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I'm working on a digital waveform viewer for VScode. I started it back when I used to work for an FPGA company, and needed to debug soft CPUs. Now it's starting to rival the proprietary software. I should probably do a show HN at some point...

https://github.com/Lramseyer/vaporview

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Very cool but being tied to a code editor is not ideal. Have you ever looked at https://surfer-project.org?

Being tied to the code editor is the entire point, otherwise I would have just used GTKwave. Integrating it into the code editor - specifically VScode allows me to support terminal links (instance paths and timestamps from sim logs), first class remote SSH support (instead of having to use a laggy VNC session), and design hierarchy to RTL. Though you need a separate extension for that, because the waveform viewer is language agnostic and simulator agnostic by design. If you have ever used Verdi, it does design hierarchy to RTL, and I wanted to make a modern and open source version of that.

Surfer is fantastic, and the developers of Surfer are pretty great people too! It has been on my to-do list to learn Spade.

+1 GitHub star!

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