Workspace Edition

Workspace tutorial

https://www.amcad-engineering.com/02-whiteboard-workspace-intro/

Workspace layout

The workspace interface is devided into multiple sections:

  • General Toolbar : common tools to manage the workspace
  • Control Toolbar : necessary controls to build, filter or extract data from measurement files
  • Whiteboard Tools : Workspace navigation; control configuration and workspace file management
  • Page Navigation: located at the bottom of the workspace. It allows setting and configuring different pages and navigating from one page to another
  • Workspace: section where to display graphs, tables and all information necessary for the report generation

General Toolbar

Find in this part, all tools to manage workspace and controls:
Workspace section:
  • Start a new workspace
  • Open an existing workspace (*.iw) using the browser or use the arrow to select a recently opened workspace
  • Save the current workspace
  • 'Save as' save the workspace under another name
  • Deploy the workspace (available with Whiteboard Editor options only)
  • Close the opened workspace
Export section:
  • Print all the pages of the workspace
  • Export and save all the pages in *.pdf format
  • Copy the entire active page to clipboard
  • Copy the active graph to clipboard
Pageview configuration section:
  • Expand the page to fit the screen
  • Zoom-in by steps (equivalent of SHIFT + Mouse Wheel)
  • Zoom-out by steps (equivalent of SHIFT + Mouse Wheel)
  • Zoom to scale 1:1
Background section:
  • Refresh the workspace
  • Enable/disable background grid
  • Highlight all controls present on the workspace (independantly of their visibility)
  • Lock the page (Viewer configuration)
  • Show/Hide the option panel
Copy-Paste section:
  • Copy selected control (Shortcut: Ctrl+C)
  • Cut selected control (Shortcut: Ctrl+X)
  • Paste (Shortcut: Ctrl+V)
Undo/Redo section:
  • Undo action (Shortcut: Ctrl+Z)
  • Redo action (Shortcut: Ctrl+Y)
Page section:
  • Add a new page to the workspace
  • Remove active page from the workspace
  • Customise page (page name, orientation and paper size, refer to Page Navigation)
  • Previous page
  • Next page
Control section:
  • Delete active control
  • Select all controls
  • Deselect all controls
  • Shift selected controls to upper layer
  • Shift selected controls to lower layer
Assist section:
  • Locate a specific control. When slected, the list of all controls in the workspace are displayed to choose from.

Whiteboard Tools

This section contains all windows needed to manage and configure the controls in the workspace.
  1. Navigation

    This section represents a preview of the workspace. The black frame represents the visible section of the page.
    Using the mouse left-click, move the frame to the region of interest. Navigate between pages using the panel shown below:


  2. Configuration

    This panel is used to configure selected controls. It is divided in two sections:
    1. Common configuration
      This section is common for all controls and refers to the upper part of the configuration panel (in red above).
      • Control ID: unique identifier of the control. The control ID can be customized by the user. Special characters are not allowed except for "_".
      • Source: the source of the data used to feed the control. There are two possibilities:
        • datasources selection: all curves from datasource (default)
        • Control ID: from another control ('filter', 'extractor', 'stacker', ...) that exports only desired curves. Note that Export controls, Initialization Script controls and Function controls cannot be selected as sources.
      • Allowed Curves: Type of curves used in the control. It's possible to have more than one type.

        Three buttons are available to manage the allowed curves. The Clear button removes all curves. If specific curve types are selected in the list, the button is then renamed Remove and will then remove only selected ones. The Reset button will automatically choose allowed curves regarding the type of input data. It is usefull for straight forward applications. The last button is named Add and is used to choose the type of curves to insert in the section, there are multiple available types :

        • IQSTAR Curves :
          • Power sweep using power sensor :
          • Modulated Power Sweep :
          • Video bandwidth using Power Sensors :
          • Power sweep using VNA :
          • Video Bandwidth using VNA :
        • IQSTAR Trace Curves :
          • AM to AM Trace :
          • AM to PM Trace :
          • CCDF Trace :
          • Spectrum Trace :
          • Trace I/Q :
        • I(V) Curves :
        • I(V) Trace Curves :
        • S-Parameters Curves :
        • Large Signal Curves :
          • Large Signal Impedance Sweep :
          • Maury LP/Sp File :
          • Large Signal power Sweep :
          • Maury SPL File :
          • Maury SWP File :
        • Other :
          • Generic :
          • Vision Simulation :
        • Any : adds all curves present in the category
      • Theme: theme of the control. By default, the theme of the application is used
      • Layer: position of the control in layer stack. 0 for background and higher values for the foreground layers. In case of element supperposition, the one with the highest layer number will be on top and selectable.
      • Bounds - Width - Height: location and dimension properties of the control. The origin (X,Y) = (0,0) is at the top left. X are increasing going on the right, Y are increasing going to the bottom.
      • Enabled: When Unchecked, the control becomes idle and no information can be extracted (no longer be used as parent to another conrol).
      • Visible: Hide/Unhide the control in the workspace
    2. Control configuration
      This part is unique for each control and refers to the lower part of the control configuration panel (green section in the figure above). It is used to configure the control. More information about control configuration in section: Control Toolbar.
  3. Files

    This table displays all files attached to the workspace: images (*JPG, *.PNG...); measurements files (*.S2P, *.IMX...) and setups (*.SET). Columns can be sorted and filtered.
    The Image control can directly use these files.
    In the right bottom of the panel, there is a toolbar to manage files:
    • Add new files in the workspace (drag and drop is also available)
    • Remove selected files from the workspace
    • Extract selected files out of the workspace
    • Open measurement files in the Data Manager

Page Navigation



Bottom center of the workspace, there is a panel to navigate from one page to another.
Right-click on a page, opens a menu:
  • Delete page: remove page from workspace
  • Edit page: open a menu to configure the page:

    • Name: name of the page
    • Background: Define background page color
    • Draft: if checked, the page will be considered as draft, and will neither be visible in viewer mode nor exported to pdf
    • Orientation: orientation of the page
    • Paper Size: dimensions of the page