a_singleton_method
-  do_stuff
-&lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;end&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; is now used instead of the &lt;pre class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;class&lt;/span&gt; &amp;lt;&amp;lt; &lt;span style=&quot;color:#B06; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;some_object&lt;/span&gt;
-  &lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;def&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;color:#06B; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;a_singleton_method&lt;/span&gt;
-    do_stuff
-  &lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;end&lt;/span&gt;
-&lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;end&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; notation.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The tutorial and examples have been updated accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The pipelined &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ALU&lt;/span&gt; example now has an updated &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;IntegerGenerator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; class.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 10.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a10.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a10.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;10.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 10.0.0 (2006-11-05)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds the ability to access a handle&amp;#8217;s children and reduces the amount of code produced by the automated test generator.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Matt Fischler found the problem of misdirected compilation errors in Verilog benches.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The way in which Ruby-VPI and generated tests interact has changed: the design is now a &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; handle object and the &lt;tt&gt;design.rb&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;proto.rb&lt;/tt&gt; files define &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/SingletonTutorial&quot;&gt;singleton methods&lt;/a&gt; for that object.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;I suggest that you regenerate your existing tests (just run &lt;strong&gt;generate_test.rb&lt;/strong&gt; again) whilst employing the service of a text merging tool (see the user manual).&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;You can now access a handle&amp;#8217;s children by simply calling methods on it. In the event that a child handle has the same name as a &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; property, the child is given priority. However, you can always access &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; properties explicitly via the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;get_value&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;put_value&lt;/code&gt; methods.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;generate_test.rb&lt;/strong&gt; no longer accepts the &lt;pre&gt;-s&lt;/pre&gt; and &lt;pre&gt;-u&lt;/pre&gt; options. Use their longer counterparts &lt;pre&gt;--rspec&lt;/pre&gt; and &lt;pre&gt;--xunit&lt;/pre&gt; instead.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h3&gt;Automated test generator&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Generated Verilog benches no longer divert compilation errors from Verilog design files. That is, if the Verilog simulator finds compilation errors in a Verilog design file, it will report that the Verilog design file is at fault (instead of reporting that the generated Verilog bench is at fault).&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user is now notified when a backup of an existing file is made.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Generated tests have been greatly simplified to reduce the amount of work for the user.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The design is now just a handle to the module in the Verilog bench.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;include &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#33B&quot;&gt;@design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; are no longer generated.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;The tutorial and examples have been updated accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h3&gt;User manual&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Revised the stylesheet to make disjoint sections readily distinguishable from each other, through generous spacing and minor coloring.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added tips about &lt;tt&gt;ruby-vpi/runner_proxy&lt;/tt&gt;, &lt;pre&gt;rake -T&lt;/pre&gt;, and using &lt;strong&gt;kdiff3&lt;/strong&gt; with &lt;strong&gt;generate_test.rb&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Moved installation information into a new &amp;#8220;setup&amp;#8221; chapter.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 9.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a9.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a9.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;9.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 9.0.0 (2006-10-28)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release improves the automated test generator and adds new content to the user manual.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Matt Fischler helped test and debug the installation of Ruby-VPI on Windows.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The command-line options for &lt;strong&gt;generate_test.rb&lt;/strong&gt; have changed. Run the command &lt;pre&gt;generate_test.rb --help&lt;/pre&gt; for details.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Test runners now attempt to resolve paths in &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SIMULATOR_SOURCES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; by searching for them within the directories specified in &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SIMULATOR_INCLUDES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Synopsys &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VCS&lt;/span&gt; is now used in a better way (via the &lt;pre&gt;-load&lt;/pre&gt; option).
