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18 years ago

Simulation gets rid of nodes?

I'm trying to do some debugging by seeing whats in all of my signals. In my .vwf file I go to node finder and I set my filter to Design Entry (all names) and I can see certain signals such as instru...
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18 years ago

The normal reason is, that these signals are presynthesis signals and don't exist after compilation. A combinational signal generally can't be preserved in compilation, if it isn't a real signal, could be an output signal or also an input to a register.