User`s manual

Window overview
7-106 ModelSim XE Graphic Interface ModelSim Xilinx User’s Manual
Window overview
The ModelSim simulation and debugging environment consists of nine windows.
A brief description of each window follows:
• Main window
(7-113)
The main window from which all subsequent VSIM windows are available.
• Dataflow window
(7-124)
Lets you trace signals and nets through your design by showing related
processes.
• List window
(7-128)
Shows the simulation values of selected VHDL signals, and Verilog nets and
register variables in tabular format.
• Process window
(7-142)
Displays a list of processes that are scheduled to run during the current
simulation cycle.
• Signals window
(7-144)
Shows the names and current values of VHDL signals, and Verilog nets and
register variables in the region currently selected in the Structure window.
• Source window
(7-152)
Displays the HDL source code for the design. (Your source code can remain
hidden if you wish, see "Source code security and -nodebug"
(C-292).)
• Structure window
(7-158)
Displays the hierarchy of structural elements such as VHDL component
instances, packages, blocks, generate statements, and Verilog model instances,
named blocks, tasks and functions.
• Variables window
(7-161)
Displays VHDL constants, generics, variables, and Verilog register variables in
the current process and their current values.
• Wave window
(7-164)
Displays waveforms, and current values for the VHDL signals, and Verilog nets
and register variables you have selected. Current and past simulations can be
compared side-by-side in one Wave window.