It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware
The official vim site is here.
This syntax file can be found here
The VBA package for syntax file can be found here
Description
IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog is the industry's first unified hardware description and verification language (HDVL) standard. SystemVerilog is a major extension of the established IEEE 1364 Verilog language.
Install details
Step 1: Drop the file in ~/.vim/syntax (if the directory does not exist then create it)
Note: If you are using vim 7.0 or better, you can source sv.vba to auto-magically install it regardless of which-ever flavor of
operating system you are using VIM on!!
vim sv.vba and followed by
:source %Step 2: Append following lines in ~/.vim/filetype.vim
if exists("did_load_filetypes")
finish
endif
augroup filetypedetect
au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.sv setfiletype SV
au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.svi setfiletype SV
augroup END
happy vimming!!