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The old &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;PLI&lt;/span&gt; table file (&lt;tt&gt;synopsys_vcs.tab&lt;/tt&gt;) has been removed.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;The C extension has been revised accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The C extension now compiles without errors in Cygwin.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The automated test generator now:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Only creates output files when necessary.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Updates existing output files using &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#setup.recom&quot;&gt;text merging tools&lt;/a&gt; if possible. (Refer to &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;MERGER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; in the help information of &lt;strong&gt;generate_test.rb&lt;/strong&gt;.)&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Emits progress information similar to Ruby on Rails.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual now:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Includes instructions for installing on Windows (via Cygwin).&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Has a recommended software section, with links to text merging tools.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Uses the term &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUnit&quot;&gt;xUnit&lt;/a&gt; instead of &amp;#8220;unit test&amp;#8221;.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Correctly spells &amp;#8220;rSpec&amp;#8221;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 8.2.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a8.2.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a8.2.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;8.2.0&quot;&gt;Version 8.2.0 (2006-10-24)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release simplifies configuration of generated tests.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/cmpe126/Fall06/&quot;&gt;Students in the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMPE&lt;/span&gt;-126 class&lt;/a&gt; for their comments and criticisms.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Generated runners now have a &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SIMULATOR_INCLUDES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; array, whose entries specify places where Verilog source files, needed by the Verilog design, reside.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Generated Verilog benches now inherit all &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#f0fff0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#161&quot;&gt;`&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#2B2&quot;&gt;include&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#f0fff0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#161&quot;&gt;`&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#2B2&quot;&gt;define&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; directives from the Verilog design in a simpler manner.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;A generated test no longer requires its Verilog design to reside in the same directory.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;The sample tests have been updated accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 8.1.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a8.1.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a8.1.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;8.1.0&quot;&gt;Version 8.1.0 (2006-10-21)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds an integer library and renames the vpi_util library.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;vpi_util&lt;/strong&gt; library has been renamed to &lt;strong&gt;vpi&lt;/strong&gt;. This change should not affect your code unless you explicitly imported this library via &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;require &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;ruby-vpi/vpi_util&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;. In which case, you should update your code to use &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;require &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;ruby-vpi/vpi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;An integer library has been added to simplify common tasks related to hardware and the binary number system. You can import this library for use via &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;require &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;ruby-vpi/integer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 8.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a8.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a8.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;8.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 8.0.0 (2006-10-13)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release renames some identifiers for consistency, updates the documentation, and improves integration with RubyGems.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RubyVPI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; module has been renamed to &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RubyVpi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;PROTO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; environment variable has been renamed to &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;PROTOTYPE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;In addition to using &lt;strong&gt;unset&lt;/strong&gt;, you can now disable simulation of the prototype by assigning an empty value to this variable.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
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-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;We now use &lt;a href=&quot;http://darcs.net&quot;&gt;Darcs&lt;/a&gt; for revision control, instead of Subversion. The source repository can now be accessed at &lt;a href=&quot;http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/src/ruby-vpi&quot;&gt;http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/src/ruby-vpi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The source code is now distributed in tar.gz and zip form, in addition to gem.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Some identifiers have been renamed for better consistency.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual now resides directly within the &lt;tt&gt;doc/&lt;/tt&gt; directory.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The integration of documentation in &lt;strong&gt;gem_server&lt;/strong&gt; has been improved.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
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-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The glossary and tutorial in the user manual have been revised.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 7.3.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a7.3.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a7.3.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;7.3.0&quot;&gt;Version 7.3.0 (2006-09-30)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes a bug in generated Verilog benches, includes parsed constants in generated tests, and adds new methods to handles.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Handles now have two new methods:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;handle.x?&lt;/code&gt; checks if the logic value is &amp;#8220;don&amp;#8217;t care&amp;#8221; &lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;handle.z?&lt;/code&gt; checks if the logic value is high impedance&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Module instantiation code in generated Verilog benches has been fixed. Whitespace between the module type and instance variable was missing.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The test generator tool now provides parsed Verilog constants and include-directives in generated Verilog benches; and parsed Verilog constants in generated Ruby designs.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The pipelined &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ALU&lt;/span&gt; example has been revised accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;A library for parsing Verilog source code has been added as &lt;tt&gt;lib/ruby-vpi/verilog_parser.rb&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 7.2.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a7.2.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a7.2.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;7.2.0&quot;&gt;Version 7.2.0 (2006-09-15)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds initial support for code coverage analysis via the &lt;a href=&quot;http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?rcov&quot;&gt;rcov library&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Mauricio Fernandez helped me use rcov without its runner.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added initial support (full capabilites of the rcov library, such as its various analysis modes, are not yet utilized) for code coverage analysis, which can be enabled by setting the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;COVERAGE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; environment variable to a non-empty value before running a test.