Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Form Descriptions

Add Symbol Shape Form – Rectangle

Shape specifies a shape you can add to your design. The Add Symbol Shape form expands and contracts depending on which Shape option you select.

Fill Style determines whether the rectangle is filled or not.

outline draws just the border.

filled fills in the specified shape.

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Add Wire Form

Draw Mode specifies the wire entry method.

route (default) creates a route between two points.

draws a straight line in any angle between two points.

begins an L90 shape with a horizontal line segment and alternates between horizontal and vertical.

begins an L90 shape with a vertical line segment and alternates between vertical and horizontal.

draws either a horizontal or vertical line segment first, then a 45-degree angle.

draws a 45-degree angle first, then either a horizontal or vertical line segment.

Route Method specifies how the system routes wires. This option appears when you set

Draw Mode to route.

full draws complex lines consisting of right angles and up to three segments to complete the connection wire.

direct draws a straight line between two points.

flight draws a dashed, straight line between two points.

any (default) lets you drag your cursor along any angle.

45 limits cursor movement to 45-degree angles.

Width specifies the wire width in user units. The default values are 0 (zero) for a narrow wire and 0.0625 for a wide wire.

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Add Wire Name Form

Names specifies one or more names for wires. You can specify multiple names by separating each name with a space. You can also use a bus expression to name an array of wire names.

Font Height specifies the size of your wire name text as a floating-point value, in user units.

The default is 0.625.

Font Style specifies the typeface the system uses to display the wire name.

Justification specifies the position of the cursor with respect to the wire name.

Entry Style specifies the mechanism for placing the name with the wire.

fixed offset automatically positions the wire name at a specified distance from the wire.

manual requires you to place the wire name at a grid location on or near the wire.

Bus Expansion specifies how the system interprets bus names.

off (default) interprets the bus name as a single name and generates a single name that includes all the bits in the bus range. For example, for the name A<0:1>, the system generates only the name A<0:1>.

on interprets the bus name as multiple names and generates a name for each bit of a bus range that you specify in the Names field. For example, for the nameA<0:1>, the system generates names A<0> and A<1>.

Placement controls whether you can place multiple wire names automatically in one operation.

single (default) requires you to point and click to identify each wire name location.

multiple lets you drag your mouse between two points to designate the wires that you want the system to name automatically.

Purpose defines the purpose of the wire name.

label assigns the wire name to the corresponding wire.

alias defines the wire name as an alternative name (usually shorter or more descriptive) for the wire.

Show Offset Defaults expands the form so you can change the fixed offset values that the system uses for placing wire names on horizontal or vertical wires.

Text Offset specifies the distance between a wire name and a wire.

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Text Position specifies the location of a wire name in relation to the wire.

Text Rotation specifies the orientation of a wire name in relation to the wire.

Hide Offset Defaults collapses the form to hide the offset defaults.

Rotate turns the wire name in 90-degree increments counterclockwise around the reference point when Entry Style is set to manual.