enhancement/532: Re: enhancement/532: new, binary dump format in addition to vcd

From: Stefen Boyd (stefen@boyd.com)
Date: Tue Jan 27 2004 - 09:20:00 PST

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    The following reply was made to PR enhancement/532; it has been noted by GNATS.

    From: Stefen Boyd <stefen@boyd.com>
    To: etf-bugs@boyd.com
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    Subject: Re: enhancement/532: new, binary dump format in addition to vcd
    Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:25:31 -0800

     Forwarded since his original email bounced.
     Stefen
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     Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:29:55 -0800
     From: Bruce LaVigne <bruce@hp.com>
     To: Shalom Bresticker <Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com>
     Cc: etf-bugs@boyd.com
     
     What a great idea!!! Please, vendors, standardize! Thanks, Shalom.
     
     -bruce
     
     Shalom Bresticker wrote:
    >>Number: 532
    >>Category: enhancement
    >>Originator: Shalom Bresticker <Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com>
    >>Description:
    >
    >
    > As is well known, good old VCD, because it is ASCII-based, creates very large
    > files, even when compressed.
    >
    > I propose we define or, more likely, solicit invitations for, a new, additional
    > format binary-based which will be standard,
    > instead of the multitude of incompatible standards currently existing.
    >
    > This is the time, as the current formats need to be extended anyway in order to
    > support extensions such as SystemVerilog.
    >
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