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Documentation for .vsif File


Is there a documentation for the syntax of vsif files (verification session input format)? I couldn't find anything although I already googled for a couple of hours. I'm using SystemVerilog and Cadence xrun. Thanks


Solution

  • Cadence documentation is either online at https://support.cadence.com (requires account) or can be accessed with the cdnshelp command.

    The annoying thing is that Cadence uses cdnshelp as an executable in each of their software packages. If you have both Xcelium and vManager installed, cdnshelp will point to either the documentation for one or the other, depending on what order you have them in PATH. To work around this, call the executable directly (/path/to/vmanager/install/bin/cdnshelp). You can get this path by doing a which -a cdnshelp, which will list you all executables called cdnshelp that you have in PATH.