Debug is extremely difficult to do in large, constrained-random simulations.
1) Even if there is large amounts of data available (such as UVM seq-item dumps), it is extremely slow to analyze the standard text outputs, and requires lots of script writing for each new bug
2) There are times when multiple streams of different sequence-items must be parsed in order to put the suspect sequence-item into context.
I would like to propose adding another UVM output format: XML
Then standard XML report-writers could be used to analyze the multiple output streams and generate statistics or identify possible failures or the failures themselves.
I would then to also like to propose loading that data into SQL databases for more complicated analysis and creation of standard reports.
Erik Jessen