Compile and Save Design Data Incrementally

Compiling the design into the debug data base is usually the first step to debug, and the vericom utility is provided with the Verdi system to compile and save the debug database incrementally. Starting from Verdi 2009.07, a new module-based mechanism has been added to the vericom utility for incrementally saving the debug data. When users adopt this new mechanism, vericom will save and flush the compile data from the memory to disk right after any module is processed - the memory can be released before vericom attends to the next module. This is extremely useful when compiling a large gate-level design which is typically in a single file; the memory usage could be dramatically saved if there are many modules in this huge design file.

To adopt this new compiling mechanism, users can add the command line option -incsave when running the vericom utility, for example: vericom -incsave -f run.f