If you've developed AXI machinery in Vivado, you're likely familiar with this:





This screenshot from Xilinx's built-in simulator (xsim) shows two AXI4-Lite writes followed by a single read. It's functional but, for designs of any complexity, it's tough to keep track of both the forest (the high-level behaviour you're presumably debugging) and the trees (the nitty-gritty associated with each AXI transaction).

Sometimes I use markers and signal colors to make navigation easier, but these are throwaway techniques that aren't useful for more than a single simulator session at a time.

I often wish for some easily available visual cues that support moving around the simulation without losing focus on the problem I'm trying to solve.