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Plot all digital traces in one subwindow

LuighiV

Hi,

I am simulating a mixed-signal design, and I have saved in the ADE digital signals obtained via the conversion function awvAnalog2Digital from ViVa. The first time I convert the signals from analog to digital, it adds them to the same subwindow where the original analog signals are. However, once I want to recreate the result and having those signals as waves in the ADE, the new plot adds the digital signals to different subwindows instead of the same subwindow as previously.

Is there a mechanism or a SKILL script that could help that the new plotted digital signals will be in the same subwindow, instead of the default behavior that plots all in different subwindows?

  • ShawnLogan

    Dear LuighiV,

    LuighiV said:
    Is there a mechanism or a SKILL script that could help that the new plotted digital signals will be in the same subwindow, instead of the default behavior that plots all in different subwindows?

    There are two methods I might suggest if you have not already...

    1. Create a Maestro waveform template from the plot you initially created where the signals are all located in a single waveform window as shown in Figure 1.

    2. Save the ViVA window as a ".grf" file and reload the window you save by choosing your new results directory as the current context and reloading the opened ".grf" file from the ViVA 

    Hope these help LuighiV!

    Shawn

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to ShawnLogan

    Figure 1:

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to FormerMember

    I was also going to suggest using plotting templates to solve this (that's better than "grf" files because it handles the changing result database location more readily, and is directly tied into ADE).

    There's also a change request that exists to handle the automatic plotting better: 2630876 (Plot all digital signals in a single subwindow). You could contact customer support and request a duplicate be filed on your behalf, but the simplest and most flexible solution is to use a plotting template.

    Regards,

    Andrew

  • LuighiV
    in reply to FormerMember

    Hi ShawnLogan,

    Thank you for your help. I didn't aware about that option. I review my ViVA interface and, unfortunately, I can't find the plotting template. Perhaps, it is due to the ViVA version. I am using the Virtuoso version IC6.1.6-64b.500.13

     

  • LuighiV
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,

    "...the simplest and most flexible solution is to use a plotting template."

    Is this feature of plotting templates available in all the Cadence Virtuoso versions? I don't why I can't find that option in the menus. I'm using the cadence version IC6.1.6-64b.500.13. Do you know an alternative in case it isn't supported in this version?

    Thank you for your time.

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to LuighiV

    Plotting templates were added in ADE Explorer/Assembler in IC6.1.8 back in 2018. You're using a version from September 2015

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