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sv-pathfinder

Tsung-Tso Hsieh

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SystemVerilog design navigation and RTL-tracing for VS Code. Seamlessly integrates with waveform viewer for post-simulation debug.
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sv-pathfinder

VS Code extension for SystemVerilog design navigation, RTL tracing, schematic viewer, and waveform integration with the Vaporview waveform viewer.

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Getting Started walks through prerequisites, setup, and opening your first design.

Features

Navigate a design

  • Browse the elaborated design hierarchy
  • Jump to source: module definitions/instantiations, signal declarations, generate blocks, and more
  • Go back/forward
  • Find instance
  • Select an instance from the Modules view
  • Waveform value & add to waveform (waveform integration)

Setup & details → Open a design.

Schematic viewer

  • Render the RTL (or gate-level) structure of any scope
  • Right-click a scope → Show Schematic
  • Step into child scope / Step out to parent scope
  • Jump to source editor for cell/wire
  • Find in schematic viewer
  • Waveform value & add to waveform (waveform integration)

Setup & details → SCHEMATIC.md.

Waveform integration

With the Vaporview extension:

  • Inline signal values — show signal values in the source editor and schematic view, for the given waveform marker time
  • Add signals to the waveform — from hierarchy view, source editor, or schematic → Show in Waveform / Add All Variables in Scope to Waveform

Documentation

  • Getting Started — prerequisites, backends (.f / .uhdm), opening a design, and all settings.
  • SCHEMATIC.md — schematic setup (OSS CAD Suite), backend tiers, elaboration modes, curated/partial filelists, and all schematic* settings.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to @lramseyer for Vaporview and the inspiration.

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