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Get Hierarchy Editor to bind schematic and symbol views

TempViator

Hi,

I am looking for a way to get the Hierarchy Tool to allow me to swap in a schematic with a different number of pins than the original schematic, e.g., a cell with views 'schematic', 'symbol' that have 10 pins and 'schematic_fixed', 'symbol_fixed' that have 11 pins. The cell above it in the hierarchy would then of course also have a 'schematic_fixed' view that used the extra pin or tied it off.

This would seem to need the Hierarchy Editor to know to use 'symbol_fixed' when the hierarchy calls for view 'schematic_fixed'...but I have not been able to make that work.

I there a way to do this?

Thanks!

  • Andrew Beckett

    Surely the level above would have both a schematic view which instantiated the symbol view and a schematic_fixed view which instantiated the symbol_fixed view? If you do this, the hierarchy editor will work fine (although of course the config using the higher level schematic_fixed view would need to switch the instance to use the lower level schematic_fixed view too for the pins to all be consistent). There's no need to do view switching at the symbol level (you can't anyway, what is instantiated in a schematic is already bound - you can only influence what happens when it view switches).

    Andrew.

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