SV Converter

Extract text from SV files

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Drop or upload your .SV file

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How to extract text from your SV file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SV file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert SV to another file type

To convert your SV file to another format, you need Siemens QuestaSim or other Developer software.

Convert a file to SV

To convert other file formats to the "Hardware Description Language" file type, you need software like Siemens QuestaSim or a similar tool.

About SV files

The .SV file extension primarily represents SystemVerilog source code, a combined hardware description language (HDL) and hardware verification language used to model, design, and simulate electronic systems like FPGAs and ASICs. While these files are technically plain text, they are built for heavy-duty Electronic Design Automation (EDA) environments like Siemens QuestaSim or Xilinx Vivado.

The main challenge users face is the software barrier: opening a raw .SV file usually requires installing gigabytes of specialized engineering software or using command-line tools that lack user-friendly interfaces. Furthermore, sharing these files with non-engineers or archiving them for documentation is difficult because they lack formatting outside of code editors.

Best Conversion Targets:

For Documentation & Archiving: Convert .SV to PDF. This freezes the code state, preserves syntax coloring (if supported), and ensures the file can be viewed on any device without EDA tools.
For Quick Viewing: Convert to TXT or HTML. This strips away IDE dependencies, allowing you to view the logic in a standard web browser or Notepad.
For Legacy Systems: Users sometimes need to transcode SystemVerilog back to standard V (Verilog) for compatibility with older synthesis tools.

*Note: .SV can also refer to Yaskawa Robot system variables or game save files for titles like Diablo II or Stardew Valley. These formats are often binary or proprietary structure, meaning conversion to JSON or CSV is necessary to interpret the data.*

Convert.Guru analyzes your SV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted SV$, SESSION9, SV5, SVG, CSV, SAV, TXT, PDF, ZIP, PNG, DOCX, ASC and MAT files.

FAQ

If you want to convert SV file to REM, MSV, RAD, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG or CONF, you can use Siemens QuestaSim or similar software from the "Hardware Description & Verification" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to SV, try Siemens QuestaSim or another comparable tool in the "Hardware Description & Verification" category.

The SV Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SV converter.