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Function to take Analog Bits Signals into Digital Bus

TempViator

Hi,

In searching the forums, I found old posts where Andrew Beckett provided code files for abA2DBus, a function that takes an analog bus of signals, e.g., VT("/TreakOscFreq<4:0>) and converts them to a digital bus.  In the ADE Explorer outputs list, the signal can then be named.  This is a great function to have!

This required saving two files from Andrew's posts, abA2DBus.il and abDumpWaveformsToVCSV (of which only abUnwrapFamily is called).  Using the 'fx' button, I made them Custom Functions in the Calculator as shown here:

(Sorry I don't have the links, but searching on these function names brings them up.)

I have 2 questions:

1. This conversion would seem to be a very common thing to do with control bus signals... Is this already, or ever, going to be a native Calculator function?  It is so useful it ought to be!

2. The signal plots to ViVA as Hex values. I can manually go change the radix of the signal to something else (like "Signed Decimal"), but is there a function to set the radix ahead of time so it plots to "Signed Decimal", or whatever, without my manual intervention?  This too would be a handy function, and I cannot find a way to make it work on the entire waveform.  Using numConv(value(...  allows the value to be cast to a different radix, but only for a single point in time.

Is there any updates on either of these questions?

Thanks!

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  • TempViator said:
    1. This conversion would seem to be a very common thing to do with control bus signals... Is this already, or ever, going to be a native Calculator function?  It is so useful it ought to be!

    I didn't file an enhancement request at the time (since it was a forum question) and in fact I never even wrote it up as an article for Cadence Online Support (I probably should). As a result, it never made it as far as an enhancement request to be a built-in function. There are many potential candidate functions that could be added, I guess...

    TempViator said:
    2. The signal plots to ViVA as Hex values. I can manually go change the radix of the signal to something else (like "Signed Decimal"), but is there a function to set the radix ahead of time so it plots to "Signed Decimal", or whatever, without my manual intervention?

    I updated the code (in the original post here) to add another argument to set the radix.

    Regards,

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hey Andrew,

    Thanks for updating the code, that is very helpful to me, and I hope, to others.

    Having the entire conversion of analog "bits" to digital busses as a built-in function would be a good supporting function for the trimming simulations questions that lead to (?) / contributed to (?) the interest in the calcValue() function. I guess I will escalate a request if this post gets more traffic.

    Thanks Andrew.

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  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hey Andrew,

    Thanks for updating the code, that is very helpful to me, and I hope, to others.

    Having the entire conversion of analog "bits" to digital busses as a built-in function would be a good supporting function for the trimming simulations questions that lead to (?) / contributed to (?) the interest in the calcValue() function. I guess I will escalate a request if this post gets more traffic.

    Thanks Andrew.

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