Achronix Speedster22i Snapshot User Manual

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Select Using AND: This option is used to set the trigger condition on the 72-bit bus to be

captured.

Select Using OR: This option is used to set the trigger condition on the particular bits of the

72-bit bus to be captured.

Arm: This is to send the configuration file to the Snapshot Debugger tool, wait for the trigger

condition to be met, retrieve the trace buffer contents, and output a VCD file as well as a LOG

file.

Cancel: This option is to direct the tool to stop the operation. (Limitation: This option

requires power cycling the Bit-porter Pod before continuing).

3. When a trigger event occurs after a proper “Arm”, the Snapshot Debugger will display

the waveform of the monitored signals (Monitor_ch in RTL). shows an example

waveform.

Figure 7: Snapshot Debugger waveform view

To ascertain the signal’s identities, the user must match up the signal# to the Monitor_ch

assignment in the RTL.

In future releases of ACE, the signal names in the waveform will be automatically populated

with the names from the netlist, making the waveform signal names less cryptic.

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