Revision history for Dinotrace The contributors that suggested a given feature are shown in []. * Dinotrace 9.4b 2010/01/12 **** Fix core dump when no hostname in /etc/hosts. [Chitlesh Goorah] * Dinotrace 9.4a 2009/04/03 ** Dinotrace is now distributed under GPL v3 (previously GPL 2). **** Fix Emacs 22 warnings on dinotrace.el/sim-log.el. [Chitlesh Goorah] **** Fix core dump on start on Fedora, fedora478749. [Manuel Wolfshant] * Dinotrace 9.3f 2008/02/19 **** Fix signal radix being lost when trace is reread. [Uwe Bonnes] **** Fix core dump when verilog trace has single timestamp. [Uwe Bonnes] * Dinotrace 9.3e 2007/02/27 **** Add DESTDIR "make install" rule for RPMs. [Werner Hoch] * Dinotrace 9.3d 2007/02/27 **** Fix "make uninstall" deleting data area (Sorry!!!). [Dinesh] * Dinotrace 9.3c 2007/01/02 *** Add signed decimal radix. [by Uwe Bonnes] *** Builds now take place in "obj_dir" to keep them distinct from sources. **** Fix VCD files with 10 or 100 femtosecond resolution. **** Fix dinotrace.el complaint about bad verilog-mode.el version. [Joseph Holtgrefe] **** Fix core dump when no fonts are available. [Dmitri Belimov] * Dinotrace 9.3b 2006/03/13 *** Fix line number incrementing in Verilog errors. [Uwe Bonnes] * Dinotrace 9.3a 2005/06/13 *** Fix too small buttons under openmotif. *** Fix missing keyboard accelerators under openmotif. * Dinotrace 9.2b 2005/05/03 *** The default extension for Verilog dumps is now .vcd instead of .dmp. **** Fix traces containing only real numbers. [Vitor Antunes] **** Fix segfault when doing signal adds. [Guy Hutchinson] * Dinotrace 9.2a 2004/12/20 ** NEWS file is now renamed Changes. ** Added signal note and cursor note menu items. [Shane Coffman] ** Searching for a non-vector signal will now return a vectored signal. For example a pattern "Foo" will find "Foo[1:0]." [Shane Coffman] **** Save cursor notes in Customize save files. [Thomas Dmukauskas] **** Fix compilation errors on GCC 3.4. [Jaroslaw Gorny] **** Fix segfault when using grid timerep without grid. [Scott Venier] * Dinotrace 9.1n 2004/10/22 **** Fix slow file reading with >128 bit __en signals. [Ta-Chung Chang] **** Fix signed analog display. [Uwe Bonnes] * Dinotrace 9.1m 2004/04/21 *** Fix duplicate and embeded __en cosmos signals. [Krishna Rangan] **** Fix buffer overrun bugs. [Samuel Ho] * Dinotrace 9.1k 2003/06/06 **** Fix crash with busses that are replicated with different widths. * Dinotrace 9.1j 2003/03/22 **** When window is resized, keep same percentage of trace visible. **** Fix File Reread duplicating signals. [Uwe Bonnes] **** Fix File Reread with identically named signals. **** Fix dropping of 0s on signals > 32 bits. [Jason Mancini] **** Fix coredump on read and GCC 3.2. [Jason Mancini] * Dinotrace 9.1i 2003/03/07 *** Display values with appropriate leading 0s. [Dan McMahill] *** Fix 0 extension of verilog values. [Dominik Strasser, Bill Welch] * Dinotrace 9.1h 2002/08/30 *** Save_duplicates is now on by default. **** Fixed several bugs when save_duplicates is enabled. **** Updated Windows install. [Greg Loxtercamp] **** Fixed coredump reading wide ascii traces. [Vitaly Oratovsky] * Dinotrace 9.1g 2002/01/24 *** Reread all traces on receiving a USR1 signal. [Uwe Bonnes] **** Allow value searches on one-bit signals. [Vitaly Oratovsky] * Dinotrace 9.1f 2002/01/08 *** Let right button terminate Zoom click. [Uwe Bonnes] **** Fixed Emacs 21.0 incompatibility with back-annotation. **** Hacked around bug causing window manager crash when using Examine inside Zoom. [Uwe Bonnes] * Dinotrace 9.1e 2001/11/16 *** Allow 1-bit wide signals to have statenames. [Dominik Strasser] *** Eliminate common prefix from postscript dumps. [Dominik Strasser] *** Show count of posedges and negedges in value examine. * Dinotrace 9.1d 2001/05/24 *** Fixed missing 0's in display of >64 bit numbers. [Amitvikram Rajkhowa] *** Fixed stripping of characters after bus prefix. [Steve Hoover] * Dinotrace 9.1c 2001/02/13 *** Fixed Verilog reading ignoring the hierarchy separator. [Dominik Strasser] * Dinotrace 9.1b 2001/02/13 **** Documentation updates. * Dinotrace 9.1a 2001/01/22 ** Added analog waveform format. [Dave Colson] Includes new Signal Waveform menu and signal_waveform command. * Dinotrace 9.0m 2000/11/21 **** Fixed a bug reading compressed tempest on Digital UNIX. [Steve Hoover] * Dinotrace 9.0l 2000/08/30 ** Added support for femtosecond Verilog timescales. [Derek Bosch] * Dinotrace 9.0k 2000/07/17 **** Fixed bug with $comment after $enddefinitions. [Harunobu