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First Encounter pin placement/layer

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Hi there,

can anyone tell me how to make Encounter place pins on restricted layers, for example on metals 1 & 2 only. Ultimately i'd like my pins placed on a given boundary edge & in a pre-determined order.

Thanks

Stu

p.s I'm actually an alaog layout guy using Encounter (for the first time) to place and route a large digital block in an analog chip. Apologies for the simple Q's, there will be more.


Originally posted in cdnusers.org by sreilly
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  • Hi Stu,

    Welcome to the forums!

    You may want to use First Encounter's Pin Editor (Edit->Pin Editor) to accomplish this task. It allows you to preassign pins on certain layers, in user-defined order, and on certain sides.

    If you're looking for more of a way to constrain the location of pins which automatic pin placement will honor, there are constructs available for that as well (pin groups, pin guides, pin constraints, etc).

    Maybe you could have a look at the Pin Editor and post back if that was the kind of thing you were looking for and we can go from there.

    Hope this helps,
    Bob


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by BobD
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  • Hi Stu,

    Welcome to the forums!

    You may want to use First Encounter's Pin Editor (Edit->Pin Editor) to accomplish this task. It allows you to preassign pins on certain layers, in user-defined order, and on certain sides.

    If you're looking for more of a way to constrain the location of pins which automatic pin placement will honor, there are constructs available for that as well (pin groups, pin guides, pin constraints, etc).

    Maybe you could have a look at the Pin Editor and post back if that was the kind of thing you were looking for and we can go from there.

    Hope this helps,
    Bob


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by BobD
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