Technical data

FLI and PLI tracing

ModelSim EE/PLUS Reference Manual VHDL Foreign Language Interface and Verilog PLI

487

Invokin

a trace

To invoke the trace, call

vsim

(p91) with the

-trace_foreign <int>

option:

Syntax

vsim

-trace_foreign <int> [-tag <string>]

Arguments

<int>

Specifies these actions:

-tag <string>

Used to give distinct file names for multiple traces. Optional.

Examples

vsim -trace_foreign 1 mydesign

creates a log file

vsim -trace_foreign 3 mydesign

creates both a log file and a set of replay files

<int> Action Result

1 create log only writes a local file called

"mti_trace_<tag>"

2 create replay only writes local files called

"mti_data_<tag>.c",

"mti_init_<tag>.c",

"mti_replay_<tag>.c" and

"mti_top_<tag>.c"

3 create both log and replay

16 use for replaying the

original actions