Miyashita] **** Fixed Tempest reading signals over 128 bits. [Ta-Chung Chang] This bug was introduced in 9.0i. **** Fixed portability bug with Value Examine showing 0s. [Ta-Chung Chang] **** Fixed Verilog reading with large time intervals. [Matthias Wenzel] * Dinotrace 9.0i 2000/05/01 ** Major speed improvement in reading Tempest traces. All trace formats now have less processing when building busses from individual bits. [Steve Hoover] *** ASCII traces assume extra time so last line is not lost. ASCII traces which had timestamps would not show the last state of the bus, as Dinotrace did not guess at how long that last state was valid for. Now, it looks at the smallest time step in the trace, and uses that as a guess at the timescale. [Pani Kodandapani] **** Builds on NetBSD. [Dan McMahill] * Dinotrace 9.0g 2000/01/17 ** Configuration file commands that require times now take times with respect to the time_rep value. Thus if the times are displayed in nanoseconds, the config file values are in ns. This affects grid_resolution and grid_align. Time_goto, resolution and cursor_add were already correct. ** If a common prefix is present on every signal being displayed, then that prefix is no longer drawn, though it is still kept inside Dinotrace. Drawing prefixes may be reenabled with a button in the Configure window, or with the draw_prefix configuration switch. [Dominik Strasser] *** Value Examine (Mouse Button 2) now shows the value shifted to bit 0, if appropriate. For example [10:3]=1 gets displayed also as [10:0]=8. **** Fixed tempest files which start with phase b. [Steve Hoover] **** Worked around a LessTif core dump when print menu appears. **** Speedup when rereading large files with lots of deleted signals. **** Fixed read followed by reread keep appending scope names. [George Varughese] **** Fixed Verilog reading for TOPS traces. [Dieter Werth] * Dinotrace 9.0f 1999/09/29 **** Allowed ' character in signals. [Dominik Strasser] **** Fixed a bug with vpd reading of vector length with #:# [Dominik Strasser] **** Fixed a bug which errored on "$timescale 10 ns" (Space before units.) * Dinotrace 9.0e 1999/09/29 **** Fixed a bug which would resize the screen incorrectly. **** Fixed a postscript bug which would truncate the timestamps. [Rainer Mueller] **** Latest LessTIF Fixed a bug which would omit cursor colors in scrollbar. ** Enhancements: ** Signal Clear Highlight allows for unhighlighting all signals. ** Signal Keep Highlight allows for deleting unhighlighted signals. ** Customize Grid and grid_period allow placement of a grid on exactly each assertion, deassertion or both edges of a signal, rather than on a fixed time interval. * Dinotrace 9.0d 1998/11/30 ** Enhancements: ** Signal Select now allows for deleting signals with X & Zs. ** Signal Select now has two sorting functions. *** Fixed bug with saving signal ordering and slow reread times. [Dan Lussier] *** Added save_duplicates config command to avoid deleting verilog signals which occur many times. [Dan Lussier] *** Added hooks for linking other C programs to Dinotrace. [Steve Hoover] **** Fixed crash on Verilog Dumps. [Lee Bradshaw] **** Fixed crash with bad cursor X-11 error. [Aki Niimura] **** Fixed bug which would make Customize Grid ignore resolution setting. * Dinotrace 9.0c 1998/09/30 ** Enhancements: **** Configures and builds on Windows NT. * Dinotrace 9.0b 1998/08/03 ** Enhancements: ** Value Plus Dumps (aka VPD aka VCD+) are now supported by piping through vpd2vcd. Added supporting -vpd command line and file_format vpd configuration options. **** Configures and builds on Linux. [Celia Clause] * Dinotrace 9.0a 1998/04/13 ** Enhancements: ** Added Customize Save As. Saves a .dino file with controls for which pieces are saved. ** Values are now 4-state on a per-bit basis. U's are still shown for mixed tristate/U busses, but value examine will show the true value. ** Added examination of grids, signal names, and cursors. Added signal_note and cursor_add notes for passing messages to be seen with value examine. ** Rewrote dinotrace.el to use the new verilog-mode.el and support more intelligent key bindings. *** Added many keyboard accelerators, cursor keys, etc. Most are also usable in dinotrace.el *** Signal names won't use up more than 1/3 of the width of the display. A scroll bar was added to see names longer than this. *** High boolean, or busses with all bits set now use a bolder line to aid in discriminating them from low signals. Basic redrawing