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;For example, you can run a test with the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/span&gt; Cver simulator while enabling the generation of code coverage reports as follows: &lt;pre&gt;export COVERAGE=1; rake cver&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Coverage reports are generated in text and &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/span&gt; formats.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 7.1.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a7.1.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a7.1.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;7.1.0&quot;&gt;Version 7.1.0 (2006-08-29)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release simplifies running of multiple tests, restores compatibility with Synopsys &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VCS&lt;/span&gt;, and better integrates with RubyGems.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added &lt;tt&gt;lib/ruby-vpi/runner_proxy.rb&lt;/tt&gt; library which, when embedded into a Rakefile, runs all generated tests in the working directory with any specified arguments. For example, have a look at the &lt;tt&gt;samp/counter/Rakefile&lt;/tt&gt; file.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Fixed a bug that prevented one from running tests with Synopsys &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VCS&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby-VPI documentation is now available through RubyGems&amp;#8217; &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/2#page10&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;gem_server&lt;/strong&gt; web interface&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual now discusses how to determine the location of a Ruby-VPI installation.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;tt&gt;tpl/&lt;/tt&gt; directory has been removed.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 7.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a7.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a7.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;7.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 7.0.0 (2006-08-29)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release distributes Ruby-VPI as a gem, improves portability of generated tests, and fixes a bug.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;put_value()&lt;/code&gt; now accomodates register value overflows when verifying the value it has written.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The test generator&amp;#8217;s templates and the examples have been updated as follows:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Test runners no longer have to specify the path to Ruby-VPI installation directory. Instead, they simply &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;require &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;ruby-vpi/runner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;. Thus, you can run your tests on any machine with Ruby-VPI without having to know where it is installed.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Ruby benches now invoke &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RubyVPI&lt;/span&gt;.init_bench&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;require &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;bench&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;; setup_bench&lt;/code&gt; to become initialized.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;All Ruby libraries in the &lt;tt&gt;lib/&lt;/tt&gt; directory have been moved into &lt;tt&gt;lib/ruby-vpi/&lt;/tt&gt; to prevent load-path clashes with other gems. You should access these libraries by prefixing their path with &amp;#8220;ruby-vpi&amp;#8221;. For example, &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;require &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;vpi_util&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; should now be written as &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;require &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;ruby-vpi/vpi_util&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;tt&gt;src/&lt;/tt&gt; directory has been renamed to &lt;tt&gt;ext/&lt;/tt&gt; to follow RubyGems convention.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby-VPI is now distributed only as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rubygems.org&quot;&gt;source gem&lt;/a&gt;. You can decompress the gem without installing it onto your system by running the command &lt;pre&gt;gem install -i output_directory ruby-vpi-7.0.0.gem&lt;/pre&gt;. In addition, you can still obtain the source code directly from the Subversion repository.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The tools in &lt;tt&gt;bin/&lt;/tt&gt; become available in your system&amp;#8217;s &lt;tt&gt;bin/&lt;/tt&gt; directory when the gem is installed.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Usage and help information has been added to the &lt;strong&gt;header_to_ruby.rb&lt;/strong&gt; tool.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Incorrect spelling of &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/span&gt; Cver (v should be uncapitalized) has been fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Incorrect link to &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/span&gt; Cver website has been fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual has been updated according to all of the above changes.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 6.3.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a6.3.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a6.3.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;6.3.0&quot;&gt;Version 6.3.0 (2006-08-27)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds support for the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/span&gt; Cver simulator, provides both binary and source packages, and explicitly defines the version numbering system.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby-VPI now only needs to be built once.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;You can run tests with different Verilog simulators without having to re-compile Ruby-VPI.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/span&gt; Cver simulator is now supported.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Release packages are now available in both source and binary form.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The RSpec based specifications for the counter example now use the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;should_equal&lt;/code&gt; instead of the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;should_be&lt;/code&gt; assertion, because the latter ensures strict equivalence. For instance, it will fail when a Fixnum is compared to a Bignum.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;We now follow the RubyGems project&amp;#8217;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/7&quot;&gt;rational versioning policy&lt;/a&gt;. The version numbers of previous releases have been revised accordingly:
-	&lt;table&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;th&gt;Release date &lt;/th&gt;
-			&lt;th&gt;Original version number &lt;/th&gt;
-			&lt;th&gt;New version number &lt;/th&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 1999-10-31 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.0   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.0.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-02-26 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.1   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 1.0.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-04-17 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.2   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2.0.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-04-23 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.3   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 3.0.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-04-28 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.4   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 3.1.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-05-13 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.5   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 3.2.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-05-25 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.6   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 4.0.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-07-22 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.7   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 5.0.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-07-29 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.8   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 5.1.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-08-04 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.8.1 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 5.1.1 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-08-07 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.9   &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 6.0.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-08-09 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.9.1 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 6.1.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-		&lt;tr&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 2006-08-26 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 0.9.2 &lt;/td&gt;
