Main Goals

• Parsing
  • Slice an input document into tokens and text blocks which are categorized in groups for fast indexing.
  • reserve case, whitespace and comments.
  • Recover on parsing errors
  • Good error reporting / throw exceptions
• Fast Processing
  • Multi-pass parsing and analysis
  • Delay analysis if not needed for current pass
  • Link tokens and blocks for fast-forward scanning (triple helix)
• Generic VHDL Language Model
  • Assemble a sourcecode document-object-model (Code-DOM)
  • Provide an API for code introspection
  • Provide an API for code modification / transformation

Use Cases

• Generate documentation by using the fast-forward scanner
• Generate a document/language model by using the grouped text-block scanner
• Extract compile orders and other dependency graphs
• Generate highlighted syntax