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Hierarchy copy design questions (different view names)

greatqs

Hi,

I'd like to do the hierarchy copy to a self-contained library. How should I do? I'm okay to use SKILL or GUI operation. Thanks!

The design has different libraries across the hierarchy which can be described as below:

- schematic, layout can be from different libraries

- layout, symbol view name can be something different from default and has no known naming rules (e.g. symbol_left, symbol_right, layout_left, layout_right ...)

I'm not sure whether "Hierarchy copy" + "Exact hierarchy" + "Extra views" in Library manager can do this but the problem is I don't know all the non-default view names of layout or symbol (e.g. layout_left, symbol_small ...)

schematic hierarchy example:

LibA / cellA / schematic

                -> LibA / cellAAA / symbol_left

                -> LibB / cellBBB / symbol_right

                -> LibC / cellCCC / symbol

layout hierarchy example:

LibA / cellA / layout

               -> LibA / cellAAA / layout_left

               -> LibB / cellBBB / layout_right

               -> LibC / cellCCC / layout

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  • Andrew Beckett

    The simplest would be to use Copy Hierarchy, don't check "Exact Hierarchy", have "Copy All Views" checked, and make sure that the libraries you want to include in the copy are not in the "Skip Libraries" list.

    Exact Hierarchy isn't so good for schematic hierarchies because you don't have the schematic view instantiated in the parent schematic; you have a symbol view and then you need to view switch which the copy doesn't do. You'd have to specify all the schematic* views (layout* views would be OK if they were instantiated directly in the hierarchy) in the extra views - so that's a bit of a pain. If it copies all the views, then it copies all views and their descendants in the copy operation.

    This is reasonably well documented if you hit the Help button on the Copy form...

    Probably simplest to try it out and see what you get!

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    The simplest would be to use Copy Hierarchy, don't check "Exact Hierarchy", have "Copy All Views" checked, and make sure that the libraries you want to include in the copy are not in the "Skip Libraries" list.

    Exact Hierarchy isn't so good for schematic hierarchies because you don't have the schematic view instantiated in the parent schematic; you have a symbol view and then you need to view switch which the copy doesn't do. You'd have to specify all the schematic* views (layout* views would be OK if they were instantiated directly in the hierarchy) in the extra views - so that's a bit of a pain. If it copies all the views, then it copies all views and their descendants in the copy operation.

    This is reasonably well documented if you hit the Help button on the Copy form...

    Probably simplest to try it out and see what you get!

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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