Virtuoso XL Layout Editor User Guide

Setting Up Your Virtuoso XL Layout Editor Environment

Setting Up Your Desktop

After you start Virtuoso XL, you see “Virtuoso® XL Layout...” in the banner above the layout window (on the right) and you see a schematic window (on the left) that corresponds to the layout window. This is the default configuration.

Schematic view

Layout view

LSW

CIW

You can move, resize, and iconify the Command Interpreter Window (CIW), schematic window, Layer Selection Window (LSW), and layout window to suit your needs.

Customizing Your Desktop Layout

You can save and reuse your window environment the way you have customized it by

■Using the CIW Options – Save Defaults command.

■Adding the appropriate environment variables to your .cdsenv file, as in the example below.

When you use the CIW Options – Save Defaults command to save the size and position of the schematic and layout windows as you have customized them, Virtuoso XL saves this