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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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  • Andrew Beckett

    I finally got to replying to this - and was about to suggest the autoHilight switch, which you've found.

    For the bindkey, the only thing I can imagine is that the F7 bindkey has been superseded by something else - can you check the bindkey is still valid? I'm not sure otherwise why it wouldn't be possible to set a bindkey on F7 unless maybe there's something in your window manager which is using F7 and preventing it getting through to the application itself. Try replacing the F7 bindkey with something simple (like println(1234)) and see if that works. Try using "xev" in UNIX to see if the F7 bindkey presses are making it through to X windows.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    I finally got to replying to this - and was about to suggest the autoHilight switch, which you've found.

    For the bindkey, the only thing I can imagine is that the F7 bindkey has been superseded by something else - can you check the bindkey is still valid? I'm not sure otherwise why it wouldn't be possible to set a bindkey on F7 unless maybe there's something in your window manager which is using F7 and preventing it getting through to the application itself. Try replacing the F7 bindkey with something simple (like println(1234)) and see if that works. Try using "xev" in UNIX to see if the F7 bindkey presses are making it through to X windows.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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