I have a huge VCD file that I use in combination with gtkwave to observe certain signal behaviors. I have a list of signals stored into a .txt file which are the ones that I wish to probe. The thing is that by doing the insertion of the signals manually by hand is a painstakingly long process. So my question here is,
Is there a way, given the .txt file to compose a .tcl script that filters and adds the designated signals from the list to the waveform editor?
Well, after scouting on manuals and some gists I found here and there seems that there is a load of gtkwave instructions one can use that are listed (most of them) on the gtkwave manual (Appendix E) here. So in a nutshell all one has to do is to write a .tcl script in the following format:
# add_waves.tcl
set sig_list [list sig_name_a, register_name\[32:0\], ... ] # note the escaping of the [,] brackets
gtkwave::addSignalsFromList $sig_list
and then invoke the gktwave as:
gtkwave VCD_file.vcd --script=add_waves.tcl
Furthermore, access to the GUI menu options are viable as well via the following syntax in tcl:
gtkwave::/Edit/<Option> <value>