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Vivado 2015.2 Tutorial: How To Display Internal Logic Elements in The Simulation Waveform

This document provides a tutorial on how to display internal logic elements in the Vivado simulation waveform and how to create a new simulation set. It outlines the steps to: 1) Run a behavioral simulation and select an internal variable to display in the waveform. The variable will be added but not populated until the simulation is re-run. 2) Save the waveform configuration file before re-running the simulation so the settings are not lost. The internal variable will then be displayed. 3) Create a new simulation set to simulate different modules or configurations. This allows selecting a new top level module and configuration file.

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Vivado 2015.2 Tutorial: How To Display Internal Logic Elements in The Simulation Waveform

This document provides a tutorial on how to display internal logic elements in the Vivado simulation waveform and how to create a new simulation set. It outlines the steps to: 1) Run a behavioral simulation and select an internal variable to display in the waveform. The variable will be added but not populated until the simulation is re-run. 2) Save the waveform configuration file before re-running the simulation so the settings are not lost. The internal variable will then be displayed. 3) Create a new simulation set to simulate different modules or configurations. This allows selecting a new top level module and configuration file.

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Vivado 2015.

2 Tutorial
How to display internal logic elements
in the simulation waveform
Serhan Yılmaz1
Introduction
This short tutorial will show you how to display internal variables of a simulated module in the
simulation waveform to be able to debug it effectively as well as how to create a new simulation set.
However the process of creating the project or the information on how to write the module and the
testbench is not included here.

Display internal variables in the waveform


1-1. First run the simulation by Flow > Run Simulation > Run Behavioral Simulation .

1-2. If the simulation is completed without errors, behavioral simulation window will show up
which consists of 3 internal windows:

 Scopes
 Objects
 Waveform
The Scopes window allows selecting a particular module whose variables will be
shown in the Objects window.
Now, select the module which has the internal variable that you want to display in the
simulation waveform from the Scopes window.

Figure 1. Scopes and Objects windows

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1-3. Select the internal variable which you want to display in the waveform. Right click on it and
select Add to Wave Window option.

1-4. The selected variable will be added to the waveform but its values will not be determined
since it is added after the simulation has been completed. To be able to display it correctly,
the simulation needs to be restarted. However, if the configuration file is not saved, the
settings that are applied until this step will be lost upon restarting the simulation. So first
save the configuration file by pressing the hotkey Ctrl + S while waveform window is
selected. A new window will show up. Type a name for the configuration file and click Save.

Figure 2. Adding a variable to the waveform window

1-5 Now restart the simulation by Flow > Run Simulation > Run Behavioral Simulation .
Voila! The internal variable is now displayed in the simulation waveform!

Figure 3. The variable is added to the simulation waveform

Creating a new simulation set


Each simulation set can have only one configuration file and is designed to simulate only one top
level module. In order to simulate other modules with different configurations it is required to create
a new simulation set.

2-1. First click File > Add Sources then select Add or create simulation sources and click Next .

2-2. At the near top of the opened window, there is a text Specify simulation set . Right next to it
there is a dropdown menu to select the simulation set. Choose Create simulation set... and
type the name of the new simulation set then click OK.
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Figure 4. Creating a new simulation set

2-3. Now click on the + button in the left panel and select Create file then select the file and type
and the name and click on OK. Afterwards click Finish.

2-4. A module definition window will show up, since we are adding a testbench there should not
be any inputs or outputs. Click on the input port then click - from the left panel. Then click OK to
create the testbench in a new simulation set.

2-5. Now activate the new simulation set by right-clicking the new simulation set in the Sources
window which is in the Project Manager panel and selecting Make active .

2-6. You can start simulating now on the new simulation set by selecting Flow > Run Simulation >
Run Behavioral Simulation .

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Figure 5. Making the new simulation set active

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