algorithm was rewritten to support better highlighting and better visibility when showing many changes in little space. *** Added radix selection on a per-signal basis. Added signal_radix command and Signal Radix menu. Added ascii and real radixes. *** Changed the order of parameters for configuration commands, to make them consistent with each other. **This requires upgrading your .dino files. The commands changed are value_highlight, signal_rename and value_highlight, and all cursor_* commands. *** Added hierarchy_separator for aligning signal names, and annotation. *** Added trace selection to Value Annotate. **** Added -IGNORE_XZ to signal_delete_constant. **** Print has moved to the trace menu, since most programs have it under the first menu item. **** Most popups now use forms, for cleaner looks with larger fonts. ** First version distributed outside Digital: ** Dinotrace now uses GNU configure. It compiles clean on Sun Solaris 5.5.1. Added texinfo documents for manual, FAQ, and installation. ** Verilog is now the default format. This includes the default vector_seperator being now "[" to coincide with Verilog. If you are using another format (such as tempest), you will have to override it. *** Removed Digital Internal vtrace and cvtbin programs. Removed old -siz and -pos flags (use -geometry instead.) **** Many source code changes to aid readability and maintainabily. The main trace data structure changed to support true 4-state and to allow future enhancements. This required modifing all trace reading routines, so latent bugs may cause values to be mis-displayed. * Dinotrace 8.3b 1997/09/12 *** Allowed colors in signal_add, signal_move, signal_rename, signal_copy. [Duane Galbi] * Dinotrace 8.3a 1997/01/29 *** Allowed value searches to specify a signal name to search in. [Lisa Noack] *** Made save signal ordering be on by default. *** Added signal_rename command. [Julie Staraitis] *** Added the full documentation to Help menu option. * Dinotrace 8.2b 1996/11/07 **** Fixed a bug which would cause a common bus to be made containing two unrelated signals. [Serge Bogdanov] * Dinotrace 8.2 1996/10/10 *** Added support for 3-state COSMOS traces. [Serge Bogdanov] * Dinotrace 8.1e 1996/07/24 **** Fixed a bug where reading a directory as a config file would crash, rather than warn. [Steve Lang] **** Fixed a bug where annotation would add many leading zeros. [Rachel Berman] * Dinotrace 8.1c 1996/05/20 **** Fixed a bug where signal_add would add signals from any trace, not just from deleted signals. (Use signal_copy to add signals from any trace including deleted signals.) [Michael Quadri] * Dinotrace 8.1b 1996/04/30 **** Fixed a bug where deleting signals would make the top signals in a trace disappear. [Steve Lang] * Dinotrace 8.1a 1996/03/27 *** Added a customize read option, and allowed selection of which .dino files are read automatically with traces. [Mike Kagen] *** Added a tempest format which stores data only when signals change. This greatly reduces file sizes. This new format is created by Verilator, still called a .bt, and automatically detected by Dinotrace. [Paul Wasson] *** Added decimal bus representations. **** Made several speedups to reading ASCII based traces. Verilog is now 32% faster, Decsim 17%. [Reinhard Schumann] Deleting and adding signals with long names will now narrow and widen the space set aside for signal names automatically. Fixed a bug which leaked about 1MB every file read. [Mike Kagen] * Dinotrace 8.0e 1996/03/08 **** Fixed a bug where refresh in a configuration file would crash Dinotrace. [Sol Katzman] * Dinotrace 8.0d 1996/03/06 *** Increased the number of states on a signal to 512. [Mike Kagen, Yifat Ben-Shachar] **** Fixed a bug which would mis-print busses over 32 bits wide. [Steve Glaser] * Dinotrace 8.0c 1996/03/04 ** Massively improved grid support, especially for multi-clock designs. The grid item is no longer on the main menu, all functions are now under Customize Grid. You can now choose which signal to grid, and have up to 4 grids at once. The colors and alignment options are also now selectable. See above for the new grid configuration commands. In the process, also fixed a bug that would cause grid time stamps to be off one tick at the beginning of traces. [Rachel Berman, Steve Glaser] Dinotrace now calculates the period from the LAST assertions in the file, thus eliminating clock start-up effects. [Mike Kagen] ** When rereading a trace, Dinotrace will now attempt to keep the signal position