User`s guide

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Other Ways to Run Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-12
Starting Probe during a simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-12
Pausing a simulation and then running Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-12
Interacting with Probe while in monitor mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-13
Using Schematic Markers to Add Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-13
Limiting Probe Data File Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-15
Limiting file size using markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-16
Limiting file size by suppressing the first part of simulation output . 17-17
Using Simulation Data from Multiple Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-18
Setting up Probe for automatic loading of data files . . . . . . . . . 17-18
Appending data files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-19
Adding traces from specific loaded data files . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-20
Saving Simulation Results in ASCII Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-21
Analog Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-22
Running the Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-22
Displaying voltages on nets and currents into pins . . . . . . . . . . 17-24
Mixed Analog/Digital Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-25
About Digital States in Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-25
About the Oscillator Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-26
Setting Up the Schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-26
Running the Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-27
Analyzing Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-27
User Interface Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-30
Zoom Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-30
Scrolling Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-32
Sizing Digital Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-33
Modifying Trace Expressions and Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-34
Moving and Copying Trace Names and Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . 17-35
Copying and Moving Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-36
Tabulating Trace Data Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-36
Cursors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-37
Tracking Digital Simulation Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-41
Message Tracking from the Message Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-41
The Simulation Message Summary dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-42
How Probe handles persistent hazards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-42
Message Tracking from the Waveform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-43
Probe Trace Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-44
Basic Output Variable Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-45
Output Variable Form for Device Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-46
Analog Trace Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-54
Trace expression aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-54
Arithmetic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-54