SystemVerilog Language Server

The language server can be hooked up to your IDE or text editor to provide assistance while programming. It helps highlight syntax errors or lint violations and provides fixes for issues if they are available.

The language server is part of the Verible suite and called verible-verilog-ls.

This is work in progress

There are a few changes in the review pipeline, so here is the current progress

[x] Publish diagnostics for syntax errors and lint rules
- [ ] Use lint configuration from .rules.verible_lint instead of all enabled
[x] Provide code actions for autofixes provided by lint rules
[x] Generate file symbol outline (‘navigation tree’)
[x] Provide formatting.
[x] Highlight all the symbols that are the same as current under cursor.
- [ ] Take scope and type into account to only highlight same symbols.
[ ] Provide useful information on hover (#1187)
[ ] Find definition of symbol even if in another file. (#1189)
[ ] Provide Document Links (e.g. opening include files) (#1190)
[ ] Rename refactor a symbol

Hooking up to editor

After installing the verible tools, you can configure your editor to use the language server.

This will be specific to your editor. In essence, you need to tell it to start the verible-verilog-ls language server whenever it works with Verilog or SystemVerilog files.

Here are a few common editors, but there are many more that support language servers. If you have configured it for your editor, consider sending a pull request that adds a section to this README (or file an issue an mention what you had to do and we add it here).

In alphabetical order

Emacs

The lsp-mode needs to be installed from wherever you get your emacs packages.

Here is a simple setup: put this in your ~/.emacs file and make sure the binary is in your $PATH (or use full path).

(require 'lsp-mode)
(add-to-list 'lsp-language-id-configuration '(verilog-mode . "verilog"))
(lsp-register-client
 (make-lsp-client :new-connection (lsp-stdio-connection "verible-verilog-ls")
                  :major-modes '(verilog-mode)
                  :server-id 'verible-ls))

(add-hook 'verilog-mode-hook 'lsp)

Kate

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kate/kate/kate-application-plugin-lspclient.html

First, enable LSP by checking Settings > Configure Kate > Plugins > LSP Client Then, there is a new {} LSP Client icon appearing on the left of the configure dialog. In the User Server Settings tab, enter the lsp server configuration to get it started up on our Verilog/SystemVerilog projects.

{
    "servers": {
        "verilog": {
            "command": ["verible-verilog-ls"],
            "root": "",
            "url": "https://github.com/chipsalliance/verible"
        },
        "systemverilog": {
            "command": ["verible-verilog-ls"],
            "root": "",
            "url": "https://github.com/chipsalliance/verible"
        }
    }
}

Neovim

Make sure to have version 0.5.0 or newer and install the nvim-lpsconfig plugin. Enable the verible config:

-- init.lua
require'lspconfig'.verible.setup {}

See https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/server_configurations.md#verible for configuration options.

Sublime

Consult https://lsp.readthedocs.io/

Installation steps

Enable package control if not already Tools > Install Package control...
Install LSP base package: Preferences > Package Control search for Install Package. Confirm, then search for LSP.
Also, while at it, if you haven't already, install the SystemVerilog package, which gives you general syntax highlighting.
Go to Preferences > Package Settings > LSP > Settings. It opens a global setting file and a user setting skeleton. Put the following in your user LSP.sublime-settings; it already provides the empty outer braces, you need to add the "clients" section.

// Settings in here override those in "LSP/LSP.sublime-settings"
{
  "clients": {
    "verible-verilog-ls": {
      "command": ["verible-verilog-ls"],
      "enabled": true,
      "selector": "source.systemverilog"
    }
  }
}

There is a Tools > LSP > Troubleshoot Server Configuration which might be helpful in case of issues.

Vim

TBD. What I found so far, there is vim-lsp that can be used. There is also neovim.

VSCode

In the vscode/ subdirectory, you find instructions how to build and install an extension for VSCode.