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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.
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
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support multiple root scopes
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support parsing dates with commas
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Fix warning especially usage and restriction warnings once I'm able to successfully parse all sample VCDs.
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Consolidate error messages and add cursors throughout.
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Consider what to do with don't care values will probably just convert them to strings for now.
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Include line and possible column numbers
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Take a look at GTKWave parser to compare effificiency.
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Send survey to community channel.
Probably No Longer Needed
- Should insert nodes in BFS order