Post Processing Commands

Post Processing Commands

These commands allow data analysis and viewing in a simple way. It is not the point of these graphics to provide publication ready quality. It is often useful to dump data into a different program for annotation and preparation of final graphics. However, the graphics included do allow simple capabilities that are quite useful for analysis during the simulation.

Almost all of these commands work on a single data set. The data set can be named directly on those commands that require it. New data sets can be created with the select command using arbitrary expressions. The coordinate set contains 1-3 spatial coordinates and the selected variable as the final coordinate. In three-dimensional simulation, four dimensions are available and the data needs to be sliced to be displayed.

sel, select

This command allows a variable to be chosen as the z coordinate for the plot command to follow.

Select Examples

There are three main sets of commands.

TCL Returns

The first set is used to provide data back to tcl. These commands find/interpolate data and allow the information to be manipulated as tcl variables.

• Bestline

Take a list of x, y data and compute the best fit using linear regression to the line.

1. [Post/bound.html bound ]

   Extract a material boundary.

   [Post/Stats.html#BuildProfile BuildProfile ]

   Take Pearson distribution parameters and build a profile from them.

• Decay

Take a list of data and fit an exponential decay to the data.

• EaCalc

Take a list of data and fit an Arrhenius expression.

1. [Post/Stats.html#FitPearson FitPearson ]

   Take a list of data and fit a Pearson distribution function.

   [Post/element.html element ]

   Extract grid information in a format appropriate for plotting.

   [Post/interface.html interface]

   The interface command returns the location of the specified interface along a given line.

   [Post/interp.html interpolate]

   The interpolate command interpolates the selected plot variable and returns the position.

   [Post/layers.html layers]

   This command prints the material interfaces and integrated plot variable as a function of depth.

   [Post/mater.html mater ]

   Return a list of all material names. This is useful for extracting off material names, and then looping through all materials for data extraction.

   [Post/print.1d.html print.1d ]

   This prints the information along a specified line.

   [Post/Stats.html#sigma sigma ]

   Take a named doping profile and fit a Pearson distribution function.

   [Post/slice.html slice ]

   Extract a data slice along a line.

   [Post/Stats.html#Stats Stats ]

   Take a list of data and fit a standard normal distribution function.

   [Post/vector.html vector ]

   Extract vector information for a velocity field. This returns a list of small arrows for plotting purposes.

   [Post/examples.html#TclReturn Examples]

BLT based plot window control commands

The BLT window offers control over the plot look and can allow you to save plots. The following commands are implemented as scripts, and use the tcl based pipes for passing information. [#TCLReturn TCL return] commands can be used to extract data which can be added to a plot surface. Multiple BLT windows can be opened at any one time.

[Post/BLTplot.html#CreateGraphWindow CreateGraphWindow]

Create a new plotting surface and return the file handle. The file handle is required as a parameter to the other [Post/BLTplot.html BLT window] commands.

[Post/BLTplot.html#CreateLine CreateLine]

Add a new line to an existing plot.

[Post/BLTplot.html#CreateSingleLine CreateSingleLine]

Add a single data set to an existing plot.

[Post/BLTplot.html#ClearGraph ClearGraph]

Clear a graph window of all data, and reset the window.

[Post/BLTplot.html#AddtoLine AddtoLine]

Add one or more data points to an existing line in the plot window.

[Post/BLTplot.html#CreateBound CreateBound]

Add an outline to the graph. This can be then filled in with color in the plot window. Normal lines are not completed, and do not have fill properties.

[Post/BLTplot.html#FlipY FlipY]

This allows the orientation of the y axis to be altered.

[Post/BLTplot.html#setlimits SetLimits]

This allows the minimum and maximum value on a particular axis to be set.

[Post/BLTplot.html#setaxistype SetAxisType]

Set an axis to either log or linear scale.

[Post/examples.html#BltPlot Examples]

Plot commands

All of the following commands plot onto an blt window. The controls on the blt window are the same for all commands. This affords backward compatability to all of the old funcitonality (in most cases!).

• contour

This command allows the user to plot an isoconcentration line of the selected variable. It is usually used with the plot.2d statement.

• plot.1d

This command allows the user to plot the selected variable in one dimensional cross sections through device.

• plot.2d

This command allows the user to plot the outline and/or grid lines in the two dimensional mesh. It is very useful for setting up the display for the contours.

• Post/examples.html#XGraph Examples

[Post/examples.html Examples ]