The Sigasi Studio documentation generator makes the documentation process more manageable by automatically extracting information from your HDL source files. The biggest advantage is that there is only a single source for both your design and your documentation. While this gives no guarantee that the design stays in sync with the documentation, it certainly makes it easier.

The Sigasi documentation generator has the following advantages:

• No special coding requirements: the plain comments in your code are extracted for the documentation; no need for special annotations. Sigasi uses the same comment association as the hover provider. So, to document a port, you append a comment to a port declaration. To document an architecture, you put the comment just on top of the architecture.
• All included. All documentation processing is done in Sigasi/Eclipse. So you do not need to install extra tools.
• Fully hyperlinked. If you export the documentation, you get a fully hyperlinked document.
• Live preview: you can see what the documentation will look like while you type your code and comments.

Export Documentation

From 5.4 onward, the Sigasi extension supports exporting documentation. To export documentation, follow the steps below:

• Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and type Export
• Select Sigasi: Export Project Documentation
• Follow the wizard steps to customize your documentation

Customization

You can read more about all the customization options here.

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