-			&lt;td&gt; 6.2.0 &lt;/td&gt;
-		&lt;/tr&gt;
-	&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 6.2.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a6.2.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a6.2.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;6.2.0&quot;&gt;Version 6.2.0 (2006-08-26)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release beautifies generated tests, adds checks to find signal width bugs, and includes a new tool.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;put_value()&lt;/code&gt; now returns the value it puts. Therefore, it is easier to chain together a series of assignments: &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;foo.intVal = bar.intVal = baz.intVal = &lt;span style=&quot;color:#00D; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;put_value()&lt;/code&gt; now verifies that the value it puts was written correctly. This helps to find bugs regarding invalid assumptions about the number of bits supported by a signal.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The test generator now uses &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ERB&lt;/span&gt; templates which ensures nice indentation of generated output.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The test generator now decouples Ruby-VPI paths from Verilog benches via the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;RUBYLIB&lt;/span&gt; environment variable.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;A tool which converts Verilog headers into Ruby has been added.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The source code is now indented with two spaces instead of one tab character.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 6.1.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a6.1.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a6.1.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;6.1.0&quot;&gt;Version 6.1.0 (2006-08-09)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release simplifies generated tests and fixes a bug.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The test generator now produces simpler Ruby benches and specifications.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;A template used by generated specifications has been added.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;The counter example and tutorial have also been simplified accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Boolean &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; property values are now correctly converted into Ruby truth values.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 6.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a6.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a6.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;6.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 6.0.0 (2006-08-07)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds support and documentation for rapid prototyping of Verilog designs in Ruby.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The directory structure has been reorganized as follows:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;ext&lt;/tt&gt; &amp;rarr; &lt;tt&gt;src&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;tools&lt;/tt&gt; &amp;rarr; &lt;tt&gt;bin&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;examples&lt;/tt&gt; &amp;rarr; &lt;tt&gt;samp&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
+    <title>Version 17.0.0 released</title>
+    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a17.0.0</link>
+    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a17.0.0</guid>
+    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;17.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 17.0.0 (2007-07-22)&lt;/h1&gt;
 
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;All template files have been moved into the &lt;tt&gt;tpl&lt;/tt&gt; directory.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Support for prototyping designs in Ruby, before they are implemented in Verilog, has been added.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; specification can be used to verify both prototype &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; design! :-)&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;The tutorial in the user manual has been updated to discuss prototyping.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Prototypes have been added to the counter example.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual has been revised for consistency.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 5.1.1 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a5.1.1</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a5.1.1</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;5.1.1&quot;&gt;Version 5.1.1 (2006-08-04)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes unreadable syntax coloring in the user manual.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Todd Nagengast and Matt Fischler notified me about unreadable text in the user manual.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Source code comments in the user manual are now readable.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;tt&gt;README&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;HISTORY&lt;/tt&gt; files have been converted to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/&quot;&gt;textile&lt;/a&gt; format.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 5.1.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a5.1.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a5.1.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;5.1.0&quot;&gt;Version 5.1.0 (2006-07-29)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds a tutorial to the user manual, and improves the tools and examples.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Phil Tomson corrected the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;URL&lt;/span&gt; of the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;RHDL&lt;/span&gt; website in the user manual.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h3&gt;User manual&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;A tutorial, based on the counter example, has been added to the user manual.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual&amp;#8217;s appearance has been dramatically improved with syntax coloring for source code, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tango.freedesktop.org&quot;&gt;graphics for admonitions and navigation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h3&gt;Examples&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;A specification, expressed in unit test format, has been added to the counter example.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;pre&gt;--name&lt;/pre&gt; and &lt;pre&gt;-n&lt;/pre&gt; options, which lets you specify an identifier for a generated test, have been added to the &lt;strong&gt;generate_test.rb&lt;/strong&gt; tool.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Running &lt;pre&gt;rake clobber&lt;/pre&gt; in an example directory no longer destroys documentation in the Ruby-VPI directory.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The examples&amp;#8217; Rakefiles now invoke all tests present in the directory via the &lt;tt&gt;launcher_template.rake&lt;/tt&gt; template.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The Rake template for test runners (generated by &lt;tt&gt;tools/generate_test.rb&lt;/tt&gt;) has moved from &lt;tt&gt;examples/template.rake&lt;/tt&gt; to &lt;tt&gt;examples/runner_template.rake&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; utility layer&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The value of a handle&amp;#8217;s boolean &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; property is treated as &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#038; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;false&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; if it is zero, because zero is &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#038; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;false&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; in the C language.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 5.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a5.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a5.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;5.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 5.0.0 (2006-07-22)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release enhances the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; utility layer and adds new content to the user manual.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Jan Decaluwe corrected the description of MyHDL in the user manual.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
