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# The Beginnings of a high-performance, low memory footprint VCD Viewer in Rust for massive multi-GB waveforms
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## Features
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- very fast
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- loads 200MB of VCD waveform per second on an 8 core 2017 desktop CPU with NVMe storage
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- consumes roughly between 10 - 50MB of memory per GB of waveform
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- elegant/pretty UI
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- can be easily ported to work in browser via webassembly
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- allows high-performance custom Rust plugins to manipulate and
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generate new waveforms live
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## Running
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Make sure you have a test vcd file to get you started. You can grab
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a large VCD file from
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[here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pfm2qo2l8fGTHHJ8TLrg1vSGaV_TUbp2/view?usp=sharing).
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The first build of the program may take some time.
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``cargo run --release test-vcd-files/aldec/SPI_Write.vcd``
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# TODO
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- [x] We need a way to merge lines.
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- [ ] We need to start regression testing the parser over all files
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- [ ] Take a look at GTKWave parser to compare effificiency.
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- [ ] Send survey to community channel.
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### May 18
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- [ ] move while loop into word yielding iterator |