Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Creating Symbols

3. Choose Window – Fit to view the enlarged symbol, if necessary.

Creating Symbol Cellviews Using Generators

A symbol cellview is a lower cell of a complete schematic cellview.

Besides using the Design – Create Cellview command mentioned in Chapter 6, “Automatically Creating Cellviews,” you can create symbol cellviews using generators.

■Text-to-Symbol Generator on page 595

The text-to-symbol generator (TSG) is a Cadence application program that automatically generates symbol cellviews for schematic capture and subsequent simulation processes. TSG provides a quick way to generate a symbol from a list of pins in a TSG file.

■Symbol and Simulation Library Generator on page 623

The Cadence SKILL-based symbol and simulation library generator

(S/SLG) is a library management program that generates symbol and simulation views.