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VSS - BFILE Binary File / other waveform export options

Hi, is it possible to export a waveform from VSS that can be then exported / parsed for use by other tools such as python / matlab / arbitrary waveform generators? I'm looking at the BFILE_SNK block but the format looks like it might be proprietary and only meant to be read by an accompanying BFILE_SRC block.

0 OscPn over 1 year ago

Instead of the BFILE_SNK element, I would suggest using the FILE_SNK element and select these settings:

This will create a text file. Then the text file could be reformatted for the needs
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0 MWMike over 1 year ago in reply to OscPn

Thanks for the reply! Sorry I neglected to mention I want to capture upwards of 1G samples of the waveform (on the order of a second of real-time signal), hence looking into the binary file as opposed to text.
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0 OscPn over 1 year ago in reply to MWMike

The BFILE_SNK/BFILE_SRC can handle file sizes that large. But FILE_SNK exporting a text file with 1 GSamples creates a big size file. The binary file created by BFILE_SNK can only be used by BFILE_SRC, I do not have any information on the contents of the binary file.

I suggest please file a support ticket (support.cadence.com) and I hope you will get a solution that would use VSS components to process the data.
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