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ChipScope Pro Software and Cores User Guide
UG029 (v14.3) October 16, 2012
Chapter 4:
Using the ChipScope Pro Analyzer
Display Type
The bus plot can be displayed using lines, points, or lines and points. The display type
affects all bus values being displayed.
Bus Selection
The bus selection control allows you to select the individual buses to plot (in data vs. time
mode) or the buses to plot against one another (in data vs. data mode). The color of each
bus can be changed by clicking on the colored button next to the bus name.
Min/Max
The Min/Max display is used to show the maximum and minimum values of the axis in
the current view of the bus plot.
Cursor Tracking
The X: and Y: displays at the bottom of the bus plot indicate the current X and Y
coordinates of the mouse cursor when it is present in the bus plot view.
VIO Console Window
To open the Console window for a VIO core, select
Window
>
New Unit Windows,
and
the core desired. A dialog box is displayed for that ChipScope Pro Unit, and you can select
the
Console
window. (Windows cannot be closed from this dialog box.)
The Console window is for VIO cores only. To open the Console for a particular VIO core,
double-click the
VIO Console
leaf node in the project tree. Here, you can see the status and
activity of the VIO core input signals and modify the status of the VIO core output signals.
In the VIO Console window, you can perform all signal browser operations, such as bus
creation, radix selection, and renaming, by right-clicking on a signal or bus in the column
heading. The VIO Console window has a table with two columns: Bus/Signal and Value.
Bus/Signal Column
The Bus/Signal column contains the name of the bus or signal in the VIO core. If it is a bus,
it can be expanded or contracted to view or hide the constituent signals in the bus. In
addition to all the operations available in the signal manager, two additional parameters
can be set through the right-click menus: type and activity persistence.
VIO Bus/Signal Type
The signal type determines how a signal is displayed in the Value column of the VIO
console. Different types are available depending on the type of VIO signal:
•
VIO input signals have the following display types:
−
Text: ASCII characters
−
LEDs
-
Choose between red, blue, and green LEDs
-
Either active-High or active-Low
•
VIO input buses have only one valid display type: Text
•
VIO output signals have the following control types:
