MyHDL is a free, open-source package for using Python as a hardware description and verification language.

To find out whether MyHDL can be useful to you, please read:

• http://www.myhdl.org/start/why.html

MyHDL is available under the LGPL license. See LICENSE.txt.

The project website is located at http://www.myhdl.org

The manual is available on-line:

• http://docs.myhdl.org/en/stable/manual

To find out what's new in this release, please read:

• http://docs.myhdl.org/en/stable/whatsnew/0.9.html

If you have superuser power, you can install MyHDL as follows:

python setup.py install

This will install the package in the appropriate site-wide Python package location.

Otherwise, you can install it in a personal directory, e.g. as follows:

python setup.py install --home=$HOME

In this case, be sure to add the appropriate install dir to the $PYTHONPATH.

If necessary, consult the distutils documentation in the standard Python library if necessary for more details; or contact me.

You can test the proper installation as follows:

cd myhdl/test/core
py.test

To install co-simulation support:

Go to the directory cosimulation/<platform> for your target platform and following the instructions in the README.txt file.