How to Get Hyperlinks and Coloring in Existing Simulator Logs

Overview

This video shows how you can easily browse the content of an existing simulator log in the DVT Eclipse IDE.

Explore the design and verification tools: www.dvteclipse.com
Or request a license: www.dvteclipse.com/request-license

This video was shot using DVT 22.1.31

Details

Introduction

When running a simulation using Run Configurations, DVT can highlight and hyperlink errors, warnings, and methodology-specific messages. The same behavior can be achieved for pre-existing simulator log files.

Displaying Pre-Existing Simulator Log Files

  1. Open the Run Configuration dialog and create a new configuration which displays the content of a log file.
  2. For a generic approach, use the selected resource location variable.

Enabling Coloring and Hyperlinks

To enable coloring and hyperlinks:

  1. Go to the Filters tab.
  2. Select the appropriate simulator and methodology.

Creating a Shortcut

For easier access, you can also create a shortcut in the Shortcuts tab. A pretty-printed version of the simulator log is now one click away.

Using the Built-in Run Configuration Example

For convenience, a run configuration example is built into the tool. You can access it from:

dvt-examples > misc > run configurations