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Hi,
Our lab is used to work without partitions on relativly smaller designs (compile time<1h). The last debugging steps are done with signaltap, a quick and flexible method. Most of the time we use it in presynthesis mode. It is rather hard to find the right nodes quickly in post fit mode... or does somebody has some tricks for that?
Anyway, now we have a bigger design wich will have to compile (much) longer. We splitted it up in partitions and will spend a lot of debugging cycles in one partition at a time while preserving the other partitions. Can we setup a presynthesis signaltap in a bottom up flow, only recompiling the partition of interest with a signaltap module and importing the others? And how to do that? Can signaltaps be merged over partitions?
I appricate any experiance with signaltap in combination with partitions
Using Q9.1
Kind regards,
Johannes
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Hi Johannes,
first of all it is not possible to define signaltap in a partition, which you would like to import in your toplevel. In my opion it should be possible to import all the partitions and define the signaltap on the toplevel. I would expect ( I will give it a try) that only the signaltap and the routing to the choosen nodes will be done, but I'm not sure which preservation level you could use.
Kind regards
GPK
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