Virtuoso Video Diary: Usability Enhancements in Digital Signals

We live in a world where the idea of usability is to make products easy to use, make things easily accessible, and visually appealing. It's our constant endeavor to improve the usability of our products. Watch out this space for our posts every month on usability enhancements in Virtuoso® Visualization and Analysis XL.

Over the last few releases, we have enhanced the way digital signals are plotted. We have also introduced a new form that enables you to add mnemonics to help you remember different bit patterns in a digital bus. Read through this blog to know more about these usability enhancements made to digital signals in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL.

Adding Mnemonics to a Digital Bus

Mnemonics are a great way of remembering something. Now you can make use of mnemonics to remember different bit patterns or values of a bus. A new form, Configure Mnemonics, has been introduced in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL to add mnemonics to a bus.

Using this form, you can create a mnemonic map and add rules to define how different bit patterns and values of a bus are rendered with the mnemonic text.

In addition, you can reuse a mnemonic map from SimVision by importing it in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL with the help of a .svcf file.

Combining Digital Traces

Similar to analog traces, now you can combine digital traces from different strips into a single strip. This is helpful when you have a mix of analog and digital traces plotted in different strips in a single graph window or a subwindow. Just click the Combine All Analog Traces command to collect all analog traces into one strip, and all digital traces into another strip.

Expanding a Digital Bus

Expanding a bus, which used to be a multi-click task, can now be done in a single click. To expand a bus, just click the '+' icon next to the bus name in the trace legend area. The bus will expand to show its individual traces.

 Do check out the Usability Enhancements in Digital Signals video to learn the how-tos of these enhancements.

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