Logic design 1 (Verilog) -- Synchronized reset flipflop

Introduction

In this tutorial, we will discover how to install Python interpreter on CentOS7 and use Python to manage VCS shell commands. Arguably Perl might be the best language to perform this task since its a language optimized for extracting information from input and report text files. We’ll use Python 3 here just because that Python is more popular than Perl in any other industries.
The demo example we will use in this tutorial is a simple buffer with synchronized reset and negative level reset. Otherwise, the flip-flop will just passing the input to the output at every rising edge of the clock. We will write the buffer and a testbench in Verilog language and simulate it on Synopsys VCS.

Code

1. Make a folder: mkdir /home/workstation/playground/prj1
2. Write a flipflop in flipflop.v;
3. Write a testbench and instantiate the flipflop in top.v
4. List both flipflop.v and top.v in a text file filelist.f
5. Create a Python script to parse the text file and configure the input commands to call VCS simulator.

• Do the following steps to install Python 3.6 on centos7.
• Make sure your system’s repository is up to date.

		# yum -y update

• Install utilities and plugins that supports yum.

		# yum -y install yum-utils

• Install centos development tools for compiling source code.

		# yum -y groupinstall development
		# yum -y install https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
		# yum -y install python36u

• If the version is outdated, install the recommended one by the system.
• Install pip to manage and install Python packages.

		# yum -y install python36u-pip

• Try if you can install a Python package using pip, e.g. numpy.

		# pip3.6 install numpy

• Install Python 3 libraries and header files.

		# yum -y install python36u-devel
	 	# python --version

• Try # python to invoke Python 2.7 and # python3.6 to invoke Python 3

		# python
		# exit()
		# python3.6

flipflop.v

  1 module flipflop(
  2         clock,
  3         reset,
  4