Vsim schematic doesn't work (PULPissimo)

[Nordic]

Goodmirning everyone  

I was trying to track some signals using che schematic tracer built inside Vsim. I tried to do this using the hello test program inside the pulp-rt-examples repo.

I called the simulation enabling the gui using the commands:

Code:

- make clean all
- make run gui=1

but once vsim gui starts, when i try to send the selected instance to vsim schematic editor (doing Rmouse click on the instance -> Add to -> Schematic) i got the following error:
 
# Debug data file, vsim.dbg, does not exist.

#
# Invoke vsim with -debugDB to create this file.

So, i tried to manually set the command -debugdb inside the script invoked before running.


The vsim options file invoked might be located in: pulpissimo/sim/tcl_files/run.tcl and i changed the label to be:

Code:

set TB "vopt_tb -L models_lib -L vip_lib -debugdb"

i try to run the simulation once again, and i noticed the file vsim.dbg has been created inside the working folder (pulp-rt-examples/hello/build/pulpissimo). However when i try to send the instance inside the schematic tracer again i get the following error:

# Schematic viewing and causality tracing unavailable.

# Possible reasons are :
# 1. vopt was run without -debugdb
# 2. The -novopt option is given with -debugdb which is not allowed.

I tried to manually set vopt that might be invoked from the file located in: pulpissimo/sim/tcl_files/config/vsim.tcl

I modified the related vopt arg list to be something like:

Code:

quietly set vopt_args ""

if {$vopt_acc_ena == "YES"} {
 #+ quietly append vopt_args $vopt_args "+acc=abflmnprstv"
 quietly append vopt_args $vopt_args "+acc=mnprv \
                                      -assertdebug \
                                      -bitscalars \
                                      -fsmdebug \
                                      -debugdb \  //line added by me
                                      -linedebug"

both commands are recognised by vsim inside the gui debug windows, but the error which appears is one more time the latter i have shown:

# Schematic viewing and causality tracing unavailable.

# Possible reasons are :
# 1. vopt was run without -debugdb
# 2. The -novopt option is given with -debugdb which is not allowed.

Have I done the whole process correctly, or there are already some command line options i need to set in order to activate the debugdb?

Thanks for the time you will dedicate to me, and thanks in advance for all the incoming suggestions