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Virtuoso: Comment Out

itos

I have no hope this is possible but after years of struggle I still try it: Is it somehow possible to comment out parts of the schematic (such that marked parts still exist in the schematic and can later be uncommented but are not transfered to the netlist).


This would be THE SINGLE MOST USEFUL Virtuoso could implement.

It's such a pain to delete whole parts of schematics just to try something out and afterwards manually reinserting stuff again. If I'm the first person asking for this I am wondering how IC design people work. Even the first Fortran on punch cards had comments.

The same used to be true for Simulink - the latest releases are a huge relief when they FINALLY introduced "Comment out" and "Comment through".

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  • itos

    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks again for this reply. Unfortunately I have to go back to IC6.1.6-64b0500.11 now and hence use solution 11523164. Unfortunately it does not work; I do not see any visual representation, SHIFT+F7 does not work and I do get warnings.

    What I did: I downloaded .ils file and added the following to the end of my .cdsinit:

    load("CCSignoreInstance.ils")
    hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "<Key>F7" "CCSignoreInstance->ignoreSelected()")
    hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "Shift<Key>F7" "CCSignoreInstance->unignoreSelected()")

    1.) When I mark an element in Schematic Editor L and hit F7, indeed the item gets nlAction=ignore property. However, visually nothing changes.

    2.) If I hit SHIFT+F7, nothing happens (i.e., the nlAction=ignore) does not get removed. If I change the key binding for CCSignoreInstance->unignoreSelected() with hiSetBindKey to F6 it works. So it seems either I am hitting SHIFT+F7 the wrong way or it just does not work?

    3.) When I manually enter CCSignoreInstance->updateAllWindows() in the CIW I get:

    CCSignoreInstance->updateAllWindows()
    *WARNING* (GE-2067): geGetEditCellView: There is no graphical edit environment assigned to window(1) because the window is not a graphic editor window.
    Make sure that your current window is a valid graphic editor window.
    If it is a valid graph editor window, contact customer service to investigate this issue.
    t

    Not sure it this has anything to do with it. But in my understanding (and hope), all commented elements should have a big red cross above them.


    Am I doing anything wrong?


    Thank you!

    EDIT: Ok, I also need to add CCSignoreInstance->setOption('autoHilight t) to .cdsinit; this fixes (1). However would be happy for a fix on (2) still ...

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  • itos

    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks again for this reply. Unfortunately I have to go back to IC6.1.6-64b0500.11 now and hence use solution 11523164. Unfortunately it does not work; I do not see any visual representation, SHIFT+F7 does not work and I do get warnings.

    What I did: I downloaded .ils file and added the following to the end of my .cdsinit:

    load("CCSignoreInstance.ils")
    hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "<Key>F7" "CCSignoreInstance->ignoreSelected()")
    hiSetBindKey("Schematics" "Shift<Key>F7" "CCSignoreInstance->unignoreSelected()")

    1.) When I mark an element in Schematic Editor L and hit F7, indeed the item gets nlAction=ignore property. However, visually nothing changes.

    2.) If I hit SHIFT+F7, nothing happens (i.e., the nlAction=ignore) does not get removed. If I change the key binding for CCSignoreInstance->unignoreSelected() with hiSetBindKey to F6 it works. So it seems either I am hitting SHIFT+F7 the wrong way or it just does not work?

    3.) When I manually enter CCSignoreInstance->updateAllWindows() in the CIW I get:

    CCSignoreInstance->updateAllWindows()
    *WARNING* (GE-2067): geGetEditCellView: There is no graphical edit environment assigned to window(1) because the window is not a graphic editor window.
    Make sure that your current window is a valid graphic editor window.
    If it is a valid graph editor window, contact customer service to investigate this issue.
    t

    Not sure it this has anything to do with it. But in my understanding (and hope), all commented elements should have a big red cross above them.


    Am I doing anything wrong?


    Thank you!

    EDIT: Ok, I also need to add CCSignoreInstance->setOption('autoHilight t) to .cdsinit; this fixes (1). However would be happy for a fix on (2) still ...

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