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Verilator: Offer option to use FST Tracer

See original GitHub issue

Hi,

very short proposal: Verilator includes FST-Wavedump support for some time now, enabling it would only require an option variabe and instantiating a VerilatedFstC instead of the vcd tracer.

FSTs are much more space efficient compared to vcd’s .

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:8 (8 by maintainers)

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markusddcommented, Oct 22, 2020

Closing here as my PR was just accepted.

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cmarqucommented, Sep 8, 2020

@bluecmd Yes, sure!

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