DataViewm menus

• File MENU:

  • Re-Read Data File

    re-read the current data file

  • Read Data File

    display file browser to select data file to read

  • Accept Data

    working data set copied to main data set

  • Restore Data

    main data set copied to working data set

  • Write column format

    writes current working data set to a file in column-oriented (space-separated value) format

  • Write comma-separated-value (csv) format

    writes current working data set to a file in comma-separated value format

  • Write piece-wise-linear (pwl) format

    writes current working data set to a file in piecewise-linear format

  • Reorder data

    specify columns for re-ordering data set

  • TextWindow

    open a TextWindow to view the working data set

  • Rename columns

    rename data columns

  • Overlay all

    (in progress)

  • Close window

    close dataview window, do not exit decida

  • Exit DeCiDa

    exit decida

• Analysis MENU:

  • Statistics

    print time, signal statistics

  • Frequency/Duty-cycle

    open new dataview window with duty-cycle, frequency, period versus time.

  • Edges: Rise/Fall/Slew

    open new dataview window with edge statistics of current signal.

  • Periodic Time-Average

    calculate periodic time-average of the current signal

  • FFT

    Fourier transform.

  • THD

    Calculate total harmonic distortion.

  • Jitter

    clock jitter calculation and dataview window with jitter vs time, etc.

  • Eye-diagram

    generate eye-diagram plot.

  • INL/DNL

    calculate linearity statistics of current signal

  • Oscilloscope

    generate oscilloscope plot.

  • Low-Pass Filter

    filter the current signal with a (single-pole) low-pass filter.

  • Moving Average Filter

    filter the current signal with a moving-average filter.

  • Linear Regression

    generate a linear regression line of the current signal.

  • Quadradic Regression

    generate a quadradic regression line of the current signal.

  • Fourier Expansion

    calculate a Fourier expansion up to specified order and generate the fitting curve.

  • Histogram

    plot a histogram of the current x-column.

  • generate WAV file

    generate a sound file in WAV format using the current signal.

• Operations MENU:

  • Equation-Set

    specify equation for old or new data column

  • Analog to Digital

    create new data column which is the bus value of a set of bus bits, which are sliced from analog values to digital values.

  • Add delineator

    add a delineator column, which toggles from a very low value to a very high value, whenever another column changes value.

  • -x

    negate x-column

  • -y

    negate y-column

  • abs(x)

    absolute value of x-column

  • abs(y)

    absolute value of y-column

  • 1/y

    inverse of y-column

  • delta(x)

    difference between adjacent x-column values

  • dy/dx

    differentiate y-column with respect to x-column

  • integ(y dx)

    integrate y-column with respect to x-column

  • rescale/overlay

    re-scale current signal to the current plot window or specified limits. Overlay the rescaled signal.

  • advance/delay

    create an advanced or delayed signal

• X: Y:

  • select current x-column, XCOL and current y-column, YCOL

DataViewm Red Plotting Buttons:

• Start

  plots YCOL_vs_XCOL curve

• Overlay

  plots YCOL_vs_XCOL curve on current plot, overlayed

• Stack

  plots YCOL_vs_XCOL curve on current plot, stacked above last curve

• Next

  starts new notebook page and plots YCOL_vs_XCOL curve

• Delete

  deletes current notebook page

DataViewm Other Buttons:

• Calc Button:

  • calculator

• Help Button:

  • opens help table of contents