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Need to promote pins to one level Above

sathisha
Hi, Is there any way to get the pins to top level by using the below hierarchy cells. Thanks, Sathisha
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  • If you're trying to place pins at a higher level directly over an instance of the lower level, you can do that with the Pin Placer in Virtuoso Layout Suite XL (in IC61X):

    Placing a Pin on a Lower-level Instance Terminal
    To place a pin directly onto its corresponding instance terminal at a lower
    level of the design hierarchy,
    1. From the layout window menu bar, choose Place - Pin Placement. The Pin
    Placement form is displayed.
    2. Select the pin from the pin table.
    3. Choose None from the Edge cyclic field.
    4. Choose Floating from the Location cyclic field.
    5. Click Apply. The pin you selected is placed over its corresponding instance
    terminal in the layout window.

    This requires the pins to exist in your layout - but that would happen provided that you had a schematic wiring them up and had done a "gen from source" in Layout XL.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • If you're trying to place pins at a higher level directly over an instance of the lower level, you can do that with the Pin Placer in Virtuoso Layout Suite XL (in IC61X):

    Placing a Pin on a Lower-level Instance Terminal
    To place a pin directly onto its corresponding instance terminal at a lower
    level of the design hierarchy,
    1. From the layout window menu bar, choose Place - Pin Placement. The Pin
    Placement form is displayed.
    2. Select the pin from the pin table.
    3. Choose None from the Edge cyclic field.
    4. Choose Floating from the Location cyclic field.
    5. Click Apply. The pin you selected is placed over its corresponding instance
    terminal in the layout window.

    This requires the pins to exist in your layout - but that would happen provided that you had a schematic wiring them up and had done a "gen from source" in Layout XL.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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