The panel Vector Editor Window is used to display and edit all the specified step’s channels vectors. The window can be opened by clicking on the Vectors... button in the Steps Page. The vector editor window displays the current vectors memory that start with the specified Offset with the specified Count. If the domain was running the patterns in, the recorded results are superimposed on the vectors in the window. The recorded results support two modes of operation that is determined by the Record Mode drop list box of the Steps Page:
● Record Error Mode.
● Record Response Mode.
The following screen shows the Vector Editor window in Record Error Mode:
Virtual Panel – Sequence Vector Editor Window, Record Error Mode
The following screen shows the Vector Editor window in Record Response Mode:
Virtual Panel – Sequence Vector Editor Window, Record Response Mode
The following controls are shown in the Sequence Vector Editor window:
Vector Editor Grid: This is the primary control to view and edit vectors that are assigned to a particular sequence step. The character in each cell of the grid represents a data opcode. The data opcode encodes information on the output vector, Tri-State control, and real time compare expect vector. When the sequence record mode is set to error (from the Steps page), the background color of each cell will represent the pass/fail result recorded in the last sequence burst. Green indicates a pass and red indicates a failure. When the sequence record mode is set to response, the background of each cell will contain a blue line or a red line representing a logic high or logic low. A blue line indicates that the vector passed, and a red line indicates that the vector failed. Note that in response mode, errors are recorded in the error memory on a per vector basis. In error mode, the record memory contains errors on a per channel and vector basis. The first column displays the channel name as set in the Channels page.
Fill Block group box:
Use the fill block controls to easily apply commonly used vectors.
Function drop list box: Selects the type of vector function to apply.
Clock: Clock style alternating vector.
Repeat: Repeating vector.
Ramp: Ramp vector.
Value: Apply a single data opcode.
Hi Opcode drop list box: Selects a data opcode to apply as one of the two opcodes in an alternative clock type or ramp type vector.
Lo Opcode drop list box: Selects a data opcode to apply as one of the two opcodes in an alternative clock type or ramp type vector.
Cycle Width edit box: Sets/Displays the width of the alternating clock vector.
Invert step edit box: Sets/Displays the step within the cycle width when the vector is inverted in the clock alternating vector.
Repeat Data edit box: Sets/Displays a repeating set of data opcodes.
Channel Range (group box):
Used to select a range of data cells to fill.
First edit box: Sets/Displays the first channel to select.
Last edit box: Sets/Displays the last channel to select.
Vector Range (group box):
Used to select a range of data cells to fill.
First edit box: Sets/Displays the first vector to select.
Last edit box: Sets/Displays the last vector to select.
Fill button: Apply the selected vector, as configured using the Fill Block controls, to the selected range of channels and vectors.
Errors group box:
Use the fill block controls to easily apply commonly used vectors.
Errors edit box: Sets the error number to find.
Errors Label: Displays the total number of errors recorded in the vector set assigned to the current Step.
Find button: Find the error number entered in the Error edit box.
Find Next button: Find the next error.
Write button: Write the vectors from the editor to the data vector memory.
Read button: Read the vector memory and show in the vector editor.
Init button: Write the default R “Repeat” opcode to the entire range of vectors assigned to the currently selected Step.