Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Form Descriptions

Show Label Form

Labels of specifies which attached labels the checker looks for and highlights in the design window when you click on Apply.

When you click on Apply, the system draws highlighted lines between the specified labels and their associated objects. The system displays a flashing box around any wire labels that are not attached to a wire segment. The form stays open so you can perform other check operations.

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Show Views Found Form

View Name(s) shows all the views bound to all the instances in the current schematic cellview.

Highlight Layers shows the colors used to highlight the instances with the corresponding views. The command graphically shows the current view being used for each instance.

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Stretch Form – Schematic Editor

Snap Mode specifies the angles along which you can stretch objects in the cellview.

anyAngle (default) lets you stretch along any angle from the current location.

diagonal restricts the movement of stretched objects to points that are along 45-degree,

90-degree, and 180-degree angles from the current location.

orthogonal restricts the stretching of objects to points along the X and Y axes from the current location.

Route Method controls how the schematic editor routes wires when you stretch an object.

full (default) draws complex lines and generates additional segments, when necessary, to complete the connection. When the editor cannot complete the connection, rubberband lines remain in the schematic to indicate the intended connectivity.

direct draws a direct line between two given points.

flight draws a dashed line between two given points.

simple restricts the movement of objects and the drawing of associated lines to points along the X and Y axes from the current location.

Route Wire Segments Connected To specifies whether the editor stretches and reroutes the unselected wires that are connected to a specified object type. When you do not enable back tracing for an object type, the editor stretches and reroutes only the first wire segment that is connected to the object you want to stretch. You can reroute wire segments connected to the following object types:

■Instance

■Pin

■Wire

When you turn on an option for an object type, the schematic editor stretches and reroutes all the connected wire segments from the selected object only back to the point where

■The wire reaches a solder dot

■The wire reaches a pin

■The wire reaches a wire of a different width

■The wire reaches another selected wire

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Rotate turns an object in 90-degree increments counterclockwise around the current reference point.

Sideways mirrors the object across an imaginary vertical line passing through the current reference point.

Upside Down mirrors the object across an imaginary horizontal line passing through the current reference point