Incisive Transaction Recording Support: Where?

[cubicle82]

I found an appnote on Cadence-sourcelink: "HowtoRunUVMlibrarywithIncisive.pdf"

The following section interests me:

[B]4. ADD INCISIVE TRANSACTION RECORDING SUPPORT[/B]

You can create transactions from your UVM environments and analyze them
using Simvision waveform analysis window or the Transaction Stripe Chart window.
To enable transaction recording you can obtain the uvm_cdns_recording tarball from
uvmworld.org contributions site. This package adapts UVM recording api to create
transactions that are stored in SST2 database.

This package provides a uvm_pkg.sv file that includes transaction recording support.
Replace $UVM_HOME/uvm_pkg.sv in your compile.f file with the following:

<path-to-uvm_cdns_recording>/uvm_pkg.sv

+incdir+<path-to-uvm_cdns_recording>

I searched for this package at UVM Contributions, but couldn't find it. Where do I get it?

[uwes]

hi,

this package has not been posted to uvm world. normally (this was the case with ovm) cadence did supply this as part of the embedded ovm distribution. no addon work was necessary to transactions in simvision. the easiest way to get the package is to contact cadence support or your local ae.

regards

/uwe

[cubicle82]

Thank you ...

I found the necessary file (cdns_recording.svh) is already bundled in the latest IUS92 releases.

(<INST_ROOT>/tools/uvm/src/cdns_additions/*)

[uwes]

hi,

i forgot to mention: if you run IUS with irun using UVM is simply "irun -uvm ...rest..of..files..and.options". the UVM version inside `ncroot`/tools/uvm should be already enabled for transaction viewing etc

regards

/uwe

[cubicle82]

...yes

after about an hour of fiddling around, I realized that if I had simply used the UVM src distribution from the IUS92 install-dir, I would not have spent another 4+ hours trying to figure out how to turn on the transaction tracer

[uwes]

.... in addition to the search time

- the OVM (and later the UVM) versions under ..../tools/ will be actively bugfixed

- if you use "-uvm" it will enable a couple of improvements in handling UVM such as (tcl command support, library precompile, simvision addons/filters etc)

regards

/uwe