+	&lt;p&gt;This release makes the Ruby-VPI testing framework more lightweight by reducing the number of files and parameters involved.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SWIG&lt;/span&gt; is no longer required for users because its output is included in the release package.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;handle.value&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;handle.value=&lt;/code&gt; methods have been removed.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;generate_test.rb&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;convert.rb&lt;/strong&gt; executables have been replaced by a single &lt;strong&gt;ruby-vpi&lt;/strong&gt; executable to avoid name conflicts with other software. They are now accessed using the &lt;pre&gt;ruby-vpi generate&lt;/pre&gt; and &lt;pre&gt;ruby-vpi convert&lt;/pre&gt; commands respectively.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; utility layer provides access to &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; properties of handles in a &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#background.org.vpi&quot;&gt;simpler, more powerful way&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;tt&gt;--name&lt;/tt&gt; parameter has been removed from the automated test generator. Similarly, you can no longer insert an arbitrary name in a test&amp;#8217;s file names (see the &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#Do_not_rename_generated_files&quot;&gt;user manual&lt;/a&gt; for details).&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;All &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; properties, except delay values, are now accessible from a handle.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;DEBUG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; environment variable, which controls wether the test runner starts the interactive debugger, has been renamed to &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;DEBUGGER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The user manual has been revised and new content in the organization and usage sections has been added.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SIMULATOR_TARGET&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SIMULATOR_INCLUDES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; parameters have been eliminated from test runners. The former is detected automatically. As for the latter, you can specify paths to directories in the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SIMULATOR_SOURCES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; parameter instead.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;This release was tested and developed using:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Mentor Modelsim 6.1d on x86_64 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 4.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a4.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a4.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;4.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 4.0.0 (2006-05-25)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds a comprehensive user manual, upgrades from make to &lt;a href=&quot;http://rake.rubyforge.org&quot;&gt;Rake&lt;/a&gt;, and improves the test generation tool.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Jose Renau solved the problem of strange delays that occurred whenever a design was reset.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;tt&gt;bench.rb&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;bench.v&lt;/tt&gt; files of a generated test are (1) no longer generated by the test generator and (2) are now ignored. You must move the functionality provided by these files into &lt;tt&gt;design.rb&lt;/tt&gt; and your Verilog module&amp;#8217;s source file respectively.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Rake has replaced the role of &lt;strong&gt;make&lt;/strong&gt;. All makefiles have been converted accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;tt&gt;design.rb&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;proto.rb&lt;/tt&gt; files are now loaded into a separate namespace (Ruby module). For example, if the Verilog module under test has the name &amp;#8220;counter&amp;#8221; and the &lt;tt&gt;design.rb&lt;/tt&gt; file defines a class named &amp;#8220;Foo&amp;#8221;, then that class will be accessible as &amp;#8220;Counter::Foo&amp;#8221;.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The test generation tool now generates multiple files (runner, bench, design, spec) and makes backups of existing files. See its help information for details.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The global &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::simulate&lt;/code&gt; method has been replaced by the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;cycle!&lt;/code&gt; method in the &lt;tt&gt;design.rb&lt;/tt&gt; file.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;A comprehensive user manual, written in DocBook-XML, has been added.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;simulate!&lt;/code&gt; method in the &lt;tt&gt;proto.rb&lt;/tt&gt; file has been renamed to &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;feign!&lt;/code&gt; for accuracy.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Support for RSpec 0.5.4 has been added.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The counter example now makes use of RSpec.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RubyVpi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; module has been renamed to &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;RubyVPI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;This release was tested and developed using:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Mentor Modelsim 6.1d on x86_64 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 3.2.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a3.2.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a3.2.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;3.2.0&quot;&gt;Version 3.2.0 (2006-05-13)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds a tool which generates test benches, and adds support for &lt;a href=&quot;http://behaviour-driven.org&quot;&gt;Behavior Driven Development&lt;/a&gt; via the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rspec.rubyforge.org&quot;&gt;RSpec&lt;/a&gt; library.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Scott L Holmes helped me &lt;a href=&quot;http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general/150087&quot;&gt;use the RSpec library without its runner&lt;/a&gt; program.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;RSpec &amp;gt;= 1.0.0 is now required by Ruby-VPI.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;A tool, which generates most of a Ruby-VPI test bench from a Verilog 2001 module declaration, has been added.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;readme.html#intro.license&quot;&gt;project license&lt;/a&gt; has been further simplified.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ability to use RSpec in a test bench has been added.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
+	&lt;h2&gt;Repairs&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ability to specify arbitrary command-line arguments to Verilog simulators has been added in the examples&amp;#8217; makefile template.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Restored support for Enumerable methods in &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;This release was tested and developed using:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Mentor Modelsim 6.1d on x86_64 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 3.1.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a3.1.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a3.1.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;3.1.0&quot;&gt;Version 3.1.0 (2006-04-28)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds simple ways of reading and writing values to &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; handles, adds documentation for the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; utility layer, and fixes the pipelined &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ALU&lt;/span&gt; example.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;msim&lt;/strong&gt; Makefile target for Mentor Modelsim has been renamed back to &lt;strong&gt;vsim&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The specification now begins to execute at simulation time 0. Previously it began at simulation time 1.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Simple, consistent ways of reading and writing values to handles have been added to the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; utility layer. These ways are described in the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SWIG&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;TYPE_p_unsigned_int&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; class&amp;#8217; documentation.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
+	&lt;h2&gt;Improvements&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The makefiles now use the &lt;strong&gt;rbconfig&lt;/strong&gt; library to determine the default compiler and linker flags for Ruby.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;tt&gt;bench.rb&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;bench.v&lt;/tt&gt; files of a generated test have been eliminated!
