User Guide

Chapter 13 Analyzing waveforms
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Tracking simulation messages
PSpice provides explanatory messages for errors that
occur during simulation with their corresponding
waveforms. You can view messages from:
• the Simulation Message Summary dialog box, or
• the waveform display.
Message tracking from the message summary
A message summary is available for simulations where
diagnostics have been logged to the waveform data file.
You can display the message summary:
• When loading a waveform data file (click OK when
the Simulation Errors dialog box appears).
• Anytime by choosing Simulation Messages from the
View menu.
The Simulation Message Summary dialog box
The Simulation Message Summary dialog box lists
message header information. You can filter the messages
displayed in the list by selecting a severity level from the
Minimum Severity Level drop-down menu. Messages are
categorized (in decreasing order of severity) as FATAL,
SERIOUS, WARNING, or INFO (informational).
When you select a severity level, the Message Summary
displays only those messages with the chosen severity or
higher. By default, the minimum severity level displayed is
SERIOUS.
Example: If you select WARNING as the
minimum severity level, the Simulation
Message Summary dialog box will display
WARNING, SERIOUS, and FATAL messages.
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