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Color argument in awvPlotWaveform() not working

Ivars

Hi,

 I'd like to be able to control the color of the waveforms that I add to a VivaXL plot window but the ?color argument in awvPlotWaveforms doesn't seem to do anything. For example, with the following command, the waveform color simply increments to the next available color instead of being set to the value specified by "y2":

 awvPlotWaveform( awvGetCurrentWindow() list( eyeDiagram(v("/outp") 4e-09 1.49e-08 (2 / 28e9) ?intensityPlot nil) ) ?expr list( "I671:outp" ) ?stripNumber list( 1 ) ?color list("y2") )

 I've also tried using the RGB code  0X00FF50 as given in the manual example. The color option seems to have no effect. Neither does the ?lineThickness option.

 Has anyone had any success in manually setting the waveform colors..

 (The reason I want to do this is for comparing families of curves from multiple jobs -- I want each job to have a different color sequence so that if I make one "child" of the family visible from each job, their colors will be different.)

 I'm using IC6.1.5-64b.500.17

 Thanks.

Ivars

 

  • Ivars

    To follow-up on my own question, I contacted Cadence Support regarding this problem. After the support engineer demonstrated the ?color option working for his setup I spent some time investigating why it wouldn't work in my configuration.

    The problem turns out to be ADEXL -- more specifically the hierachy of result directories used by ADEXL.

    If I use openResults() on a specific results directory (I believe called a "design point" in Cadence terminolgy), then the ?color option works.

    However, if I use openResults() with the top level results directory, the ?color option is ignored, even if there is only a single design point. The top-level results directory is considered a "family" of curves, even it the family only contains a single curve. The ?color option doesn't work with "family" results.

    To provide a more concrete example of this, the ?color option will work if I use:

        openResults("/path/to/results/adexl/results/data/Interactive.100/1/testName/psf")

    which opens a single design point result, but not

        openResults("/path/to/results/adexl/results/data/Interactive.100/psf/testName/psf")

    which opens the family of results.

    The whole point of my using the ?color option was to change the color sequence when comparing families of results between two or more  simulation jobs, so this failure is unfortunate.

    I don't really care if I can control the specific colors of the curves within a family, I just want to be able to change the starting index of the color sequence when I plot the same signal from multiple jobs on the same plot. With different color sequence then I can distinguish the curves of the same "child" between multiple jobs. I've asked Cadence Support for help on this.

    Ivars

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