User guide

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Finding the Next or Previous Edge on Selected Signals . . . . . . 4-17
Searching a Signal (Vector or Scalar) for a Specified Value . . . 4-17
Expanding Time to Display Exact Order of Events Using Delta Cycles
4-19
Delta Cycle Recording for Verilog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
Delta Cycle Recording for VHDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Expand and Collapse Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
View Delta Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21
Cursor Movement in Delta Cycle Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22
Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23
Locating the Cause of Signal Transitions with Event Origin. . . . 4-23
Locating Events Using Breakpoint Groups with Enabled Expressions
4-24
Creating Breakpoint Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24
Searching with Breakpoint Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27
Collecting and Displaying Unique Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27
Changing the Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29
Selecting Drawing Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-30
Modifying Waveform Height. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-31
Adding and Deleting Blank Lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-31
Displaying Strength Based Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-32
Using the Waveform Style Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-33
Additional Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-36
Monitoring a Running Simulation Using Update Mode . . . . . . . 4-36
Printing Waveforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-38
Printing a Time Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-39
Distributing a Printout Across Several Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-39