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Covered & GTK Wave

Covered 
Covered Verilog code coverage tool http://covered.sourceforge.net/user/ install instructions for FC14

$ yum install covered
-- or --
$ sudo yum install gperf
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/covered/covered-stable/covered-0.7.10/covered-0.7.10.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf covered-0.7.10.tar.gz
$ cd  covered-0.7.10
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/chris/bin/covered
$ make && make install


GTKWave
  • store view (signal selection, time base, zoom) in a save file to save eternally repositioning the GUI
  • Need something to watch signalfile and trigger redraw
  • using LXT2 as compromise between simulation result size and viewing speed

$ gtkwave <signalfile> <savefile>

Working

Basic edit-test-check loop

iverilog -o hello *.v
vvp hello -lxt2
gtkwave test.lxt demo1.sav

Something to recompute the verilog compiled model on source changes? Lots of abandon-ware eclipse plug-ins :-(
  simplifide http://simplifide.com/
  ivi (2005?)  http://ivi.sourceforge.net/