Upgrade to the New Unified FSDB Dumper with Good Reasons

A new breed of FSDB dumper has been provided since Novas 2009.10. Different from previous FSDB dumpers, the new dumper is unified to support a broader range of simulators andversions. Currently, the new dumper can support Cadence IUS 6.2, Synopsys VCS2006.06, Mentor Graphics ModelSim 6.4b and their later versions. This topic was originally introduced in the 2010.02 newsletter.

Upgrading to the new dumper (this is recommended if you are using Novas 2010 or later versions) has the following advantages:

• Supportfor the latest versions of simulators
• Simplified list of dumping tasks, command-line options, and environment variables
  • Tasks/options/environmentvariables are now shared across all simulators (Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys)
  • Consolidated items and functionality
• Increased dumping performance with multi-threaded architecture
  • Takes advantage of multi-core or multi-CPU systems
• Simplified dumper library naming; simulator version no longer required
  • No needto update invocation scripts with new simulator versions
• Simplified support for multiple FSDB files
  • Specify the FSDB file as an option to the $fsdbDumpvars command
• Added Siloti ESA and enhanced Siloti ES dumping flows

For an overview ofthe new dumper, refer to the "New Unified FSDB Dumper" application note locatedin the knowledge base (KB#8192-18) of the SpringSoft support website (support.springsoft.com).For complete details on the using the new dumpers, refer to the Linking Novas Files with Simulators andEnabling FSDB Dumping (<NOVAS_INST_DIR>/doc/linking_dumping.pdf) manual.