FastWaveBackend/README.md
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# Disclaimer
PROPRIETARY - Copyright - Yehowshua Immanuel
# The Beginnings of a high-performance, low memory footprint VCD Viewer in Rust for massive multi-GB waveforms
## Current Features
- very fast
- loads 400MB of VCD waveform per second on an 8 core 2017 desktop CPU with NVMe storage
- consumes roughly between 10 - 50MB of memory per GB of waveform
## Planed Features
- elegant/pretty UI
- can be easily ported to work in browser via webassembly
- allows high-performance custom Rust plugins to manipulate and
generate new waveforms live
## Running
Make sure you have a test vcd file to get you started. You can grab
a large VCD file from
[here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pfm2qo2l8fGTHHJ8TLrg1vSGaV_TUbp2/view?usp=sharing).
The first build of the program may take some time.
``cargo run --release test-vcd-files/aldec/SPI_Write.vcd``
You can run all the tests with ``cargo test``
# TODO
- [ ] support multiple root scopes
- [ ] support parsing dates with commas
- [ ] Fix warning especially usage and restriction warnings once I'm
able to successfully parse all sample VCDs.
- [ ] Consolidate error messages and add cursors throughout.
- [ ] Consider what to do with don't care values
will probably just convert them to strings for now.
- [ ] Include line and possible column numbers
- [ ] Take a look at GTKWave parser to compare effificiency.
- [ ] Send survey to community channel.
# Probably No Longer Needed
- [ ] Should insert nodes in BFS order