VHDL Simili -Sonata

[VHDL User]

Hi All,
For my VHDL simulations I use Sonata,out of compulsion as its free!
(Educational Institutions and free software go together!)
Anyways,I want to know whether it is possible to generate a VCD file from
a simulation from this software,and if so how?
It does save the waveforms,but in a self readable format (.sws or
something)...and I need the VCD file for further processing.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot

[Guenter Dannoritzer]

Hi,

VHDL User wrote:

> Hi All,
> For my VHDL simulations I use Sonata,out of compulsion as its free!
> (Educational Institutions and free software go together!)
> Anyways,I want to know whether it is possible to generate a VCD file from
> a simulation from this software,and if so how?
> It does save the waveforms,but in a self readable format (.sws or
> something)...and I need the VCD file for further processing.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks a lot
>
>

Have a look at their web page. There is an area called contribution:

http://www.symphonyeda.com/contribs.htm

You find a tool called Lst2Vcd which converts the output from Sonata to
a VCD file.

Hope that helps.

Guenter

[VHDL User]

Hi
Thanks a lot for the link.The utility lst2vcd however seems to exist only
for Windows.After downloading and unzipping the file,I saw a whole bunch
of .exe and .bat files,and README.TXT confirmed it.
I use Linux (Mandrake) and wuld appreciate if anybody has any other tools
or utilities for linux
Thanks again Guenter.


On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Guenter Dannoritzer wrote:
> Have a look at their web page. There is an area called contribution:
>
> http://www.symphonyeda.com/contribs.htm
>
> You find a tool called Lst2Vcd which converts the output from Sonata to
> a VCD file.
>
> Hope that helps.
>


On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Guenter Dannoritzer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> VHDL User wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > For my VHDL simulations I use Sonata,out of compulsion as its free!
> > (Educational Institutions and free software go together!)
> > Anyways,I want to know whether it is possible to generate a VCD file from
> > a simulation from this software,and if so how?
> > It does save the waveforms,but in a self readable format (.sws or
> > something)...and I need the VCD file for further processing.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks a lot
> >
> >
>
> Have a look at their web page. There is an area called contribution:
>
> http://www.symphonyeda.com/contribs.htm
>
> You find a tool called Lst2Vcd which converts the output from Sonata to
> a VCD file.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Guenter
>
>

[Guenter Dannoritzer]

VHDL User wrote:

> Hi
> Thanks a lot for the link.The utility lst2vcd however seems to exist only
> for Windows.After downloading and unzipping the file,I saw a whole bunch
> of .exe and .bat files,and README.TXT confirmed it.
> I use Linux (Mandrake) and wuld appreciate if anybody has any other tools
> or utilities for linux
> Thanks again Guenter.

Did you look at the Simi2Vcd tool? It seems to have C code included.

Guenter

[Joe]

VHDL User wrote:
> Hi
> Thanks a lot for the link.The utility lst2vcd however seems to exist only
> for Windows.After downloading and unzipping the file,I saw a whole bunch
> of .exe and .bat files,and README.TXT confirmed it.
> I use Linux (Mandrake) and wuld appreciate if anybody has any other tools
> or utilities for linux
> Thanks again Guenter.
>
>

There is a C source code file included in the lst2vcd.zip file.
For UNIX/Linux coment out the first line of the C code
(that was for Turbo C) and then you can compile it using gcc.

Joe