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`.sv`

1 claimant 1 primary 0 secondary unambiguous primary

SWH popularity

Distinct files in the full Software Heritage archive (2026-06-04 export), dated by first appearance, following Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz (MSR 2025). Case-aggregated. citation.

2.2M

total files

1.4M

first seen 2021–2025 (61.8%)

2022

median year (half its files since)

Case variants in archive: .sv (2.2M), .SV (2.5K), .Sv (3), .sV (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to SystemVerilog as primary by 3 authoritative claims.

Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✓ Pygments ✓ Wikidata · Q1387402 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (3)

Languages that list .sv among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.

Language	Source	Strength
SystemVerilog	linguist	primary
SystemVerilog	pygments	primary
SystemVerilog	wikidata	primary

Wikidata says… (1)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .sv on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.

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Format	Class (Wikidata `P31`)	Suggested label	MIME	Notes	Action
SystemVerilog Source Code File Q126960642 file format	file format	—	`text/x-systemverilog`	—	Use as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (1)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive, grouped by predicted language and by how the prediction was made. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.

SystemVerilog (1) — 1 via unique-primary

fftw.sv · 2541 B · seen 50× in SWH

predicted: SystemVerilog via unique-primary

swh:1:cnt:c1bda654250570a30b897eb263aa0353093f4bfb;origin=https://github.com/phucducnguyen/uvm-fft-ofdm;anchor=swh:1:rev:86775bdc37e79a41a640a7bc3a36005d8c8a916e;path=/fftw.sv

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