Sigasi Visual HDL 2025.1 in Eclipse

Please note that we will start ramping down support for Eclipse during 2025 to focus exclusively on VS Code for your benefit. Please enjoy and do get in touch with either our Sales Team or Support Team if you need any help transitioning to VS Code.

Signing

Starting with this release, we no longer sign our jars directly. Instead, we provide a GPG signature as part of the update site. This more modern approach does not require editing jars and is a much wider accepted security practice.

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VHDL Superfluous Reset Linting Rule

Complementing the Incomplete reset branch linting rule, SVH 2025.1 introduces a rule that marks superfluous resets. For example, combinational logic preceding clocked processes does not require a reset.

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New and Noteworthy

Improved wording in the Documentation View
Verilog Disabled navigation for double-clicks on the collapse & expand icon in the UVM Diagram
Verilog Removed the collapse & expand icon in the UVM Diagram if there are no children
Verilog Improved linking for implicit declarations in covergroups
VHDL Removed the Add signal Quick Fix in packages as signals are rarely wanted in this context
VHDL Added autocomplete templates for record and enum when typing those keywords as prefixes
VHDL Improved finite state machine computation

Bug Fixes

Fixed typos regarding state machines
Fixed missing valid keyword autocompletion suggestions
Fixed cursor for libraries in the Dependencies View
VHDL Fixed false positive Unexpected keyword capitalization error on attributes
VHDL Fixed false positive No matching subprogram error with 'subtype and 'base attributes
VHDL Fixed false positive Positional association in Instantiations error for subprograms with a single argument
VHDL Fixed false positive Invalid function parameter mode and Invalid variable parameter in function errors in VHDL 2019 when using inout variables
VHDL Fixed rare missing A positional assocation cannot follow after a named association error
VHDL Allowed keywords as VHDL 2019 conditional processing identifiers

Update or Install

You can download the latest stand-alone version below:

You can also update automatically when setting Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites > Add… : https://download.sigasi.com/sigasi-studio/updates/composite/

SHA sums (more info ) can be checked via https://download.sigasi.com/eclipse/updates/latest/eclipse-sha1.txt .

System Requirements

Sigasi Visual HDL in Eclipse requires:

Windows 10 or Windows 11 64-bit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 8 or 9 64-bit
- Sigasi Visual HDL depends on libXss.so, which is obtainable by installing libXScrnSaver
- Sigasi Visual HDL depends on webkit2gtk4.0, which is installable through your package manager of choice
- You can find more information on supported Linux Operating Systems on the Eclipse website

Sigasi Visual HDL as a plugin in your existing Eclipse installation requires:

Eclipse IDE 2023-03 up to and including Eclipse IDE 2024-12
Java JRE 17 or 21

We recommend having at least 8 GB of memory and about 1 GB of free disk space available for Sigasi Visual HDL.

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