Invoking ViewTrace

To view a large number of signals simultaneously, open a waveform window in ViewTrace. Use the Setup Waveform Streams command in the Viewlogic simulator to create a .vcd file that contains the signals and vectors you want to view. The wave command also opens ViewTrace. You can also follow these steps.

1. From the Workview Office Toolbar, click on the ViewTrace icon, represented in the following figure.
   
   
   
   
2. Select File Open and navigate to your project directory to select the waveform display file.
   
   The name of the waveform file is the name you used when you added the signals to the waveform. The default name is design.vcd.
   
   
3. Click on OK.
   
   

The Open dialog box closes, and the specified waveform display file opens.

NOTE

If you do not select a VCD file from the File Open list box but instead enter a new name, a stimulus file is created. A stimulus file creates a stimulus command file and does not annotate values during simulation.