User`s manual

Wave window
7-176 ModelSim XE Graphic Interface ModelSim Xilinx User’s Manual
Adding items with a Wave window format file
To use a Wave window format file you must first save a format file for the design
you are simulating.
• add the items you want in the Wave window with any other method shown
above
• edit and format the items, see "Editing and formatting HDL items in the Wave
window"
(7-178) to create the view you want
• save the format to a file with the Wave window menu selection: File > Save
Format
To use the format file, start with a blank Wave window and run the DO file in one
of two ways:
• use the do command on the command line:
do <my_wave_format>
• select File > Load Format from the Wave window menu bar
Use Edit > Select All and Edit > Delete to remove the items from the current
Wave window, use the delete command
(CR-40) with the wave option, or create a
new, blank Wave window with the View > New > Wave selection from the Main
window
(7-113).
Note: Wave window format files are design-specific; use them only with the design you were simulating
when they were created.
Combining and grouping items in the Wave window
The Wave window
allows you to combine
signals into busses or
groups. Use the Edit >
Combine menu
selections to call up the
Combine Selected
Signals Dialog box.
A bus is a collection of
signals concatenated in a
specific order to create a
new virtual signal with a
specific value.