ETAS MDA V8 - Assigning Signals to Instruments; Assigning Signals to a New Instrument

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For each selected bit, a calculated Boolean signal is created. The name of
the calculated signals consists of the original signal name and the bit num-
ber. The calculated signals are available in the Variable Explorer and in the
calculated signals editor. You can use these signals in instruments and
other calculated signals. For more information, see "Assigning Signals to
Instruments" below and "Defining Calculated Signals" on page108.
To delete extracted bit signals, see "To delete a calculated signal" on
page111.
6.5 Assigning Signals to Instruments
To display the actual measure data of a signal, the signal must be assigned to an
instrument. For more information, see "To add a measure file" on page34.
You can perform the following actions:
"To assign signals to a new instrument" below
"To assign signals to an existing instrument" on the next page
"To move or copy signals from one instrument to another instrument" on
the next page
"To replace a signal" on page101
To quickly assign signals to an existing oscilloscope, the selection wheel can be
used. For more information, see "To assign signals using the selection wheel" on
page60.
To assign signals to a new instrument
To see how you can select the relevant signals and assign these to the desired
instrument, watch our video Selecting Signals.
1. In the Variable Explorer, press the CTRL or SHIFT key and mark all signals that
you want to use for analysis.
2. Drag and drop the selected signals to an empty area of the layer or onto
the layer tab in the currently active configuration. It is not possible to drag
signals to another configuration.
The context menu of the layer opens containing an item for each available
instrument type.
3. Select the instrument type that you want to create.
On the layer, the new instrument is displayed in the foreground and high-
lighted. In the Configuration Manager, the name of this instrument is dis-
played in bold.
In the Variable Explorer, you can identify all signals that are assigned to an
instrument in the Used column. For more information, see "To filter
used/unused signals" on page97.
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