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viva trace color palette: rectangular vs smith chart plot

TommasoF

Hello all,

when plotting a swept signal (e.g. S11 vs bias conditions) on a smith chart I get a different color palette between the rectangular and smith chart plot. How can we match them such to use the same palette?
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Tommaso

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Tommaso,

    It seems that red and green are omitted by default from the default color bank for Smith Charts (probably because of the traditional use of these colours on Smith Charts for the axes). You can however override the default color bank as follows:

    envSetVal("viva.graph" "colorBank" 'string "red, yellow, lightgreen, cyan, blue, magenta, green, pink")

    that's just an example - in which case the color banks become unified between the charts. I think the colors would then be aligned (you could also use Window->Assistants->Customise Trace Groups to set the colors across the windows based on some criteria if you want to alter it).

    What I'm not sure about is the default (the default color bank is "default", rather than a list of colors).

    You might want to contact customer support - there is an existing Cadence Change Request (CCR) #2832817 on this. Nothing being done at the moment - the colorBank env var is the workaround.

    Andrew

  • TommasoF
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    is there a way to retrieve more/all color names so that i can change the color bank as I prefer ?

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