the same. Previously, the trace would jump up vertically to the first signal when rereading. [Paul Chan] ** Added reading a configuration file that is read from DINOCONFIG: (VMS) or the DINOCONFIG environment variable (OSF). This is useful for session specific start-up, like setting screen size depending on what type of system you are using. [Steve Glaser] *** Changed the print requester to allow greater flexability in setting the start and end print times. Also, will now print the value instead of just leaving a blank space if a signal_state is too wide to be printed. [Steve Glaser] *** Added support for displaying 128 bit busses on one line, instead of the previous scheme of displaying them as two lines. *** Added the resolution configuration command to change screen resolutions, just like the Res button. **** Fixed a bug where listing a enable signal after the data signal in a verilog .tra file would crash Dinotrace. [Paul Chan] **** Fixed drawing overlapping numbers when cursors were too close. **** Fixed a bug with deleting constant signals that are no longer constant on rereads. [Mike Kagen] **** Fixed a bug which crashed Dinotrace after reading a corrupted trace file. [Dan Katz] **** Fixed a bug reading ASCII chango which would create a random "SIG 0" when the file had a leading space. **** Fixed a bug which misdrew signals when they were added after scrolling the main window. [Sol Katzman] **** Fixed a bug which crashed Dinotrace when scrolling with a grid on odd signal boundaries. [Sol Katzman] * Dinotrace 7.4a 1996/02/01 ** Added time, value, and signal font selection (see resource section.) [Steve Lang] *** When real numbers are found in Verilog traces a warning is printed rather than a indecipherable error message. [Reinhard Schumann] *** Values in the trace window now use lower case letters when printing hex. This mainly makes it easier to discriminate "E" and "F". * Dinotrace 7.3b 1995/12/04 *** Added support for Merlin binary traces (tempest format). [Dan Katz] **** Fixed a preservation bug. When order preservation was turned on, if a signal was deleted because it was a constant, then a new trace read in which had the signal changing, the new signal would be deleted. Now it will detect this case and not delete the signal. * Dinotrace 7.3a 1995/12/04 ** Dinotrace will attempt to preserve signal colors, ordering, and deletions when re-reading a trace. This is controllable with the save_ordering command and button on the file open window. [Ed Arthur, Steve Kolecki, et al] ** Added manual refreshing, useful for dialup eXcursion. Added related refresh, and refreshing commands. Added refresh button near End button. [Reinhard Schumann] * Dinotrace 7.2b 1995/10/29 *** Added the signal_add command. [Reinhard Schumann] *** Decsim traces now allow '?' as unknows to support the Nextest trace format. [Josh Belkin] * Dinotrace 7.2a 1995/10/04 *** Value Annotation now has separate enables for automatic cursors, which default to off. *** Added a parity calculation message to the Value Annotate window. [Bob Yodlowski] **** Fixed a bug where Verilog DMPs with over 1024 bit busses would core dump. [Dean Sovie] * Dinotrace 7.1c 1995/06/28 ** Files ending in .Z or .gz will now be uncompressed or ungnuzip'ed respectively. This results in large disk space savings. *** Multiple trace files can now be specified on the command line. All will be read in to independent trace windows on startup. [Paul Wasson] *** Added a warning when the timescale is too large in Verilog DMP files. [Yifat Ben-Shachar] **** Fixed a bug which would make commands after Value Highlight behave strangely. **** Fixed a bug where signal searching with the first color couldn't be turned off. [Charlie Lind] **** Fixed a bug where characters after the bus name would be truncated. [Paul Wasson] * Dinotrace 7.1a 1995/05/24 ** Added a socket interface for Emacs (Ultrix/OSF only). This allows Emacs to feed configuration commands, such as cursor placements, to Dinotrace on-the-fly. See dinotrace.el for more information. Added the time_goto, signal_goto, and annotate configuration commands. *** Added the Value Highlight command. [Mike Kagen] *** Added many keyboard accelerators, see KEYBOARD section above. [Paul Wasson] *** The center mouse button now always does value examine. The first button has the same functionality as before. [Many] *** If a value is too small to print, a "?" will be printed instead, presuming that the ? will fit. This allows highlighted values (with value