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Virtuoso XL 6.1.5.500.9 opens physConfig along with schematic

LongTimeNovice

Hi.  When I open a layout in XL and tell it that my connectivity reference is a particular schematic, it opens up that cell's schematic along with its physConfig view.  This view doesn't always match the non-XL schematic when no physConfig is loaded with it.  When we make changes to the schematic view, they don't always (maybe never) carry over into the physConfig.

 Why does  it do this?  Is there a way to force XL to open the schematic with no physConfig view, or is it possible to always have the physConfig view match the schematic?

 Thank you!

Steve.

 

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    Hi, Andrew.  Thanks for the response.

     When I say non-XL schematic, I mean a schematic that is opened up Virtuso Schematic Editor L without being linked to Virtuoso Layout Suite XL.  No connectivity, just a schematic opened for viewing.  When I do that, the title bar says

    "Virtuoso Schematic Editor L Reading: [library name] [cell name] schematic Version:[#]-Checkedin".

      When I open Virtuoso XL and attach a schematic to it, the title bar says

    "Virtuoso Schematic Editor L Reading: [library name] [cell_name] schematic  Config:[library name] [cell name] physConfig Version:[#]-Checkedin".

     

    So XL opens up a schematic with physConfig while a plain schematic without XL connectivity just opens up a schematic.  My problem is that sometimes, particularly after a circuit designer (I'm layout) makes an edit in a schematic, and after I do a library update, I can see the edit if I open the schematic by itself without XL, but when I use XL, the schematic/physConfig view does not show the edit.  Shouldn't the two match?  Since the XL layout is linked to the physConfig,  it's a problem when I'm not seeing the most recent changes in that view.  How can we do things differently such that I can see schematic edits whether or not I have VIrtuoso XL connectivity?

    Thanks.
    Steve.

     

     

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    Hi, Andrew.  Thanks for the response.

     When I say non-XL schematic, I mean a schematic that is opened up Virtuso Schematic Editor L without being linked to Virtuoso Layout Suite XL.  No connectivity, just a schematic opened for viewing.  When I do that, the title bar says

    "Virtuoso Schematic Editor L Reading: [library name] [cell name] schematic Version:[#]-Checkedin".

      When I open Virtuoso XL and attach a schematic to it, the title bar says

    "Virtuoso Schematic Editor L Reading: [library name] [cell_name] schematic  Config:[library name] [cell name] physConfig Version:[#]-Checkedin".

     

    So XL opens up a schematic with physConfig while a plain schematic without XL connectivity just opens up a schematic.  My problem is that sometimes, particularly after a circuit designer (I'm layout) makes an edit in a schematic, and after I do a library update, I can see the edit if I open the schematic by itself without XL, but when I use XL, the schematic/physConfig view does not show the edit.  Shouldn't the two match?  Since the XL layout is linked to the physConfig,  it's a problem when I'm not seeing the most recent changes in that view.  How can we do things differently such that I can see schematic edits whether or not I have VIrtuoso XL connectivity?

    Thanks.
    Steve.

     

     

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