Virtuoso XL Layout Editor User Guide

Updating Design Data in Virtuoso XL

List Form/ Update Layout Device List Form/ Update Schematic Device List Form on page 475.

Type the device name and click the Search button.

The device name is highlighted.

5.Double-click on a device name.

The device name appears in the Dev Name field in the Change Instance View form.

6.In the Change Instance View form, click Apply. Virtuoso XL applies the new view name to the device.

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■Change Instance View Form on page 474

■Change Inst View Device List Form/ Update Layout Device List Form/ Update Schematic Device List Form on page 475

■Create Device Correspondence form

Change Instance View Form

Dev Name specifies the name of a device whose layout view you want to change.

Virtuoso XL Layout Editor User Guide

Updating Design Data in Virtuoso XL

common selects multiple devices whose layout view you want to change to a common layout view. When common is selected, clicking on Apply associates the cell view displayed in the cyclic field to all the devices chosen (the number shown at the bottom of the form).

Switch to View Name changes to include the name of the device you select (Switch cell

“res” to View Name) and lets you choose from the cyclic field the cell view to which you want to attach the device. The choices shown in the cyclic field are set by thestopList variable. If no cell view is associated with the device you choose, this field is not shown.

n of n fields displays the order and number of devices you have chosen to attach to a given cell view. You can enter data in these fields.

List Devices shows the devices present in your layout and the view names associated with each.

Change Inst View Device List Form/

Update Layout Device List Form/

Update Schematic Device List Form

The Device List form shows all the devices in the design. Several Virtuoso XL commands use the Device List form.

To select a device or devices on which you want to perform an action, click on the device you want to select, or hold down Control and click to select more than one device.

Search finds and selects the names of devices you specify.

You can type in the field to the right of theSearch button:

■A device name

The Device List form highlights the device and scrolls the list to make the device name visible.

■A part of a device name (“IN,” for example)

The Device List form highlights all the devices with “IN” as an element in the name (IN3,

IN6, IN7, IN12, for example) and scrolls the list to make the first example visible.

■A regular SKILL expression using part of a device name (“*mos,” for example)

The Device List form highlights all devices with the string “*mos”, (nmos, pmos, for example) and scrolls the list to make the first example visible.