search) to be seen. Value Examine (MB2) can then be used to see the exact value. **** The resolution change button is now of constant size. [Bob Yodlowski] **** Fixed a bug where printscreen would cause "Implementation limit exceeded" printer errors in traces with undefined values. [Bill Bruce] **** Fixed a bug where signals of over 96 bits in Verilog DMP files would show up as blank. [Ben Marshall] * Dinotrace 7.0c 1995/02/20 **** Fixed a bug where highlighting wouldn't happen when the same value was in multiple colors in the value search requester. [Mike Kagen] * Dinotrace 7.0b 1995/02/20 *** Added -noconfig command line option. **** Fixed a performance bug when reading Verilog Dump files. [Tracey Jones] * Dinotrace 7.0a 1995/02/20 ** Added the annotation feature and Emacs library. Any behavioral code debuggers should look at this feature!! *** Added the signal_delete and signal_delete_constant configuration commands. [Paul Wasson] *** Added the delete constant value button in the signal select requester. *** Added a configuration command for using two different grids on rising and falling edges. *** Changed the printout to dynamically compute the width of signal names. This will prevent signal names from being chopped off from the left margin of printouts. [Josh Belkin] *** Tempest format traces will have the cycle count multiplied by one, not two which was the prior default. This can be overridden by time_multiplier. [Paul Wasson] *** Placing one cursor over another cursor will now delete the older cursor. Cursors added in configuration files are now dotted, and will disappear when the configuration is re-read. **** Fixed a bug which would not display tempest signals over 96 bits. Setting the signal separator to non '<' will now break up tempest signals. **** Fixed a bug which would not accept #2 subscripts on signals in DECSIM ASCII traces. [Dave Horan] **** Fixed a bug which would not refresh the trace when the window was resized. * Dinotrace 6.7 1994/10/05 *** This release is the first to include an Alpha-VMS executable. *** PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CHANGES THE FILENAMES OF THE KIT AND EXECUTABLES. The file dinotrace.exe is now named dinotrace_vv.exe, and is distributed as a save set. *** Changed the print requester to add the include-off-screen options. [Bob Walsh] *** Added the cursor_add and signal_highlight configuration commands. [Tom Hunt] *** Added support for Verilator/CCLI tristates. (See the Verilator manual.) *** Added ... to those menu items that pop up requesters. *** Rewrote the ASCII Trace header reader to remove limitations on the number of signals, and length of signal names. *** Auto grid setting now works on Tempest files. Previously it would set the grid based upon phase_count. Now it is set based upon the second signal in the trace. *** Removed a old pre-4.2 limitation on the number of traced signals in a tempest file. [Simcha] **** Fixed a bug where Alpha OSF systems would pop-up windows that were too small to contain all of the widgets. **** Fixed a bug which caused page increments of other than one to not work. [Larry Herman] **** Fixed a bug where some X-servers would crash when large traces were displayed on the screen. [Charlie Lind] * Dinotrace 6.6 1994/05/23 *** This release is the first to include an Alpha-OSF executable. *** The Decsim ASCII reader now also understands traces produced by Chango. Chango Binary is not supported. *** Added an EPS (Encapsulated Postscript) option to printscreen for making figures for inclusion in other documents. [David Chen] *** Added resources to change the screen colors. Changed the background color under every other signal to aid in readability. (Like the old green-barred paper.) [Larry Gust] *** Inside the print dialogue, hitting return in the filename window has the same action as hitting the print button. [Mitch Norcross] *** The limit of 512 signals in a Decsim Ascii trace has been removed. All formats are now limited only by memory availability. [Josh Belkin] **** Fixed a bug where the -res option on the command line would crash Dinotrace. [Erik Debriae] **** Fixed a bug where clicking on OK in File Open without selecting a file would hang. [Larry Gust] * Dinotrace 6.5 1994/01/10 ** Added Trace->Reread All which will reread the trace in every window. To support this Trace->Reread will now only read a trace if that trace has changed, otherwise it will do nothing. The time the trace was created can now be seen under the new Help -> On Trace