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Altera_Forum
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18 years agoI haven't tried to optimize Signal Tap, but from my experience with signal tapping state machines: If you do real enumerated states, where there is a new data type with the list of states as possible values, it shows up in signal tap as each possible state is a discrete signal to tap. Sort of annoying, but not enough for me to try to smooth out Signal Tap. If you declare a standard vector data type for the state switch variable, you can tap that. You can still get what looks like an enumerated state machine by declaring constants for each state value. Those two approaches are what I do; maybe a signal tap guru knows a tool fix.