Identifying transactions faster with Verdi

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Very often designers find that there are certain unique characteristics/attributes that differentiate transactions. For instance Transaction kind being ERROR/SPLIT/RETRY etc. Wouldn't it be nice if on a 50,000 clock cycle simulation dump one can:

* Quickly identify the "information" from "raw data" of signal toggles? (see: http://www.cvcblr.com/blog/?p=130)
* On top of previous item, classify the transactions based on user specified "attributes/fields" such as ERROR/SPLIT/RETRY

This is very handy trick with Verdi. Select Message -> Filter/Colorify as in screenshot below:

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