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 Cannot do Direct Plot in ADE XL 

Last post Thu, Oct 25 2012 3:01 PM by ukelkar. 3 replies.
Started by ukelkar 11 Oct 2012 02:54 PM. Topic has 3 replies.
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  • Thu, Oct 11 2012 2:54 PM

    • ukelkar
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    Cannot do Direct Plot in ADE XL Reply

    Using Virtuoso Design Environment, version IC6.1.5.500.12, ADEXL, The 'Results' Menu is missing. I have to pull up Calculator, then, click on Vt --> click a node on schematic, go back to calculator window to say plot.

     

    In ADE L, have a Results >>DirectPlot >> Main Form window which can let me plot in a free manner with least # of clicks.

     

    Is there a way to enable the results menu within ADEXL?

     

    Thanks in advance,

     

    Uma 

     
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  • Sat, Oct 13 2012 5:42 AM

    • Quek
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    Re: Cannot do Direct Plot in ADE XL Reply

    Hi Uma

    You can access the same plot cmds as follows:
    a. Go to "Results" tab
    b. Right mouse click to display the menu

    Best regards
    Quek
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  • Mon, Oct 15 2012 12:59 AM

    Re: Cannot do Direct Plot in ADE XL Reply
    Uma,

    Where are you looking? If in the ADE XL test editor, then it is intentionally not there - since you can do many simulations (e.g. corners, parametrics sweeps, monte carlo, optimization etc), having direct plot from the ADE XL test editor makes no sense.

    Instead you can do Right Mouse Button->Direct Plot over the specific result you are interested in in the ADE XL Outputs Pane - so you can pick an output from the specific test, corner, parameter value that you wish to plot.

    If it's not there, it's most likely to be because you have an obsolete menus file in your environment - but given that it's there in ADE L, I doubt this is the issue.

    Regards,

    Andrew.
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  • Thu, Oct 25 2012 3:01 PM

    • ukelkar
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    Re: Cannot do Direct Plot in ADE XL Reply

    Andrew,

     

    Right mouse click on the specific result did allow me to do Direct Plot for the exact corner in question. That helps a lot. It helped on the day you posted the answer, I got caught up in waveform viewing before I could reply to this thread! 
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