Re: gEDA-user: Re: Which are the biggest looking gEDA warts?

[Dan McMahill <dan-atMUNGEDmcmahill_dot_net>]

Stephen Williams wrote:
> Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
>>John Griessen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>wart -- Is there a way to set up iverilog with gtkwave?  Why is ver
>>>2.0 seemingly dead? and the latest version debian package is 1.3.81? 
>>>And gtkwave seems to have two home page sites saying they have the
>>>most recent version -- one 1.3.24 and the other 3.0.22?
>>
>>I have one word for that.  ok, maybe 2. "mmmmmm dinotrace".
>>
>>Seriously, I don't know why I don't hear more about dinotrace here and
>>less about gtkwave.  Not to bash gtkwave, but dinotrace has been around
>>for a long time and has worked fairly well everytime I needed a vcd
>>viewer to go with some verilog sims.
> 
> 
> Because GTKwave is the most talked about? It's also neatly ported
> and packaged for many platforms. Also, when you get more advanced,
> there is the LXT2 format that Icarus Verilog and GTKWave support
> that is a compressed waveform dump format.
> 
> But instructions for using dinotrace with Icarus Verilog are
> certainly welcome: <http://iverilog.wikia.com> I recommend starting
> with a note in the FAQ page that would point to a dinotrace page.

ummmm are instructions needed?

Put this in your verilog code:

       $dumpfile("My_Testbench.dmp");
       $dumpvars(0, My_Testbench);

run the verilog sim.

dinotrace My_Testbench.dmp

As far as being packaged, dinotrace has been in NetBSD's pkgsrc for 7 
years now.

I guess whats really needed is a FAQ entry of "Q:  What free signal 
viewers are available that work with Icarus Verilog?"  with "A: gtkwave 
and dinotrace".

Dinotrace also has an emacs major mode that lets you do some cross 
probing to your verilog source although I haven't used that so much. 
But I don't think there was anything which would make it work 
differently with Icarus Verilog over any other verilog.

-Dan


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