 
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;A race condition in the pipelined &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ALU&lt;/span&gt; example has been fixed. This example should now run successfully in all Verilog simulators.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
+	&lt;p&gt;One important benefit is that the Ruby interface to the Verilog module under test is now a direct reference, whereas previously it was an &lt;em&gt;indirect&lt;/em&gt; reference (it pointed to the Verilog module defined in &lt;tt&gt;bench.v&lt;/tt&gt;, which in turn wrapped around the actual Verilog module under test).&lt;/p&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The project wiki has been abandoned in favor of RDoc.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;p&gt;As a result, you can now access the internals of the Verilog module under test by simply calling methods on the Ruby interface, as you would naturally expect to be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The project website is now generated by RDoc.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &amp;#8220;a&amp;#8221; accessor, which returns an &lt;em&gt;array&lt;/em&gt; of child handles, has been added to &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#tbl:accessors&quot;&gt;the method naming format&lt;/a&gt; for accessing child handles.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;This release was tested and developed using:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Mentor Modelsim 6.1d on x86_64 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 3.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a3.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a3.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;3.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 3.0.0 (2006-04-23)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This release adds support for the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/standardstoc.jsp?isnumber=33945&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;IEEE&lt;/span&gt; Std. 1364-2005&lt;/a&gt; VPI interface, and updates the examples into unit tests.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.swig.org/guilty.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SWIG&lt;/span&gt; developers&lt;/a&gt; made this project &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; easier! ;-)&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;All parameter objects in the Verilog module under test are automatically made available as constants. For example, if the Verilog module under test has the name &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;counter&lt;/code&gt; and has a parameter object named &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;WIDTH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;, then you can access the integer value of that parameter using &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Counter&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;WIDTH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;vsim&lt;/strong&gt; Makefile target for Mentor Modelsim has been renamed to &lt;strong&gt;msim&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The automated test generator now tries to automatically detect the clock and reset signal from Verilog module declarations.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The Ruby interface to &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; is now generated by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.swig.org&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SWIG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The main &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; module has been renamed to &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; class has been removed.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::stop&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::finish&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::reset&lt;/code&gt; methods have been removed.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The automated test generator now supports Verilog 95 style module declarations.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boydtechinc.com/ptf/archive/ptf_2005/0737.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;final ballot&lt;/em&gt; version&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;tt&gt;vpi_user.h&lt;/tt&gt; header file is now packaged along with and used by Ruby-VPI.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Exceptions are now raised when you try to write to a read-only VPI property, such as &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VpiName&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; module, its sub-classes, and its functionality have been replaced by the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; utility layer (see &lt;tt&gt;src/vpi_util.rb&lt;/tt&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Added &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;high?&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;high!&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;low?&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;low!&lt;/code&gt; methods to the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; class.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The examples now make use of the &lt;strong&gt;test/unit&lt;/strong&gt; unit testing framework.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Revised the user manual by removing unnecessary sections and adding newer material from my master&amp;#8217;s thesis.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The makefiles for the examples have been simplified through the use of a common template.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
+	&lt;h2&gt;Contributions&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;This release was tested and developed using:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Mentor Modelsim 6.1d on x86_64 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Added Jacinto Shy II&amp;#8217;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://jacintoshy.blogspot.com/2007/05/hacking-verilog-with-ruby-part-2.html&quot;&gt;register file example&lt;/a&gt; to Ruby-VPI. It can be found in &lt;tt&gt;samp/register_file/&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
+    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
   </item>
   <item>
-    <title>Version 2.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a2.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a2.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;2.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 2.0.0 (2006-04-17)&lt;/h1&gt;
+    <title>Version 16.0.1 released</title>
+    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a16.0.1</link>
+    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a16.0.1</guid>
+    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;16.0.1&quot;&gt;Version 16.0.1 (2007-05-27)&lt;/h1&gt;
 
-	&lt;p&gt;This release fixes major bugs, adds support for Mentor Modelsim, and removes the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_task&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; callback.&lt;/p&gt;
+	&lt;p&gt;This release restores support for installation on Mac &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;OS X&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Nobu Nakada explained the &lt;a href=&quot;http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general/146653&quot;&gt;cross-thread violation on rb_gc()&lt;/a&gt; error.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Removed &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_task&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; callback and ability to dynamically register system tasks from Ruby because inter-process communication is complicated at present.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &amp;#8220;cross-thread violation on rb_gc()&amp;#8221; error has been fixed.
