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Mosaics with non-instance objects (e.g. vias)

patschouly

Hi,

is there a possibility to use the mosaic function or something comparable on non-instance objects, for example vias? What I want to achieve is that I can place an array of an object with a defined number and pitch while editing one of these objects changes all in the array. I use the mosaic feature a lot, but I don't want to create an extra instance for every via I use.

Thanks, kind regards,

Patrick

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Patrick,

    No. Mosaics only work as an array of cells. Since vias have parameters which allow them to effectively be arrays, I'm not sure that would make sense for vias, but for other objects you'd need to create an instance and array that (if you want to keep them arrayed).

    However, one possibility which could (sort of) do what you want is the "Synchronous Copy" feature in Virtuoso Layout Suite XL. With that, you may have a group of shapes or instance of vias and then you can select these and on the copy command form, turn on "Synchronous Copy" and also ask the copy to copy as an array (so you specify the number of rows and columns). What will then happy is that it puts the original shapes into a group (strictly a "figGroup") and then have all the copies as synchronous figGroups. If you edit in place one of them, all the others will change in a synchronised way (unless you tell it you want to edit in place just that individual copy, which breaks the synchronisation).

    Doing this doesn't keep the "arrayness" of the copies - so there's nothing to allow you to alter the numbers of rows and columns or the pitch other than selecting the rows and columns and moving them - but it does keep all the copies synchronised.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Patrick,

    No. Mosaics only work as an array of cells. Since vias have parameters which allow them to effectively be arrays, I'm not sure that would make sense for vias, but for other objects you'd need to create an instance and array that (if you want to keep them arrayed).

    However, one possibility which could (sort of) do what you want is the "Synchronous Copy" feature in Virtuoso Layout Suite XL. With that, you may have a group of shapes or instance of vias and then you can select these and on the copy command form, turn on "Synchronous Copy" and also ask the copy to copy as an array (so you specify the number of rows and columns). What will then happy is that it puts the original shapes into a group (strictly a "figGroup") and then have all the copies as synchronous figGroups. If you edit in place one of them, all the others will change in a synchronised way (unless you tell it you want to edit in place just that individual copy, which breaks the synchronisation).

    Doing this doesn't keep the "arrayness" of the copies - so there's nothing to allow you to alter the numbers of rows and columns or the pitch other than selecting the rows and columns and moving them - but it does keep all the copies synchronised.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • patschouly
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks! The synchronous copy feature helps!

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