Metropolis Model Structure Viewer User's Guide

Introduction

The Metropolis model structure viewer is an Eclipse plugin. It presents a graphical display of the objects in a Metropolis model and the connections between their ports.

Below is an example of the display of the top-level netlist of the Picture-in-Picture modeling example.

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Double-clicking on an object representing a netlist (displayed as a gray box by default) opens another view showing the structure of that netlist. Double-clicking on another object opens a text editor on the source code for that object.

Requirements

The Structure Viewer has been tested on Windows XP and Redhat Enterprise Linux Release 4.

The Structure Viewer requires Eclipse 3.1 or later, using Java version 1.5 or later, and the Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) Eclipse plugin, release 3.1.1 or later. It also requires a local installation of Metropolis. Also, in order to do automatic layout, the open-source GraphViz layout programs from AT&T must be accessible.