menu item. *** Added a -geometry to the command line to support the X standard. The now redundant -siz and -pos flags remain for compatibility, but will be removed in the next release. Added start_geometry, open_geometry, and shrink_geometry to config files to support different personal preferences. [Mitch Norcross] *** A optional feature was added that will cause Cursors and Grids to be snapped to a signal edge within 20 pixels of the cursor. Added a toggle button and click_to_edge configuration command to support this. *** Added a note field to print requester. Any information entered will be printed on the postscript print. Changed the B-Sized postscript to spread out the page number at the bottom. *** Moved the file format selector that was under the Customize Change menu to the File Open Menu. Added Decsim Compressed ASCII format on Ultrix only (since VMS can support Decsim Binary), and corresponding -decsim_z switch to command line. [Bob McNamara] *** Added a signal select requester, which allows specific signals to be chosen off from a list of signals. Also allows signals matching a pattern to be selected. [Simcha] *** Dinotrace will automatically zoom out to show the entire trace, when the first trace is read in after starting Dinotrace or selecting Trace Clear, just as if the "full" button was pressed. [Paul Dormitzer] *** Added picoseconds and microseconds to the time representation customize window, and the time_rep configure command. Added the time_precision and time_format configure commands. These may be used to view traces with better than 1 ns precision. Made Verilog format detect the time resolution of the trace automatically. [Paul Dormitzer] *** A bug was fixed which would put error and information windows up on the incorrect trace window. A bug was fixed where a signal that was copied would have its name change when the trace was reread. A bug was fixed in Decsim Binary which would show a signal as the wrong assertion until the first time it changed in the trace. [John Murphy] * Dinotrace 6.4 1993/11/18 *** The major change in this release is in reading files. Verilog format is supported, and Tempest format now works correctly. Decsim binary reading has been speeded up by some 200-300%. ** Added support for Verilog DMP traces. [Edward Arthur, et. al.] See the instructions above for special information on using dumps. ** Added Signal->Search, which searches for a signal name, possibly including wild cards. [Mitch Norcross, Lauren Carlson] Added color bars to the vertical signal scroll bar that shows highlighted signals, similar to the cursors in the horizontal time slider. *** Eliminated glitches in displaying Tempest format traces. [Ronen Boneh] Added "file_format" command to configuration files, and button to configuration menu. I suggest putting the line "file_format tempest" in the DINODISK:dinotrace.dino rather than having to always use the dinotrace -tempest command line switch. Tempest files with tristates are not supported; I do not know of a program which generates tempest tristates. *** Added a "vector_seperator" configuration command which will allow signals that use symbols other than "<#>" to separate the names of signals from their bit subscripts. [Paul Dormitzer] The vectorization routine now always displays the correct subscripts, surrounded by angle brackets, even if a tempest trace file did not have them. Dinotrace also now supports little endian (<0:10>) vectors. [Josh Belkin] *** Added a "print_size" configuration command. Made the print size affect all traces that are open, rather than each trace individually. *** The .dino configuration files used to be read after the trace itself. These files are now read before the trace. This allows commands such as vector_seperator and file_format to take affect on the file that is being read. **** Fixed a bug which would place a cursor at the wrong position when using goto with a position near the end of the trace. [Mike Blake] Fixed a bug where Trace->Open, Trace->Read, Trace->ReRead would crash Dinotrace. [Jai Singh] * Dinotrace 6.3 1993/08/11 ** A new top level value menu was created to effect and search on the value of signals. Signal Search has been moved to Value Search. A new Value Examine has been added to aid in determining which bits are set on large busses, and to determine values when the space is too small to display the value inside the signal's waveform. *** The goto button now has a option menu to place a cursor at the value entered. [Mike