Virtuoso XL Layout Editor User Guide

Checking Design Data in the Virtuoso XL Layout Editor

If a device parameter in the layout is different from the corresponding parameter in the schematic, a text window appears and lists the device names and properties (unless the device is ignored).

2.To save the information in an ASCII file or close the window, use the commands on the File menu in the Virtuoso XL Info window.

Information About Online Forms

Probe Options Form

Object Filter specifies the objects highlighted by the probe command.

Pins specifies that the probe command highlights pins.

Nets specifies that the probe command highlights nets.

Devices specifies that the probe command highlights devices.

Display Layer shows which of the hilite drawing # layers is to be used in the next probe drawn.

Virtuoso XL Layout Editor User Guide

Checking Design Data in the Virtuoso XL Layout Editor

Cycle, when turned on, changes the hilite layer to the next color when a new object is probed. When Cycle is not turned on, the hilite layer does not change to the next color each time a new object is probed.

Send Messages to CIW, when turned on, sends the information about the objects probed to the CIW (as well as displaying it in the box at the bottom of the form, when the form is open).

Create Net Class displays the Create/Edit Net Classes form, which allows you to group nets into classes, so that you can probe nets in groups relevant to your design.

Show displays in the list box the names of the nets, pins, net classes, or devices in the design (depending on which category you select in the cyclic field). When you click on one or more items in the list box, the items are probed (highlighted) in the schematic and in the layout and the name, window, and equivalency information about each item is shown in the display box. When you remove a probe, that information disappears from the display box.

Zoom to the bounding box of the current probing objects based on the probe type.