VIVA Plots across many Points

Dear Cdub,

If I examine your plot, on the left panel, I can see there are three variables. Two, as you mention, have the same value. If am interpreting it correctly. As an example:

M2     M2.fw     M3.fw

1         1e-6         1

1         4.55e-6    1

1         8.11e-06   1

...

11         1e-6         11

11         4.55e-6    11

Hence, it appears your plot is making a distinction in variables even thought their values are identical. Is there a reason you can't assign the same variable name to each instance? In this fashion, there are only two variables, one that can be treated as an x variable and one as a y variable. If you want to use the data you have now, you might export the data, save the two unique columns to a comma-separated variable file, use the ASCII file import function to read in your data and then use ViVA to plot the two columns.

There may be other ways to accomplish this more efficiently, but this process came to mind as I read your post.

Shawn

Thank you Shawn for the reply. I was hoping for a way to do it all in ViVA, or adexl. I am editing M2.fingers and M3.fingers in the parameters section where I just set M3.fingers=M2.fingers and M2.fingers is between 1:1:100.

Dear Cdub,

Cdub said:

was hoping for a way to do it all in ViVA, or adexl.

The waveform function is a ViVA function and the ability to export data is also a Calculator function. The function to import the ASCII data is:

getAsciiWave

getAsciiWave( 
t_filename
x_xColumn 
x_yColumn [ ?xskip x_x_skip ] [ ?yskip x_yskip ] [ ?formatFloat g_formatFloat ] [ ?xName t_xName ] [ ?xUnits t_xUnits ] [ ?yName t_yName ] [ ?yUnits t_yUnits ] ) => o_wave / nil

Description

Reads in an ASCII file of data and generates a waveform object from the specified data. The X-axis data must be real numbers. The Y-axis data can be real or complex values. Complex values are represented as (real imag) or complex(real imag). This function skips blank lines and comment lines. Comments are defined as lines beginning with a semicolon.

Arguments

Value Returned

Example

getAsciiWave("~/mydatafile.txt " 1 2 ) 
=> srrWave:32538648

Reads in an ascii file ~/mydatafile.txt, which has x-axis data in the first column and y-axis data in the second column, and returns a waveform object.

getAsciiWave("~/mydatafile.txt " 1 2 ?xskip 1 ?yskip 2) 
=> srrWave:32538656

Reads in an ascii file ~/mydatafile.txt, which has x-axis data in the first column and y-axis data in the second column and skips 1 line in the x_xcolumn and 2 lines in the y_ycolumn, and returns a waveform object.

getAsciiWave("/vout_tran_xy.csv" 1 2 ?xskip 1 ?yskip 1 ?formatFloat nil ?xName "Time" ?xUnits "Secs" ?yName "V(Out)" ?yUnits "V")

Reads in an ascii file, vout_tran_xy.csv, which has x-axis data in the first column and y-axis data in the second column, skips 1 line in the x_xcolumn and 2 lines in the y_ycolumn, x- and y-axis names are Time and V(out), and x-and y-axis units are Secs and V respectively.

Dear Cdub,

Cdub said:

was hoping for a way to do it all in ViVA, or adexl.

The waveform function is a ViVA function and the ability to export data is also a Calculator function. The function to import the ASCII data is:

getAsciiWave

getAsciiWave( 
t_filename
x_xColumn 
x_yColumn [ ?xskip x_x_skip ] [ ?yskip x_yskip ] [ ?formatFloat g_formatFloat ] [ ?xName t_xName ] [ ?xUnits t_xUnits ] [ ?yName t_yName ] [ ?yUnits t_yUnits ] ) => o_wave / nil

Description

Reads in an ASCII file of data and generates a waveform object from the specified data. The X-axis data must be real numbers. The Y-axis data can be real or complex values. Complex values are represented as (real imag) or complex(real imag). This function skips blank lines and comment lines. Comments are defined as lines beginning with a semicolon.

Arguments

Value Returned

Example

getAsciiWave("~/mydatafile.txt " 1 2 ) 
=> srrWave:32538648

Reads in an ascii file ~/mydatafile.txt, which has x-axis data in the first column and y-axis data in the second column, and returns a waveform object.

getAsciiWave("~/mydatafile.txt " 1 2 ?xskip 1 ?yskip 2) 
=> srrWave:32538656

Reads in an ascii file ~/mydatafile.txt, which has x-axis data in the first column and y-axis data in the second column and skips 1 line in the x_xcolumn and 2 lines in the y_ycolumn, and returns a waveform object.

getAsciiWave("/vout_tran_xy.csv" 1 2 ?xskip 1 ?yskip 1 ?formatFloat nil ?xName "Time" ?xUnits "Secs" ?yName "V(Out)" ?yUnits "V")

Reads in an ascii file, vout_tran_xy.csv, which has x-axis data in the first column and y-axis data in the second column, skips 1 line in the x_xcolumn and 2 lines in the y_ycolumn, x- and y-axis names are Time and V(out), and x-and y-axis units are Secs and V respectively.

I don't think it should be necessary to  export the data and bring it in again.

Please can you show an image of the parameters section in the Data View assistant so I can see the sweep setup more clearly? Also please show the expression that you're trying to plot in the outputs. This will help in trying to reproduce the problem and understand a way around it (otherwise I might guess and find something that works anyway).

Also, please report what subversion of the IC tools you're using - Help->About will report this (or type getVersion(t) in the CIW).

Thanks,

Andrew

That would be great! I have attached the pictures of my parameters and tests. I'm using IC6.1.7-64b.500.1; What do you think?