Questa message triangles missing with OVM?

[jgg]

This is a pretty minor thing, but with AVM all messages from avm_report* were marked by time in the Questa wave display with a triangle coloured based on the severity. I've found this quite handy to quickly correlate failures with simulation traces. OVM messages do not do this.. Is there some simple trick to get that feature back?

Thanks,
Jason

[pmarriott]

The same thing is also true with the downloaded version of AVM3.0 versus the source that ships with Questa. There's some calls to a Questa only system call that, as well as displaying the message triangles, also puts the AVM messages into the transcript filtering tool that's available in the Questa GUI. If you do a diff of the report server code in the AVM shipped source versus the downloaded version you'll easily be able to port this functionality to the OVM. (See avm_extern_report_server.svh line 51 onwards - the call is $messagelog).

I would imagine this feature will return once the vendors start including the OVM libraries as part of their shipped simulator releases.



Paul.