Generating waveforms with ChiselTest framework

Question

I have a ChiselTest tester written as follows:

class EccTester extends FlatSpec with ChiselScalatestTester with Matchers {
    behavior of "Testers2"
  it should "send data without errors" in {
    test(new EccPair(width=8)) {
      c => {
        val rnd = new Random()
        for (i <- 0 to 20) {
          val testVal = rnd.nextInt(1 << c.getWidthParam)

          c.io.dataIn.poke(testVal.U)
          c.io.errorLocation.poke(0.U)
          c.io.injectError.poke(false.B)
          c.io.injectSecondError.poke(false.B)
          c.clock.step(1)
          c.io.dataOut.expect(testVal.U)
          c.io.outputNotEqual.expect(false.B)
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

I am able to run the test in the shell with

testOnly chisel.lib.ecc.EccTester

But when I try to generate waveforms per the ChiselTest documentation,

testOnly chisel.lib.ecc.EccTester -- -DvwriteVcd=1

The test executes OK but does not dump a waveform.

Documentation I referenced is https://github.com/ucb-bar/chisel-testers2, and the full source code is at https://github.com/hutch31/ip-contributions/blob/ecc/src/test/scala/chisel/lib/ecc/EccTester.scala

Chick Markley · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-14 19:19:43Z

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I don’t think there is a formal answer to this yet, but here’s what I do. First I add the two following imports.

import chiseltest.experimental.TestOptionBuilder._
import chiseltest.internal.WriteVcdAnnotation

then add the annotation to the test like this

  it should "send data without errors" in {
    test(new EccPair(width=8)).withAnnotations(Seq(WriteVcdAnnotation)) {
      c => {

Note: there are two definitions of WriteVcdAnnotation, one is in package treadle and the other is in package chiseltest.internal. Use the latter, as it will work for both treadle and verilator backends.

answered Feb 14, 2020 at 19:19

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FabienM Over a year ago

With chisel 3.5.0, chiseltest.experimental.TestOptionBuilder is gone. And WriteVcdAnnotation is now in simulator : import chiseltest.simulator.WriteVcdAnnotation is enough now. discussion in mailling list : groups.google.com/g/chisel-users/c/UGbBiN_VyHg

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