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Allegro - Tip of the Week: Do you know that you can have your design autosaved at regular intervals?

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You can set the autosave feature in your design, which helps in saving your work periodically. The key variables to autosave the database are present under the File_management section in User Preferences Editor. You can open this using Setup > User Preferences.

  • autosave: Set to enable autosaving

            This option must be set before starting the layout editor.

  • autosave_dbcheck: Set to run a quick database check before an autosave

            By default, this option is turned off to save time. It requires a restart.

  • autosave name: Specifies the base name for the autosave file

           The default name is AUTOSAVE. Do NOT provide a file extension. The layout editor will use the appropriate extension based on the type of database under edit. It requires a restart.

  • autosave time: Specifies the autosave intervals

            The default time is 30 minutes. The minimum is 10 minutes, and the maximum is 300 minutes. It requires a restart.

 

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  • There are 2 challenges here

    1. The minimum save time is 10min and in many cases it may not be sufficient. Are there any future updates planned to reduce the minimum save time ?

    2. As the other user mentioned there should be an option where the user can define the path where to save the files.

    FYI: Other popular EDA tool has both above mentioned features. 

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  • There are 2 challenges here

    1. The minimum save time is 10min and in many cases it may not be sufficient. Are there any future updates planned to reduce the minimum save time ?

    2. As the other user mentioned there should be an option where the user can define the path where to save the files.

    FYI: Other popular EDA tool has both above mentioned features. 

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