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;The &amp;#8220;stack level too deep (SystemStackError)&amp;#8221; error has been fixed.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;The test/unit library can be used in Ruby test bench.&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Mentor Modelsim Verilog simulator works with Ruby-VPI.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Mark Thompson &lt;a href=&quot;http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;#38;aid=11125&amp;#38;group_id=1339&amp;#38;atid=5281&quot;&gt;reported and solved&lt;/a&gt; the problem.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added piplelined &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;ALU&lt;/span&gt; example.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
+	&lt;h2&gt;Repairs&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;This release was tested and developed using:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Modelsim 6.1d on x86_64 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4 and Synopsys &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VCS&lt;/span&gt;-MX X-2005.06-SP1 on &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SPARC4&lt;/span&gt; SunOS 5.10&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Shared-object files have a file extension of &lt;tt&gt;.so&lt;/tt&gt; in Linux and &lt;tt&gt;.bundle&lt;/tt&gt; on Mac &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;OS X&lt;/span&gt;.  Previously, only the Linux file extension was supported.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
+    <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
   </item>
   <item>
-    <title>Version 1.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a1.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a1.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;1.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 1.0.0 (2006-02-26)&lt;/h1&gt;
+    <title>Version 16.0.0 released</title>
+    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a16.0.0</link>
+    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a16.0.0</guid>
+    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;16.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 16.0.0 (2007-05-02)&lt;/h1&gt;
 
-This release adds enough Verilog &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; functionality to make Ruby-VPI usable for simple test benches:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;access Verilog objects through &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; handles&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;read and change &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; handle values&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;stop, finish, restart the simulation&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
+	&lt;p&gt;This release adds support for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cadence.com/products/functional_ver/nc-verilog/&quot;&gt;Cadence NC-Sim / NC-Verilog&lt;/a&gt; simulator, improves the project website and documentation, simplifies interaction with VPI, and comes with a more permissive license.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;
+	&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Jose Renau helped me debug how Synopsys &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VCS&lt;/span&gt; works with Verilog &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;. The problem was that &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VCS&lt;/span&gt; required calltf signatures to be &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;void (*)(void)&lt;/code&gt;, whereas the Verilog standard defines a calltf signature as &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;PLI_INT32&lt;/span&gt; (*)(&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;PLI_BYTE8&lt;/span&gt;*)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
-
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;.ensure_min&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Integer&lt;/span&gt;.ensure_max&lt;/code&gt; methods have been removed from the &lt;tt&gt;ruby-vpi/integer.rb&lt;/tt&gt; library because Ruby already has idioms for these operations: &lt;pre&gt;
+&amp;gt;&amp;gt; 5.ensure_min 10
+=&amp;gt; 10
+&amp;gt;&amp;gt; [5, 10].max
+=&amp;gt; 10
 
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ross Bamford, Eric Hodel, and Yukihiro Matsumoto &lt;a href=&quot;http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/180662&quot;&gt;helped me discover&lt;/a&gt; why the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;SystemStackError&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; was happening.&lt;/li&gt;
+&amp;gt;&amp;gt; 5.ensure_max 10
+=&amp;gt; 5
+&amp;gt;&amp;gt; [5, 10].min
+=&amp;gt; 5
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
-
-
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Implemented some Verilog &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt; functionality:
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::handle_by_name(string, &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/code&gt; &amp;rarr; &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::handle_by_name(string)&lt;/code&gt; &amp;rarr; &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.put_value(integer)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.value = integer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.get_value&lt;/code&gt; &amp;rarr; &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;integer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.value&lt;/code&gt; &amp;rarr; &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;integer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::stop&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::finish&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::reset&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Ruby-VPI is now developed under a &lt;a href=&quot;readme.html#intro.license&quot;&gt;more permissive license&lt;/a&gt; that better reflects my ethical beliefs than &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html&quot;&gt;the previous license&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Implemented some additional functionality:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::register_task(string, &amp;amp;proc)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;
