Ambit BuildGates Synthesis User Guide
Viewing the Schematic Design
How to Use the Schematic Viewer
You can navigate the schematic viewer with mouse operations, keyboard shortcuts, and by selecting menu options. The schematic viewer must be the active window for the options to be available. To make a window active, click the left mouse inside the window.
Keyboard Shortcuts
The keyboard shortcuts are listed in Table 5-1.
Table 5-1 Keyboard Shortcuts
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CTRL-m in |
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Display the viewer such that it occupies the whole main |
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Repeatedly pressing Control-m toggles between the |
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standard split-screen and the whole-screen display. |
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none |
Normal view mode, Scale of 1. |
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click and drag |
Zoom in to increase magnification. The zoom factor is |
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left mouse |
decreased as you drag the mouse. |
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button (SE) |
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o |
click and drag |
Zoom out to decrease magnification. When using the |
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mouse the zoom factor is incremented as you drag the |
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button (NE) |
mouse. |
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f |
click and drag |
Reduce or increase the design size to fit the window. |
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left mouse |
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button (SW) |
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F |
none |
Display the full design page. This includes the page |
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frame. |
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r |
none |
Redraw the screen. |
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l |
none |
Return to the last view. A stack of 10 designs are |
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maintained so that you can backtrack through the view |
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history. |
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p |
none |
This is the reverse of the backtrack option. It allows you |
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to go forward through views that you previously |
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backtracked. |
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Table 5-1 Keyboard Shortcuts
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Description |
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U |
click and drag |
Navigate up the hierarchy to the parent module and |
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left mouse |
display the parent module in a window. |
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button (NW) |
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Right arrow |
none |
Scrolls right to the view the design. Scrolling is limited |
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by the page size. |
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Left arrow |
none |
Scrolls left to the view of the design. Scrolling is limited |
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by the page size. |
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Up arrow |
none |
Scroll up inside the window. Scrolling is limited by the |
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page size. |
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Down arrow |
none |
Scroll down inside the window. Scrolling is limited by |
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the page size. |
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Page Up |
none |
In multipage schematics, display the previous page. |
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Page Down |
none |
In multipage schematics, display the next page. |
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Mouse Operations
Table 5-2 describes the specific behavior of the mouse in the schematic viewer.
Table 5-2 Mouse Operations
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Double click left |
Operates only on a hierarchical instance to display the upper level |
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Hold and drag left |
Perform 4 functions: ascend a level in your design (U), zoom out (o), |
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zoom in (i), and fit the design to the screen (f). |
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The further the distance that the mouse is dragged up, down, left or |
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right in the window, the greater the effect of the zoom. The zoom |
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factor is incremented as you drag. |
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Using A as a starting point the diagram shows the effect of the mouse |
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[Schematic Viewer] |
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Ascend a Level |
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Zoom out |
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Fullfit |
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Zoom in |
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Click and drag |
Move schematic in any direction. |
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Click right button |
When cursor is in the background of schematic, displays the |
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Commands pop-up menu. When cursor is placed on an object (bus, |
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port, instance, net, pin, or bus port), displays the associated pop-up menu. Refer to “Accessing Context-Sensitive Pop-Up Menus” on page 114 for details.
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