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8 years ago

[SignalTap] Storage Qualifier

Hi All, I'm about the Storage Qualifier in SignalTap... What's the difference between the Transitional and Continuous qualifiers? I understand that Continuous qualifier captures dat...
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8 years ago

That's the whole point of a storage qualifier. It doesn't show you the interim samples to save on-chip memory storage space. You can enable the option to display storage discontinuities (a line in the waveform view I believe), but it doesn't keep track of how many samples were thrown out in between.

You should not rely on Signal Tap for timing, only functional verification.