+	&lt;h2&gt;New features&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added ability to pass arbitrary command-line arguments to the Ruby interpreter (using &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_init&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;). Now you can invoke any Ruby script you want, instead of &lt;tt&gt;pli_init.rb&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cadence.com/products/functional_ver/nc-verilog/&quot;&gt;Cadence NC-Sim / NC-Verilog&lt;/a&gt; (ncsim) simulator is now supported.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added ability to dynamically register system tasks from Ruby, using &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::register_task(&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;task name&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/code&gt;, and call them from Verilog, using &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_task&lt;/span&gt;(&lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;task name&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;VPI structures (whose names begin with &amp;#8220;S_&amp;#8221;) now allow initialization of their members through their constructor, in the style of Ruby on Rails. For example, the expression &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;time = &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;S_vpi_time&lt;/span&gt;.new &lt;span style=&quot;color:#A60&quot;&gt;:type&lt;/span&gt; =&amp;gt; &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VpiSuppressTime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; is equivalent to: &lt;pre class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;
+time      = &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;S_vpi_time&lt;/span&gt;.new
+time.type = &lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VpiSuppressTime&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;VPI&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; class which encapsulates a &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;vpiHandle&lt;/code&gt; VPI object.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Added the &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Vpi&lt;/span&gt;::&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Handle&lt;/span&gt;.cbValueChange&lt;/code&gt; method which simplifies the registration of a value-change callback for a particular VPI handle. For instance, the user manual&amp;#8217;s &lt;a href=&quot;manual.html#ex..callback&quot;&gt;example of setting up a value-change callback&lt;/a&gt; can now be written as follows: &lt;pre class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;
+&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;Counter&lt;/span&gt;.count.cbValueChange &lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; |s_cb_data|
+  puts &lt;span style=&quot;background-color:#fff0f0&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt;hello from callback! time=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: #eee&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: #888&quot;&gt;#{&lt;/span&gt;s_cb_data.time.to_i&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: #888&quot;&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#D20&quot;&gt; count=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: #eee&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: #888&quot;&gt;#{&lt;/span&gt;s_cb_data.obj.intVal&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: #888&quot;&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#710&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;span style=&quot;color:#080; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;end&lt;/span&gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;This release was tested and developed using:
-	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.2 and Icarus Verilog 0.8 on i686 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-		&lt;li&gt;Ruby 1.8.4, Synopsys &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VCS X&lt;/span&gt;-2005.06, and Mentor Modelsim 6.1b on i686 &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GNU&lt;/span&gt;/Linux&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
-  </item>
-  <item>
-    <title>Version 0.0.0 released</title>
-    <link>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a0.0.0</link>
-    <guid>http://ruby-vpi.rubyforge.org/doc/history.html#a0.0.0</guid>
-    <description>&lt;h1 id=&quot;0.0.0&quot;&gt;Version 0.0.0 (1999-10-31)&lt;/h1&gt;
-
-	&lt;p&gt;This is Kazuhiro &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;HIWADA&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#8217;s initial testing release of Ruby-VPI. See its &lt;a href=&quot;http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/18193&quot;&gt;original announcement&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1339&amp;#38;release_id=8852&quot;&gt;source code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
 	&lt;h2&gt;Details&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Added ability to relay control from Verilog test bench to Ruby (using &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#d70; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;$ruby_callback&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;) and vice versa (using &lt;code class=&quot;code&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#036; font-weight:bold&quot;&gt;PLI&lt;/span&gt;::relay_Verilog&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Revised the project website according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://producingoss.com&quot;&gt;Producing OSS&lt;/a&gt; guidelines.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 	&lt;ul&gt;
-	&lt;li&gt;Tested and developed using Ruby 1.4 and Verilog-XL from Cadence systems, on a &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SPARC&lt;/span&gt; machine running Solaris 2.6.&lt;/li&gt;
+	&lt;li&gt;Added instructions for checking out source code and generating documentation.&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
-    <pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 1999 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
+    <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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