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Altera_Forum
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Honored Contributortest with massive data
Recently I'm writing a decoding module, which needs massive data for accuracy testing. However, inputing these data manually and putting them in the testbench file seems incredible, so I wonder whet...
Altera_ForumHonored Contributor
Honored ContributorHi,
Not sure what you mean by "massive data". Are you refering to a large quantity of numeric data or a particular type of data? You could write a testbench that accesses your "masive data" files (Assuming you have the massive data in some kind of data file!). VHDL provides a textio package that allows the testbench to access files. Although it has limited functionality, you may be able to write a testbench to parse the file into the form you require. If not then maybe a bit of C/Perl etc preprocessing to make the file easier to handle in VHDL might be beneficial.
