ChipScope Pro Software and Cores User Guide
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ChipScope Pro Analyzer Client Interface
level of hierarchy in the tree. To access the context-sensitive menu, right-click the node in
the tree. Device and unit renaming, child window opening, device configuration, and
project operations can all be done through these menus.
To rename a device or core unit node in the project tree, right-click the node and select
Rename
. To end the editing, press
Enter
or the up or down arrow key, or click another
node in the tree.
Signal Browser
The signal browser displays all the signals for the ILA or VIO core selected in the project
tree. Signals can be renamed, grouped into buses, and added to the various data views
using context-sensitive menus in the signal browser.
Renaming Signals, Buses, and Triggers Ports
To rename a signal, bus, or trigger port name in the signal browser, double-click it, or right-
click and select
Rename
. To end the editing, press
Enter
or the up or down arrow key, or
click another node in the tree.
Adding/Removing Signals from Views
To remove all the signals from either the waveform or listing view, right-click any data
signal or bus in the signal browser and select
Clear All > Waveform
or
Clear All > Listing
.
In the case of a VIO core, to remove all the signals from the VIO console, right-click any
signal or bus, and select
Clear All > Console.
Similarly, all signals and buses can be added
to the views through the
Add All to View
menu options. Selected signals and buses can be
added through the
Add to View
menu options.
To select a contiguous group of signals and buses, click the first signal, hold down the
Shift
key, and click the last signal in the group. To select a non-contiguous group of signals and
buses, click each of the signals/buses in turn while holding down the
Ctrl
key. When you
use this method, the order of the signals in the bus are in the order in which you select
them.
Combining and Adding Signals Into Buses
For ILA cores, only data signals can be combined into buses. For VIO cores, signals of a
particular type can be grouped together to form buses. To combine signals into buses,
select the signals using the
Shift
or
Ctrl
keys as described above. When the
Shift
key is
used, the uppermost signal in the tree is the LSB after the bus is created. If the
Ctrl
key is
used, the order of signals in the bus matches the order in which the signals are clicked, the
first signal being the LSB.
After you have selected the signals, right-click any selected signal and select
Move to Bus
>
New Bus
. A new bus is created at the top of the
Data Signals and Buses
sub-tree (in the
case of ILA cores) or at the top of that particular sub-tree (in the case of VIO). To add a
signal or signals into an existing bus, select the signals and select
Move to Bus
, and then
the bus name in the following submenu. Added signals always go on the MSB-end of the
bus. The
Move to Bus
operation removes the signal(s) from the list of individual signals
when they are combined into the bus. The
Copy to Bus
operation is the same as
Move to
Bus
except the signals remain as individual signals in the list.
