How To Install verilator on CentOS 8
verilator is A fast simulator for synthesizable Verilog
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install verilator on CentOS 8.
What is verilator
Verilator is the fastest free Verilog HDL simulator. It compiles synthesizable Verilog, plus some PSL, SystemVerilog and Synthesis assertions into C++ or SystemC code. It is designed for large projects where fast simulation performance is of primary concern, and is especially well suited to create executable models of CPUs for embedded software design teams.
We can use yum or dnf to install verilator on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install verilator.
Install verilator on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install verilator using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install verilator
Install verilator on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install verilator using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install verilator
How To Uninstall verilator on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the verilator package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove verilator
verilator Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/verilator
/usr/bin/verilator_bin
/usr/bin/verilator_bin_dbg
/usr/bin/verilator_coverage
/usr/bin/verilator_coverage_bin_dbg
/usr/bin/verilator_gantt
/usr/bin/verilator_profcfunc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/89908377823d5d6170f973341cb7f3d9696502
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/3c0112a5d4fa0960e451fd9123ac97de97a803
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/4c8c5259cbc45041e259f0df541926c243a1ae
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/verilator.pc
/usr/share/doc/verilator
/usr/share/doc/verilator/Changes
/usr/share/doc/verilator/README.adoc
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_hello_c
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_hello_c/CMakeLists.txt
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_hello_c/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_hello_sc
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_hello_sc/CMakeLists.txt
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_hello_sc/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_protect_lib
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_protect_lib/CMakeLists.txt
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_protect_lib/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_tracing_c
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_tracing_c/CMakeLists.txt
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_tracing_c/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_tracing_sc
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_tracing_sc/CMakeLists.txt
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/cmake_tracing_sc/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_hello_c
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_hello_c/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_hello_c/sim_main.cpp
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_hello_c/top.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_hello_sc
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_hello_sc/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_hello_sc/sc_main.cpp
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_hello_sc/top.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_protect_lib
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_protect_lib/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_protect_lib/secret_impl.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_protect_lib/sim_main.cpp
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_protect_lib/top.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_c
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_c/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_c/Makefile_obj
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_c/input.vc
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_c/sim_main.cpp
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_c/sub.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_c/top.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_sc
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_sc/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_sc/Makefile_obj
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_sc/input.vc
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_sc/sc_main.cpp
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_sc/sub.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/make_tracing_sc/top.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/xml_py
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/xml_py/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/xml_py/sub.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/xml_py/top.v
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/xml_py/vl_file_copy
/usr/share/doc/verilator/examples/xml_py/vl_hier_graph
/usr/share/doc/verilator/verilator.html
/usr/share/doc/verilator/verilator.pdf
/usr/share/licenses/verilator
/usr/share/licenses/verilator/Artistic
/usr/share/licenses/verilator/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/verilator.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/verilator_coverage.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/verilator_gantt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/verilator_profcfunc.1.gz
/usr/share/verilator
/usr/share/verilator/bin
/usr/share/verilator/bin/verilator_includer
/usr/share/verilator/include
/usr/share/verilator/include/gtkwave
/usr/share/verilator/include/gtkwave/fastlz.c
/usr/share/verilator/include/gtkwave/fastlz.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/gtkwave/fst_config.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/gtkwave/fstapi.c
/usr/share/verilator/include/gtkwave/fstapi.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/gtkwave/lz4.c
/usr/share/verilator/include/gtkwave/lz4.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/gtkwave/wavealloca.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated.cpp
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated.mk
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated.v
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_config.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_config.h.in
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_cov.cpp
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_cov.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_cov_key.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_dpi.cpp
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_dpi.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_fst_c.cpp
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_fst_c.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_heavy.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_imp.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_save.cpp
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_save.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_sc.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_sym_props.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_syms.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_threads.cpp
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_threads.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_unordered_set_map.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_vcd_c.cpp
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_vcd_c.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_vcd_sc.cpp
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_vcd_sc.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_vpi.cpp
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilated_vpi.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/verilatedos.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/vltstd
/usr/share/verilator/include/vltstd/svdpi.h
/usr/share/verilator/include/vltstd/vpi_user.h
/usr/share/verilator/verilator-config-version.cmake
/usr/share/verilator/verilator-config.cmake
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install verilator on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.