Show Signal List for Selected Module

When debugging a design, signals are usually one of most important items which need to be dealt with. To quickly understand how many signals are inside a module, the Verdi system provides a couple of ways to achieve this: the Browse Signals form in nTrace and the Get Signals form in nWave. However, these features work on standalone forms instead of in the main GUI and it sometimes causes confusion for users especially when there are too many windows opened at the same time.

Starting from Verdi 2009.04 onwards, the Verdi system provides a new Signal List pane in the nTrace main GUI, to display all signals inside a selected module directly. Besides displaying signal names and types, signal values can be annotated in this pane. Furthermore, tracing commands and filters are also available in the new pane, to let users to quickly focus signals when debugging a module.

To show the Signal List Pane, you can turn on the View > Signal List command in the nTrace window. Note that all listed signals can be selected and dragged to other views. Alternatively, the Signal List Pane can also be displayed by default by turning on the Show Signal List option in the Source Code > View Options page of the Preferences form (invoked with Tools > Preferences).