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Setting VIVA Waveform Color Defaults When Using ADE

By David Neilson on April 21, 2009Comments(3)Filed under: RF design, Virtuoso Spectre, Spectre, spectreRF, MMSIM71

I found myself getting a little bit frustrated with some of the default colors that would come up in the VIVA waveform tool while I was plotting from the Analog Design Environment (ADE). After working with Kabir, the Product Engineer for VIVA, I discovered that the colors for the waveform defaults are actually being set by ADE. There are a set of probe layers or Y layers in the Display Resource File that ADE cycles through to match up highlighted nets on the schematic with traces in the waveform tool. Setting these colors and line types correctly will define the palette that VIVA will cycle through as it draws traces.

If you are interested in how to set these layer defaults, please watch this short video presentation.

 

 

 

David Neilson

Comments(3)

By Raj on April 23, 2009
Thanx for the tip. Is there a way you can change the background to black rather than white? How do you do that?

By DonDnile on April 24, 2009
Hello Raj....

Setting the background is a little less complicated.

On an individual waveform basis, go to the menus and select:

Frame -> Edit -> Rect Color Scheme

The choices are Black, White and Gray.

If you want to get really fancy and change it on a permanent basis, you can edit or create a file called .cdsenv in the location where you start the software. Here is the setting for this file.

honeydew is a personal favorite... LOL...

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background
Specifies the background color for the default color scheme in rectangular graphs (Graph-Color Schemes-Default). You can change this in the Graph Attributes dialog box.

Syntax
wavescan.rectGraph background string "background_color"
Values
background_color
Background color in rectangular graphs.
Default: white
Valid values: Colors available on the palette below.

white
lightGray
gray
darkGray
black
red
pink
mistyRose
orange
gold
lightTan
lightBrown
yellow
lightGoldenrod
lemonChiffon
blanchedAlmond
green
yellowGreen
olivedrab
honeydew
cyan
aquamarine
darkSeaGreen
cadetBlue
blue
greyBlue
lightSteelBlue
skyBlue
magenta
blueViolet
purple
violet



By Roland on December 31, 2009
Can somebody give an overview of all syntax to customize viva?

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