TIMEGEN User's Guide

Creating and Modifying Signals

• 1.0 Add a clock, signal, or bus, or separator
• 1.1 Modify the signal using draw, hi-z, or bus tool
• 1.2 Move the signal position (up/down)
• 1.3 Moving the signal's transition edge
• 1.4 Change the signal name
• a. New lines in signal names
• 1.5 Invert a signal
• 1.6 Add uniform delay to a signal (+/-) delay
• 1.7 Insert or delete a cycle
• 1.8 Insert separator between signals
• a. blank
• b. dotted
• c. solid
• d. rectangle
• e. Move a separator
• f. Delete a separator
• 1.9 Changing the signal attributes
• a. Creating divided clocks
• b. Creating differential clocks
• c. Changing the clock duty cycle
• d. adding rise/fall arrows on the edges
• e. Changing the signal color
• f. Locking a signal

2.0 Creating Text Boxes

• 2.1 Add a Text Box
• 2.2 Delete a Text Box
• 2.3 Change Text Box attributes (font, color, size)
• 2.4 Moving a Text Box
• 2.5 Attach text box to a signal
• 2.6 Attach text box to a label
• 2.7 Aligning Multiple Text Boxes

3.0 Creating Arrow Relationships

• 3.1 Add a bezier, straight, or angled arrow
• 3.2 Deleting the arrows
• 3.3 Changing arrow styles and colors
• 3.4 Moving the arrows with your mouse

4.0 Creating a Label (Setup/Hold) Relationship

• 4.1 Use the label tool for Setup or Hold time
• 4.2 Deleting the labels
• 4.3 Changing label styles and colors
• 4.4 Moving the labels with your mouse

5.0 Creating Invalid Regions (flood fills)

• 5.1 Six different flood types
• 5.2 Clearing the flood fill

6.0 Using Menu Shortcuts (right mouse click)

• 6.1 Changing the Flood Fills
• 6.2 Right click on arrow tool
• 6.3 Right click on label tool

7.0 Scrolling and Controlling the View

• 7.1 Scrolling the view horizonally or vertically
• 7.2 Moving the left margin
• 7.3 Zooming in/out
• 7.4 changing the clock width
• 7.5 changing the signal height
• 7.6 changing the signal spacing

8.0 Exporting Waveforms

• 8.1 To the clipboard
• 8.2 Save as EMF, BMP, or Ascii (XML)
• 8.3 Export as SVG

9.0 Clock Labels and Period Lines

• 9.1 Modifying Clock Labels
• a. Modulo Count
• b. Modulo Offset
• c. Modulo Repeat
• d. Clock Label Spacing
• 9.2 Modifying Period Lines

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