     
Product Release Form                         Viewlogic Systems



Product Name:  WorkviewPlus on Windows Release

Platforms:     PC 486/33, 16MB's memory, 120MB hard disk, 800x600
               or better resolution, Microsoft Windows V3.1

Alpha Start Date:   10/15/92            
Beta Start Date:    11/23/92
RTM Date:           4/9/93

Manuals:       Workview Volume Set 
               SPR list

Diskettes
     WorkviewPLUS:       13
     License File:       1
     Library Install:    6



          
Contents:
                                        |----- TOOLS
     WVPLUS ------------------ STANDARD ------- DEVDES
          VIEWDRAW       |              |----- VHDLLIBS
          VIEWTRACE      |              |----- ANALOG
          VIEWSIM        |         
          EDIFNETO       |--- LIB  ----------- BUILTIN
          EDIFNETI       |
          VIEWGEN        |--- TUTOR ---------- UIDEMO
          ALTRAN                        |----- DIGITAL
          VHDL                          |----- VHDL
          EXPT1076                      |----- VHDLDBG
          PARTLIST
          XREF
          CHECK          CBDSFNET       STRESS
          VSM            CBDSBCK        PSTRESS
          ATTDUMP        CBDS2VL        MAXVALS
          ATTDEL         LDRC           BAF2VL
          ATTMERGE       GETPROJ        VL2BAF
          PLD2VHDL       PCBFWD         BILL
          VL2EDIF2       LOGDRC         CALAY
          EDIF2VL2       TEGASNET       CALDIF
          ATTUPDAT       VERILNET       CAL2VL
          PCBBCK         VIEWDATA       VL2CAL
          PCBCHK         CALDIF         VL2CBDS
          PCBFWD         HILONET        VLHOSTID
          WSPICE         OPPOINT
          WVSIM          COLATE


Installation:  You will need approximately 45MB's free disk space.

               1.   Invoke Windows V3.1
               2.   Insert Workview for Windows diskette 1 into
                    floppy drive (lets assume a:)
               3.   From the Program Manager execute "File Run" and
                    enter "a:setup"
               4.   WorkviewPlus on Windows will install itself

               Install does the following:

               a) Installs the WorkviewPlus on Windows product

               b) AUTOEXEC.BAT:   sets the PATH and WDIR
               environment variables to point to the newly
               installed areas.

               For example, if C:\WVPLUS is where you chose to
               install, then the PATH and WDIR variables in     
               your AUTOEXEC.BAT will be modified to:

               PATH=C:\WVPLUS;...........etc...
               set WDIR=C:\WVPLUS\STANDARD 
               set SYSPLT=C:\WVPLUS

               c) SYSTEM.INI (located in your Windows 3.1
               directory):  Rational's BIGWIN driver is loaded. 
               This allows us to support 32 bit applications in
               Windows 16 bit environment.  VMD.386 allows us to
               redirect STDIO messages from the applications to a
               window.
               ...
               ...
               [386Enh]
               device=bigwin.386
               device=vmd.386
               device=env.386
               ...

               d) Creates a WorkviewPlus program group with an
               icon for executing the cockpit.

Security: The last diskette contains the security license file for
          your release.  The license file corresponds to the
          security block also contained in this package.  You
          must copy the license file to a directory in your WDIR
          path.  For instance, if your WDIR=c:\WVPLUS\STANDARD copy
          your license file (LICENSE.WV) to C:\WVPLUS\STANDARD. 
          Place your Block on LPT1 and you are ready to run
          WorkviewPlus on Windows.




To Run:   Once installed you will be left with a WorkviewPlus
          Windows program Group that has an icon for our Cockpit.
          NSD allows the applications to communicate and share
          memory.  NSD is automatically executed by Viewdraw,
          Viewtrace or Viewsim.  Double click on the Cockpit icon
          to get to the WorkviewPlus tool suite.







Things you should know:  


State Files:        WorkviewPlus creates state files which allow
                    you to invoke faster subsequent invocations. 
                    If you modify your viewscript files you will
                    need to delete the state files before
                    reinvoking a WorkviewPlus facility. Otherwise
                    your changes will not be seen.  State files are
                    written to your WDIR directory and have the
                    extension .STL.


BIGWIN messages:    In order to run 32-bit software in the 16-bit
                    Windows environment we use a product called
                    BIGWIN from Rational Systems.  Occasionally
                    you will experience BIGWIN faults and error
                    messages.  The information given in the BIGWIN
                    message is less important then the sequence of
                    events which caused the fault.  Please try to
                    reproduce and document this problem if it
                    occurs.

                    It is best to exit windows and restart when a
                    BIGWIN fault occurs.  


MsWindows Setup:    The following third party products are known to
                    have problems with Microsoft's Setup utility:
                    QEMM's LOADHI driver;  DR-DOS 6.0;  versions of
                    Stacker prior to V3.0, FTP software (tcpip.)










Functionality differences from Powerview:

Powerview is Viewlogic's Unix based product offering.  WorkviewPlus
applications are built from the same source level as Powerview. 
WorkviewPlus is database compatible with Powerview and Workview
4.1.

Viewdraw:      Oats functionality is not supported.

Viewframe:     Powerview supports Tool Encapsulation Files (TEF.) 
               WorkviewPlus supports the following TEF file
               functionality:  Tool Description, Tool Help, Tool
               name, Tool Icon, Tool command arguments. 
               WorkviewPLUS does not support the TEF file interface
               to display graphical dialogs for input.

               Text Editing is done through MsWindows appnotes in
               Viewframe.  Viewsim, Viewtrace and Viewdraw use a
               Viewlogic text editor called Viewtext.

               Viewscript, Macro recording and playback, Plotting,
               Menu and Macro translation is not available in
               WorkviewPlus's Viewframe product.

Viewscript:    Viewscript functionality is completely available on
               the WorkviewPlus product, with the following
               difference:  the ability to redirect standard
               in/out.  This means you can not encapsulate a text
               based application in a graphical UI using Viewscript
               as you can on the Powerview product.  We plan to
               implement this functionality in a future release.

Viewsim:       There are two Viewsim executables shipped with the
               WorkviewPlus product.  One graphical and another
               text based.  For discussion purposes we will call
               the graphical version WVSIM and the text based
               version VIEWSIM.

               LMC Hardware Modeler          - Not available
               LMC Cmodels or Smartmodels    - Not available
               Viewfault                     - WVSIM only.
               Incremental Wirelisting       - Not available
               Zycad XP                      - Not available
               Verilog Integration           - Not available
               (Precendence Sim Backplane)
               Verilog Clone Support         - Not available
               Viewsim XL (compiled code)    - Not available
               Viewsim A/D                   - Not available


The following products are not yet available on WorkviewPLUS:

     ViewPlace, Vnav, Cprobe, Mentor PCB Interface, Cadnetix PCB
Interface, ViewPLD.
































































































