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Square pins on symbols in verilogin

CSCNalu

Hi

Really dumb and nit picky question - is there a way to make the symbols generated by verilogin use square pins rather than the longer rectangular pins?  I can't seem to find an option.  I'm using Virtuoso 6.1.8-64b.500.17

Thanks

Chris

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Chris,

    There isn't really a good way of doing this. There are a couple of similar CCRs asking for control over the pin shapes: 1026561 and 2455663 which seem fairly similar to me (they probably should be duplicates) and one suggestion from those is to use the Text to Symbol Generator Files field on the Advanced Schematic Generation Options section of the Schematic Generation Options tab. However, that's not great, because it needs a full TSG file (not a template) which completely describes all the pins you want. There is also an enhancement change request, 1172793 asking for TSG templates (the same templates used in Create->CellView from CellView in the schematic editor), but that hasn't been implemented. Maybe a duplicate request would be worthwhile.

    I did find that a colleague had written an article: ihdl: How to use my custom Text to Symbol Generator (TSG) template file for symbol creation during import but I couldn't get it to work properly in practice (I'm feeding it back to him to see if he can improve it). I started modifying the code, but decided that I'd probably end up having to rewrite it to make it robust enough, and ran out of time to do that - sorry!

    Andrew

  • CSCNalu
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew

    Thanks - this is really not an important issue it's just me being nitpicky about how our mixed signal schematics look with the chunky pins.  Honestly if it isn't a simple option I'm missing it's really not worthwhile to spend a bunch of time on this immediately.  That being said the TSG template file is pretty interesting and might be worthwhile for some of our digital imports so I'll check that out.

    Thank you again

    Chris

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  • CSCNalu
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew

    Thanks - this is really not an important issue it's just me being nitpicky about how our mixed signal schematics look with the chunky pins.  Honestly if it isn't a simple option I'm missing it's really not worthwhile to spend a bunch of time on this immediately.  That being said the TSG template file is pretty interesting and might be worthwhile for some of our digital imports so I'll check that out.

    Thank you again

    Chris

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