Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Automatically Creating Cellviews

Editing Symbol Generation Options

The Symbol Generation Options form displays the property and attribute settings that the text-to-symbol generator (TSG) uses to generate symbols. The software loads the default form settings from a template file, which you specify using thetsgTemplateType environment variable.

This section discusses the following tasks:

■Adding, Changing, and Reordering Pin Names on page 278

■Editing Pin Attributes on page 280

■Loading and Saving a TSG Template File on page 282

■Editing Symbol Attributes on page 285

■Editing Symbol Labels on page 286

■Creating a New Label on page 289

■Deleting Labels on page 291

■Modifying Label Attributes on page 293

■Editing Properties on page 296

■Creating a New Property on page 297

■Deleting Properties on page 299

■Modifying Property Attributes on page 301

Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Automatically Creating Cellviews

Adding, Changing, and Reordering Pin Names

To add, change, or reorder pin names, do the following:

1.Choose either Design – Create Cellview – From Cellview or Design – Create

Cellview – From Pin List.

The Cellview From Cellview form appears.

2.Turn on Edit Options.

3.Click OK.

If the symbol you are creating already exists, you must replace it to get the Symbol

Generation Options form.

The Symbol Generation Options form appears.

Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Automatically Creating Cellviews

By default, the software initializes the form with information from the current cellview and the Cellview From Cellview form.

4.To space pins further apart, add one or more asterisk ( * ) in the Left Pins, Right Pins,

Top Pins, and Bottom Pins fields.

5. Click OK.

Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Automatically Creating Cellviews

This setting results in the following:

INPUTA OUTPUTA

INPUTB

INPUTC OUTPUTB

Editing Pin Attributes

To edit the attributes of a pin, do the following:

1.Choose either Design – Create Cellview – From Cellview or Design – Create

Cellview – From Pin List.

The Cellview From Cellview form appears.

2.Turn on Edit Options.

3.Click OK.

If the symbol you are creating already exists, you must replace it to get the Symbol

Generation Options form.

Virtuoso Schematic Composer User Guide

Automatically Creating Cellviews

The Symbol Generation Options form appears.

By default, the software initializes the form with information from the current cellview and the Cellview From Cellview form.

4.Select List from one of the Attributes cyclic fields. The pin attributes form appears.

left pin attributes

The banner title on the form indicates left, right, top, or bottom pin attributes.