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Schematic editor: how to change the color of the annotations?

dontpanic

Hi! I would like to change the color of the text used for the simulation annotations in the schematic views. For instance, the color of the voltages printed at each node when using "Results->Annotate->DC node voltages". 

In the symbol view these labels are specified as "IILLabel" objects, with value "cdsTerm("pin_name")". Where can I change the color used to display these strings? Is it a layer in my display.drf? (if so, how can I determine which? my PDK has thousands of layers!). Or is it maybe a setting in ~/.Xdefaults?

Thanks and regards, Jorge.

  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Jorge,

    When in the symbol editor, select the label and type:

    car(geGetSelSet())~>lpp

    This will tell you the layer-purpose it is on. For the cdsParam labels it is probably annotate/drawing; for the cdsTerm labels, it's probably annotate/drawing8; for the cdsName labels it's probably annotate/drawing7.

    Then in the Display Resource Editor, pick the technology library for your design, find these layer purpose pairs, and see the packets used - you can either change it in the DRE, or you can edit the display.drf yourself for those packet names.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • dontpanic
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Yup, that was it! Once again, thank you so much, Andrew!!!

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