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ModelSim SE User's Manual - Electrical and Computer Engineering

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UM-304 11 - Tracing signals with the Dataflow window<br />

The embedded wave viewer<br />

<strong>ModelSim</strong> <strong>SE</strong> User’s <strong>Manual</strong><br />

Another way of exploring your design is to use the Dataflow window’s embedded wave<br />

viewer. This viewer closely resembles, in appearance <strong>and</strong> operation, the st<strong>and</strong>-alone Wave<br />

window (see Chapter 9 - Waveform analysis for more information).<br />

The wave viewer is opened using the View > Show Wave comm<strong>and</strong>.<br />

One common scenario is to place signals in the wave viewer <strong>and</strong> the Dataflow panes, run<br />

the design for some amount of time, <strong>and</strong> then use time cursors to investigate value changes.<br />

In other words, as you place <strong>and</strong> move cursors in the wave viewer pane (see "Measuring<br />

time with cursors in the Wave window" (UM-245) for details), the signal values update in the<br />

Dataflow pane.<br />

Another scenario is to select a process in the Dataflow pane, which automatically adds to<br />

the wave viewer pane all signals attached to the process.<br />

See "Tracing events (causality)" (UM-306) for another example of using the embedded wave<br />

viewer.

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