37.7 UVM Runtime Elaboration
By performing the runtime elaboration of a UVM test, you can view testbench structures accurately reflecting the configuration at start of simulation.
Go to the
UVM menu and
Select Verification Top.
Pick a test and check
Perform UVM runtime elaboration.
Alternatively, press the
T button in the Verification Hierarchy view toolbar.
Any runtime elaboration of a test is automatically saved and you can later select it as a Verification Top.
The output of the UVM elaboration is printed in the Console View.
Double click on the left vertical bar to add / remove a breakpoint. If you set any breakpoint in the source code, you are prompted to switch to the
Debug Perspective.
Elaboration suspends whenever a breakpoint is reached.
The
Debug View presents all the threads and the current call stack.
The
Variables View presents variable values in the current scope.
The
Breakpoints View presents all the breakpoints and their enablement state.
You can also add printouts without altering the source code by using
tracepoints. Right click on the left vertical bar to add a tracepoint. You can use only a
$display() statement in the editable textbox below the breakpoints list, however its arguments may call other functions.
DPI-C Handling
The UVM runtime elaboration involves DPI-C method calls. DVT has a built-in library of UVM DPI-C implementations. To use it simply check the corresponding box in the verification top selection dialog.
If user-defined DPI-C functions are involved in the elaboration, specify the required shared objects in the
Additional arguments textarea using the standard -
sv_lib, -
sv_liblist and -
sv_root flags, for example:
From the
Project menu you can
Generate the DPI-C header stubs required for the C compilation. Headers, C++ sources and object files are created in the
dvt_dpic directory located in the project root. Particularly if your project uses DPI-C exports you need to specify as additional argument the generated
dvt_dpic/dvt_lib_export.so.