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Hi all,

I trying to debug a piece of code which I have written and I would like to
find out the contents of an array. The array is an integer array and I can
view the contents of individual individual elements but would like to view
the entire contents.

I use the ASSERT command to view individual elements but if possible, I
would like to be able to dump the entire contents of an array to a file and
view it accordingly.

Is there away to do this?

cheers

- Kwaj

kwaj wrote:

> I use the ASSERT command to view individual elements but if possible, I
> would like to be able to dump the entire contents of an array to a file
> and view it accordingly.
>
> Is there away to do this?

Yes.

If you have modelsim, just leaving the
mouse arrow over the array waveform will
pop up a box with all values in it.

If you don't, just add something like this
to your testbench:

report "array of ints";
dump : for i in these_ints'range loop
report integer'image(these_ints(i));
end loop dump;

-- Mike Treseler

I've got model sim...but I am using variables of upto 3000 bits in size. So
might try the other method
"Mike Treseler" <> wrote in message
news:...
> kwaj wrote:
>
> > I use the ASSERT command to view individual elements but if possible, I
> > would like to be able to dump the entire contents of an array to a file
> > and view it accordingly.
> >
> > Is there away to do this?
>
> Yes.
>
> If you have modelsim, just leaving the
> mouse arrow over the array waveform will
> pop up a box with all values in it.
>
> If you don't, just add something like this
> to your testbench:
>
> report "array of ints";
> dump : for i in these_ints'range loop
> report integer'image(these_ints(i));
> end loop dump;
>
> -- Mike Treseler