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How to get system time in SV?

Jeff000
Jeff000 over 7 years ago

Hi,

I am familiar with $realtime that will return the simulation time in the test bench. But what if I want to get the system time?  Is there any direct function call to achieve this?

Thanks.

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    tpylant over 7 years ago

    There are two ways:

    1. $system("date") will print a value for you to compute manually.
    2. Use dpi to import a UNIX time function.

    Tim

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    Jeff000 over 7 years ago in reply to tpylant

    Thank you. It works now.

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    Jeff000 over 7 years ago in reply to tpylant

    Thank you. It works now.

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