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Dump waves to something better than VCD

Open mkorbel1 opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Motivation

VCD files are simple but big and slow. Other formats could be better for disk space and performance.

Desired solution

Find wave dump format(s) which enable lower space and/or higher performance.

One option could be FST. There's a discussion on adding it to treadle here that may be of interest: https://github.com/chipsalliance/treadle/issues/101

Alternatives considered

Some vendors and tools have proprietary formats that work well with their debug tools. Perhaps it's worth investigating methods to generate those formats.

mkorbel1 avatar Sep 28 '22 15:09 mkorbel1