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About Design Attributes

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archive over 18 years ago

What difference about the design's attibutes:compdefs and components, symdefs and symbols?
I know the difference of component and symbol.
Why the compdefs and symdefs is not the same thing?

compdefs                         List of component definitions
components                     List of components
symbols                           List of symbol instances
symdefs                           List of symbol defs

Does anybody tell me more about the difference? thanks!


Originally posted in cdnusers.org by leonlee
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    archive over 18 years ago

    A compdef object is a component -definition- from which component objects are derived from.
    Thinking in OO terms, a compdef object is a class while components are instances of that class.

    Ditto for symdef objects and symbol objects.


    HTH,

    Chris Walters
    local Cadence guru
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    PS - Anyone know of anyoe needing a(nother) Cadence guru?


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by kerchunk
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