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How can you change the waveform viewer defaults to thicker lines and not dotted?

I've looked over a couple previously posted solutions, e.g.:

https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/custom-ic-design/34307/default-colors-in-waveform-viewer

However I can't seem to make this work. I've tried opening the Display Resource Editor and tweaking y0-y9 without success. I continue to see waveforms as shown in the picture. Any ideas?

CADcasualty over 7 years ago

Sigh - I spent a while looking for a solution, gave up and then made this post. Then I looked a little more and found the answer 5 minutes later :-/. Here it is:

https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/custom-ic-design/15018/the-defalut-line-type-in-wavescan/26465#26465

In particular, I need to add the following to my .cdsinit:

envSetVal("wavescan.trace" "lineStyle" 'string "solid")
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Andrew Beckett over 7 years ago in reply to CADcasualty

The line style for y0-y9 affects signals (sent from outputs in ADE) so that they cross-probe on the schematic with the same colour and style; for waveforms plotted by other ways, it uses the ViVA default that you found.

Regards,

Andrew.
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CADcasualty over 7 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Thanks (as always) Andrew.
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CADcasualty over 7 years ago in reply to CADcasualty

Sigh - I thought I had this all locked down, but now that I've gotten out and then back into Virtuoso I'm right back where I started i.e. a waveform viewer with thin dotted lines. I've tried editing y0-y9 again without luck, and when I try envSetVal("wavescan.trace" "lineStyle" 'string "solid") that doesn't do anything either. I'm so confused.

Would somebody mind please providing a bullet-proof set of instructions to make this work robustly. Thanks.
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Andrew Beckett over 7 years ago in reply to CADcasualty

First of all, for any expressions (not signals) then it would be (unless you're using a version prior to IC614), it would be:

envSetVal("viva.trace" "lineStyle" 'string "solid")

(so viva.trace, not wavescan.trace).

For signals, it's the packet associated with y0 to y9 for the schematic you're using - so similar to your other question related to the hilite/drawing packet. My guess is that you've got the packet name wrong? I just tried it and it works OK for me...

Regards,

Andrew.
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CADcasualty over 7 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Yes - your solution to my other problem also managed to solve this one as well.

(I'd be lost without your help in these forums!)
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