Laneview - Viavi Xgig User Manual

Chapter 14, Using the Secondary Panes in Xgig TraceView

LaneView

LaneView is visible only for PCIe traces. This tab displays one byte per row per lane. It shows the
data by lanes, and there is a column that shows how many lanes are in the trace. LaneView always
shows the data column wide enough to show contents for x8 traffic. LaneView displays decodes
corresponding to the selected column for ordered sets. Decodes for ordered sets are displayed only
on the row on which K character occurs for the selected lane. Contents of the selected column will
be highlighted and other columns are grayed out. Lane view displays D chars, K chars, electrical
idles, no data, and code violations. Gen2 Unknown OS events are shown in LaneView instead of
Inspector because the
To synchronize LaneView and the TraceView main event grid, click the
in TraceView's toolbar. Use this button to toggle between synchronizing the grids and having the
grids scroll independently.
Several options are available for the display of a data column in LaneView. Right-click a data
column header, and select the type of display. Data can be displayed in
Scrambled Data, Hex, or ASCII
two or more formats within the grid. See
inserting a new column in LaneView.
You can enlarge or reduce the size of the font in the LaneView by using the
buttons.
Figure 151: LaneView
LaneView has some of the same capabilities as the main spreadsheet view. You can insert or delete
columns, and you can set the type of display for some columns. For example, in the timestamp
field you can set the time as
Event by clicking the right mouse on the column. Bookmarks are supported within LaneView.
There is a bookmark column in which you can enter a bookmark name. See
Columns" on page 292
for more information on using bookmarks.
Show EBCDIC/ASCII Representations
By default, the hexadecimal values of each word are also shown, interpreted as ASCII characters.
The ASCII characters display in the last column of the
display of this last column to EBCDIC format. Hex values will be interpreted as EBCDIC
characters.
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view is not able to decode misaligned lane events.
Inspector
format. You can insert a column if you need to display the data in
"Insert New Column" on page 305
,
Calendar Time Time Relative to Capture
for more information on column functions. See
Using the Details Pane
Sync Scroll Grids
10 Bit Data
for information on
, or
Time Relative to
"Working With
"Bookmarks" on page 247
General and Tree tabs. You can change the
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button
, KChar ,
and zoom