Re: gEDA-user: gtkwave

[Ian Chapman <ichapman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 01:05 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 20:25 -0400, Ian Chapman wrote:
> > I was learning ghdl and going through an exercise and I generated the
> > adder.vhd file per instructiions.  When I run gtkwave adder.vhd I get a
> > fast flash of what may be an interesting screen and that's it.  Did I
> > miss something when I installed gEDA tarball?  Regards Ian.
> 
> adder.vhd is the VHDL definition of your circuit.

Sorry, I guess I'm getting blind missing that.  The previous stuff
generated the vcd file and I typed in the bad extension.  Sorry again.
Ian.
> 
> You need to simulaate that with ghdl, and pass the output from ghdl into
> gtkwave.
> 
> Its been a long time since I played wtih ghdl, but vaguely recall that
> you have to call it a number of different times with different options.
> 
> You end up with a compled test-bench for your circuit, which you can
> execute and get VCD output suitable for feeding gtkwave.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps, even if I don't know ghdl enough to be of further
> specific assistance.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 



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