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script to capture the waveforms to an image in SIMVISION

PedroC

Hi,

I am doing a script that should capture the waveforms, in simvision waveform viewer, for documentation.

The basic idea is, as the user develops the SV sequence there will be some function that will create markers.

Example

.......

setmarker("uvlo_thr_START");

....

setmarker("uvlo_thr_END");

....

These markers will be named with some meaningful text appended by the the keywords "START" and "END".

When there is a match, between the name in the markers, an image will be captured between the markers. You can imagine a simulation with many markers and tens of images being captured automatically to your disk to be used in a powerpoint or another type of document.

The first step is just to export the image using the funcionality provided by the command "print" from SimVision. However, when I save the image in any format (I am using PS/EPS), it will give the same space to the waveforms as to the left pane where the name of all signals are.

The first image shows the simvision screen capture with a snapshot tool. The second, the same image but with the simvision's print command.

As you can see, this is not what we want.

How can I solve this?

Kind regards,

Pedro

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Pedro,

    I'm not sure how to do this (or even if it's possible). You might try asking on the Functional Verification forum where there will be more SimVision expertise (I can't move your post as there's a bug where posts cannot be moved if they have attachments/images), or better still might be to contact customer support (log into http://ask.cadence.com and then use the Case menu to submit a support case). I'd love to experiment and try to solve this myself but don't have the bandwidth in the next couple of weeks to try this, sorry.

    Andrew

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Pedro,

    I'm not sure how to do this (or even if it's possible). You might try asking on the Functional Verification forum where there will be more SimVision expertise (I can't move your post as there's a bug where posts cannot be moved if they have attachments/images), or better still might be to contact customer support (log into http://ask.cadence.com and then use the Case menu to submit a support case). I'd love to experiment and try to solve this myself but don't have the bandwidth in the next couple of weeks to try this, sorry.

    Andrew

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  • PedroC
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    There's absolutely no problem. I will reach out to them.

    Thanks a lot Andrew.

    Kind regards,

    Pedro

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