What's Good About DEHDL’s Variant Editor? 16.6 Has Several New Enhancements!

The recent 16.6 QISR-2 for Allegro Design Entry HDL has new capabilities for the Variant Editor.

Read on for more details…

Dynamic Viewing of Variants in the Schematic Editor

A new toolbar and menus have been added for viewing variants:



All available variants for a design are listed. It’s easy to switch between any of the variants as well as base views. Selecting a variant will lead to the annotation of variant-specific information on schematic sheets:

• Properties
• Do not install
  • Option to cross out

Custom Data Included

A complete hierarchical schematic now includes occurrence-specific data and cross-referencer data. The plotting / PDF publishing of any of the variants contains the complete data.

User-defined properties / custom text can be assigned to variant-specific data in the Variant Editor, and the placeholders on the schematics are updated with variant-specific data.

The attributes form displays the variant name in the source column for variant-specific properties:

Schematic Custom Annotations

• Option on DNI components
  • Cross out
  • DNI property
  • All properties visibility

• Color customization
  • Variant-specific component   
  • Variant-specific properties
  • DNI component   
  • DNI cross

When you save a variant in the Variant Editor it generates files specific to each variant containing variant-specific information, and files are used for dynamic display of data in DEHDL schematics. Variant details can be defined at the time of creating a new variant or editing existing variant details:
–    Variant name
–    Variant property name-value to be annotated on schematics
–    DNI property value
–    Variant-specific custom text values





I look forward to your feedback!

Jerry “GenPart” Grzenia