A basic peripheral to write ASCII output to a file and halt simulation from software

[utku1998]

In the documentation it is written that there is a basic peripheral to write ASCII output to a file and halt simulation from software. I assume that this is only used in case of a Verilator right? In case of a real target, FPGA, the ASCII output will be sent to the UART and not written to the ".log" file.

Functions like puts(), puthex(), putchar() work perfectly fine for the "Ibex Simple System (https://github.com/lowRISC/ibex/blob/master/examples/simple_system/README.md)" when simulating it on the Verilator. The output is written to file "ibex_simple_system.log":

However, the same functions do not write to the file "ibex_demo_system.log", which is still empty after the simulation. Am I doing or understanding wrong or is there a issue there?

Thanks in advance!

[marnovandermaas]

This is not something I have tested before. There is a SIM_CTRL_OUTPUT flag for cmake. Can you try the following command and report back?
$ cmake -DSIM_CTRL_OUTPUT:BOOL=ON ..

[utku1998]

Yes, it worked perfectly. Thanks!