Blake] *** It is now acceptable to click Zoom in one window and click on two points in another window. *** Fixed a bug where Ultrix printouts had a incorrect date. [Edward Arthur] **** Fixed a bug where a bus of over 96 bits used to hang Dinotrace. Dinotrace now splits busses of over 96 bit into multiple lines on the screen. **** Fixed a buf where Reading Binary traces which had times over 537,000 ns would cause the screen to fill with garbage. (All times in binary and ASCII traces must still be under 2,000,000,000 ns.) * Dinotrace 6.2 1993/05/14 ** The time scroll bar (horizontal) now shows the position of cursors that are not on the screen. This makes it easy to quickly scroll to the position of the next cursor. *** Dinotrace now uses the logical or environment variable DINODISK, not DINO$DISK, as in the previous versions. This provides compatibility between the VMS and Unix versions. *** A goto button has been added next to the begin button. Pressing it will prompt for the time or cycle number, and then center that time on the screen. [Mitch Norcross] *** The signal search requester now has 2 buttons for each search button. The first is the same as before, and will highlight any display value that equals the value entered. The new second button will add a cursor at the time where the value begins. Cursors that are placed in this fashion are temporary, and will go away if the search value is changed. Highlighting or moving a cursor makes it permanent; it will not go away when the search changes. Likewise deleting a cursor that was placed automatically will still cause the cursor to reappear when the search is requested again. *** Pressing return when entering a signal search value has the same function as hitting "OK". [Mitch Norcross] *** Added A/B sized page selector to the printscreen requester. Added version help option to menu. Time can now be displayed in nanoseconds (as before), or in number of cycles. Cycles are determined based on the grid position and resolution. (Cycle counting is useful for performance analysis.) *** The Trace Open menu option now automatically does a Trace Read in the new window. [Mitch Norcross] **** Fixed a configuration file bug where a ", }" would cause the next line in the file to be skipped. [Mitch Norcross] **** Improved handling of color on Unix systems. **** Added Verilog information and VTRACE to Documentation. [Written by Gregg Bouchard] * Dinotrace 6.1 1993/04/12 ** Added keyboard accelerators. The keyboard may be used to select menu options when the mouse is over the menu by pressing the underlined character in the menus. If the mouse is not over the menu, hold the Compose-Character key while pressing the underlined letter, then release and press the sub-menu letter. [Derrick Dacosta] *** Added a signal copy option. As with signal move, a copied signal will be erased when the trace it came from is closed or reread. [Mike Goulet] *** Changed signal highlight so that the color is chosen from a menu, rather than being toggled when a signal is clicked on. Added a similar function, cursor highlight. [Lauren Carlson] *** Hard coded the color selection values to be the specific colors: Window Foreground, White, Red, ForestGreen, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, Yellow, Salmon, and NavyBlue. *** Allowed lower case "z" or "U" in decsim ascii traces to support Verilog. [Gregg Bouchard] * Dinotrace 6.0 1993/04/06 This is a major release with many new features, so read up! ** The major new feature is multiple trace support. The Trace Open menu option will shrink the current window in half, and open another window. Two traces may then be viewed together, and they will move together and share cursors, etc. Trace Close closes the current trace. Trace Clear closes all other windows and resets Dinotrace as if you exited and then ran Dinotrace again. These options are intended for traces that were made together; using it with traces that are of different lengths is buggy. ** Added Signal Searching to simplify finding data that is dropped on the floor due to bugs. Allows 9 values to be specified which will be searched for in the trace. Each value is entered into a text widget and the toggle button to the left is activated. Anywhere that the value appears in a trace, the value will be printed using the color of the toggle button. There is currently a bug that causes the colors that are used to be somewhat random, and on some machined black. ** Converted user interface to OSF/Motif (which