Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Traversing the Design Hierarchy and Creating a Design Configuration View

Your changes are propagated through subordinate instances in the hierarchy editor and are saved in both the configured schematic and in the hierarchy editor configuration view.

Showing Views Found

In the previous section, you either set the instance binding or built a new inherited view list.

This command graphically shows the current view being used for each instance. To show views used by the instance, do the following:

1.Choose Hierarchy-Editor – Show Views Found.

The Show Views Found form appears.

The View Name(s) option shows all the views bound to all the instances in the current schematic cellview. The Highlight Layers option shows the colors used to highlight the instances with the corresponding views. The command graphically shows the current view being used for each instance.

2.(Optional) Change the highlight layer for each view name.

3.Click Apply.

The schematic display is updated with the appropriate highlight color showing the views used by all the instances.

Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Traversing the Design Hierarchy and Creating a Design Configuration View