Virtuoso Studio: Layout Editor Productivity Enhancements Blog Series

Our new AI-powered custom design solution, Virtuoso Studio, leverages our 30 years of industry knowledge and leadership, providing innovative features, reimagined infrastructure for unrivaled productivity, and new levels of integration that stretch beyond classic design boundaries. In this blog series, learn how the best analog design tools just got better to help you keep pace with your challenging design issues.

In the complex world of custom IC layout, every click and keystroke can impact productivity. Recognizing this, Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 introduced a suite of powerful productivity enhancements tailored for layout editors. These updates are designed to streamline your workflow, reduce manual effort, and accelerate your path to design closure by making routine tasks faster and more intuitive.

This blog series will explore how the latest release, IC25.1, enhances our best-in-class analog design tools to help you meet your most challenging design goals.

This multi-part blog series will introduce you to some significant productivity enhancements. Each post will spotlight a new capability crafted to accelerate your design cycle, including:

• Creating and editing group arrays interactively: A new on-canvas, interactive approach to creating and editing arrays of objects to significantly boost efficiency.
• Leveraging context-aware dynamic bindkeys: A powerful update where the function of a bindkey can be changed based on the active command or context.
• Accelerating property assignment with predefined lists: A new drop-down list of common, predefined properties in the Edit Properties form to reduce repetitive typing. You can also search the properties by their name.
• Ensuring perfect alignment with intelligent guides: Dynamic, intelligent snapping lines that you can drop directly onto the canvas, allowing objects to intuitively snap for pixel-perfect placement.

While each feature offers specific advantages, their collective impact elevates the entire layout design experience. You can expect to see accelerated productivity, fewer errors, and improved design quality and consistency.

In upcoming posts, we will explore these enhancements in detail, helping you leverage these tools to their full potential. Upgrade to Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 today to experience a more productive Virtuoso Studio environment.

Related Resources

Product Manual	Group Arrays Modifying Mid Command Bindkeys Using Command Hint Window Creating a Guide
Video	Group Array - Editing enhancements Part 1 Group Array - Editing enhancements Part 2 Dynamic Bindkeys (Virtuoso XL)
RAK	Predefined properties in Virtuoso Layout Suite Edit Object Properties form

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Happy Reading!

Rohini Garg