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Layout Editor: Pin Visibility for Sub-Levels

sgcad

I'm using Virtuoso 6.1.8. and wonder if there's a way to alter the layout editor behavior as follows: Currently, if I press ctrl-f, only the instance drawing layer (showing the instance outlines) and pins/labels of the topmost hierarchy level are visible. To quickly locate pins/labels of placed instances, it would be very useful that also pins/labels of lower hierarchy levels were visible (in fact preferably only the single next level).

Is there a way to set such a behavior? So far I didn't find any suitable option.

Thank you for your help!

  • Andrew Beckett

    This is what Options->Display->Instance Pins does (well, it does it for pins - you have control whether instance pin names are shown too). You don't have the option (I believe) to show labels from one level down.

    Andrew

  • sgcad
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Excellent, thanks. Just for the records:

    graphic drawInstancePins boolean t

    in the .cdsenv sets this as default.

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to sgcad
    sgcad said:
    graphic drawInstancePins boolean t

    Actually, it should be:

    layout drawInstancePins boolean t

    There is also the graphic tool setting, but the layout setting is more specific (in fact the default for the graphic variable is t anyway, but the default for layout is nil).

    Andrew

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