Comparescan User Guide

Comparescan Graphical User Interface

Figure 4-4 File System Browser

You can use the Compare Options form to set the start and end times for your comparison, so that you can compare signals during only part of the simulation. You can also set setup and hold times, a time shift, the error count limit for the whole comparison, the error count limit for each object, and the negative and positive tolerances for the comparison.

Click OK on the bottom of the Compare Options form when you have finished choosing your options and input files. To run the comparison that you have defined with the Compare Options form, click Run in the Comparescan window or choose Tools—Run Comparison from the menu bar.

View Menu

For a demonstration of the View menu selections, see “Viewing a Comparescan Error Database” on page 19. The View menu contains the following selections:

Comparescan User Guide

Comparescan Graphical User Interface

■View by Hierarchy—Lists the compare errors for your comparison in the Comparescan window hierarchically, by module name. This menu option has the same functionality as the H-View button.

■View by Time—Lists the compare errors in the Comparescan window in simulation time order. This menu option has the same functionality as the TimeView button.

■Next Error—Displays the next error in the error list in the Comparescan window and in any open Signalscan Waves window. This menu option has the same functionality as the

Next button.

■Previous Error—Displays the previous error in the error list in the Comparescan window and in any open Signalscan Waves window. This menu option has the same functionality as the Prev button.

Window Menu

The Window menu contains the following selections:

■New Window—Opens a new Comparescan window.

■Tile—Arranges all of the currently open Comparescan windows such that they do not overlap one another.

■Stack—Arranges all of the currently open Comparescan windows such that they overlap and slightly occlude one another.

■Iconify All—Iconifies all of the currently open Comparescan windows.

■DeIconify All—Restores all of the currently iconified Comparescan windows.

■Comparescan—Brings to the foreground the Comparescan window that you select from this list.

If you have more than one Comparescan window open (because you used

Window—New Window to create additional windows), this menu selection expands to a list of Comparescan:n selections, where each Comparescan:n selection corresponds to the title of an open Comparescan window. Comparescan:1 is the first Comparescan window that you opened, Comparescan:2 is the second Comparescan window that you opened, and so on.