Virtuosity: Can You Build Lego Masterpieces with All Blocks of One Size?

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Most of us have memories of building masterpieces with Lego blocks. Imagine if all the blocks were of the same size. Would you have been able to build your masterpieces as creatively? You surely need blocks of different sizes and styles to build great Lego structures. So, are your advanced node designs any different? Not at all! A complex WSP-based design requires stitching together routing regions with multiple patterns that follow different WSSPDef periods.

Creating Regions with Different WSSPDef Periods

If you haven't already noticed, you can use the Create Regions form to create regions that have different WSSPDef periods. In most cases, you can draw local regions using the pointer snapping to WSP period points. Alternatively, the local regions can be guided by existing boundary type shapes, filling row regions, some other identification layer, or X/Y coordinates with width and height specifications.

To meet your design needs, you can also customize where local regions snap to, on creation. To achieve this, select specific WSSPDefs and specify a multiplier with the period to snap the placement of the WSP local region to the desired grid. This lets you create WSP local regions to guide your design tracks in the type of configuration you want for your masterpiece.

In the block diagram and video below, you can see that you can create local regions with different WSSPDef periods and customize the grid to which the local regions snap to.

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Related Resources

User Guide

Virtuoso Width Spacing Patterns User Guide

Working with the Track Pattern Assistant

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