fixed the file selector bug). *** Updated support for Ultrix version. Because binary traces use VMS's RMS, binary traces are not supported in the Ultrix version. [Gregg Bouchard] *** Added different cursors for each mode. Neatened internal code. Removed screen number switch, as it was non-functional (use set display). *** Added Signal Highlight menu option for highlighting a signal and its trace. For now it only alternates between the foreground color and white. *** To make it easier to compare two windows with different traces the resolution now stays constant when resizing the window, and resizing makes more or fewer cycles visible. The resolution of a trace used to change during resizing such that the time range being displayed stayed constant, and the screen was magnified or shrunk. *** Cursors, resolution, and the current position in time are preserve across traces. If they are setup and the trace is reread, they will be in the same place as before. **** Fixed a bug which would cause Dinotrace to crash when using very large (dense) resolutions. Now if a signal is very dense, it may end part way across the screen. (Not perfect, but beats crashing.) [Mike Goulet] * Dinotrace 5.2b 1993/03/11 *** Re-release to fix bug where move signal would crash Dinotrace when using binary traces. Changed "Dinotrace V5.0" to "5.2" in postscript printing. * Dinotrace 5.2 1993/02/17 ** The main new feature is Binary Traces. Dinotrace now can read either binary or ascii traces, and it automatically determines which type is being read. Binary traces should normally be used as they consume less disk space and are less CPU Time intensive. *** The screen now clears at the beginning of reading a new file to make it more obvious when the new data has been loaded. A main part of the reading algorithm calculated exponentials. This was removed, resulting in ~50% speed up on reading large vectored traces. *** Two new resolution changing gadgets were added: zoom: (Text box to RIGHT of number box) Click on two time points. Expands the trace so that the time between the clicks occupies the entire screen. [Mitch Norcross] full: (Text box to LEFT of number box) Shrinks the time so that the entire trace fits onto the screen. [Mitch Norcross] **** A bug where canceling the read requester would erase the trace has been fixed. **** If a vector was not constructed correctly, for example if it consists of <25:3,3,2:1> with either missing or duplicate tag values, the bus will not be combined. Previously they would be assumed to be in order, which could cause misinterpretation. **** If a statename is too wide to print, the number will be printed instead. Previously nothing would be printed. * Dinotrace 5.1 *** Dinotrace now supports state machines with up to 96 states, rather the the 64 allowed earlier. **** Fixed a bug which would prevent printouts from working when printing times over 10,000. [Jai Singh] * Dinotrace 5.0 1993/01/11 *** You may now specify a filename on the command line that will be read when Dinotrace starts up. *** The title in the icon now represents the file that Dinotrace is displaying. This makes it much simpler when many Dinotrace icons are on the screen at once. *** The main window interface has been made consistent with Motif standards. The scroll bar unit and page increments were made consistent. The resolution increase and decrease buttons were swapped. Wide signal widths are no longer truncated. *** Trace ReRead was added. [Lauren Carlson] *** Customize ReRead and Restore were added. The entire customization file and signal_states features were added. * Dinotrace 4.2 Versions prior to 5.0 were by Allen Gallotta. *** Created VMS link procedure *** Signal add dialog box retains focus when adding signals *** Added a check for #2's in trace file **** Fixed signal right justification on printscreen **** Fixed printing of 'wide' bus values on printscreen **** Fixed 'wide' bus representation of signals not a multiple of 32 bits wide, both on screen and printscreen **** Fixed bus string compares **** Fixed last signal always deleted when using cursors **** Fixed crash when resolution was set too high **** Known bug: will crash in File->Select when filtering with long filters ( toolkit problem??? ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This uses outline mode in Emacs. See C-h m [M-x describe-mode]. Copyright (C) 1998-2010 Wilson Snyder. Copyright (C) 1992-1997 Digital Equipment Corportation. 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