Why doesn a signal appear in Dinotrace?
Check first that it is really in the trace. The strings program will find signal names in every format that Dinotrace supports. If the signal exists in the trace, it may have been deleted by a configuration command. Use the Signal Select popup to add all signals, then use Signal Search to find it. In Verilog VCD files, if a identical signal exists at many levels of hierarchy, only the top level signal will exist. If your naming convention is sane, and doesn’t change names at hierarchy boundaries, you still should find the signal, just with a different hierarchy in front of the base signal name. Furthermore, signals with over 1024 bits are dropped, since they would take too much space on the screen. A bug is not impossible either, though usually Dinotrace manages to eek out a warning message when it is about to lose a signal.
