FastWaveBackend/README.md
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Copyright - Yehowshua Immanuel
# A High performance, VCD Parser written in Rust
## Current Features
- pretty fast
## Planned Features
- rapid log2n scrubbing through a signal's timeline
# Current Limitations
Unable to handle VCD files that have signals with more than
2^32 - 1 = 4,294,967,295 deltas/changes.
## 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
- [ ] make a custon date parser for possibly up to 18 different versions(that
is, for each possible tool).
- [ ] Fix warning especially usage and restriction warnings once I'm
able to successfully parse all sample VCDs.
- [ ] Change error messages to line and filenames. Go through all calls to ``format!``
whilst also keep performance in mind.
- [ ] Create compressed fungible numeric enums with good heuristic support.
- [ ] Print out git commit or release number.
- [ ] Should be able to load waveform whilst viewing it live.
- could be quite challenging to implement for various reasons
- [ ] 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.
# Questions to Answer
- [ ] Is it safe to assume that we may treat any values before the first
non-zero timestamp as having occured on `#0`?
# Probably No Longer Needed
- [ ] Should insert nodes in BFS order