Can chisel implement printf to a file?

Question

Chisel provides the printf function for debugging purposes, when generating verilog, it becomes fwrite system function. How to use verilog simulation to output data to a file instead of the terminal only when the chisel code is modified. Can chisel's printf function do this?

Answer 1

The short answer appears to be no. But there are two issues filed about this

Can chisel implement printf to a file? #1290

Feature Request: Allow printfs to go to different file descriptors #1287

It might be a good PR to submit.