Svtv-chase$
Diagnose hardware or stimulus bugs by studying an SVTV run in a special-purpose
read-eval-print loop.
To enter this read-eval-print loop for the first time, run:
(svtv-chase$ svtv env)
where SVTV is an svtv object (as produced by defsvtv) and env is an
assignment to the input/override signals of that SVTV. Depending on the
complexity of the SVTV, the initial setup done by this command may take a few
minutes.
When setup is complete, you'll be shown an SVTV-CHASE > prompt. Typing
? at this prompt shows the commands that may be used there. Typically
you'll start by going to a signal of interest at a certain phase, using the O or
G commands. At a given signal/phase, SVTV-CHASE will print the type of
signal -- primary input, initial state, previous state, or internal signal.
For internal signals, it will also print the list of signals that are this
signal's immediate dependencies. To see the expression driving the current
signal, you may enter EXPR. The next step is usually to select one of the
signal's dependencies and go to it, by typing its number. To go back to the
signal you just left, you may type B to pop the stack of signal/phase
positions.
At some point you may want to exit the read-eval-print loop, which you can
do by typing X at the prompt. To re-enter the loop, you can skip the
initial setup by running (svtv-chase$-repl).
See svtv-chase-defsvtv$ for a utility that gives the same behavior
but doesn't require the SVTV to be defined already.
Subtopics
- Svtv-chase$-compare
- Compare two runs of a module using the svtv-chase$ utility.
- Svtv-chase-defsvtv$
- Enter the svtv-chase$ read-eval-print loop without first defining an SVTV.
