Top Cell

Contains the library, cell, and view names of the top cellview of the configuration you opened. This is the root cellview of your design.

Library

Displays library name of the top cellview of the configuration

Cell

Displays cell name of the top cellview of the configuration.

View

Displays view name of the top cellview of the configuration.

Opens

Opens the top cellview in an editor. If the top cellview is a schematic, it is opened in the Virtuoso^® schematic editor; if it is a Verilog or VHDL view, it is opened in a text editor.

Edit

Opens the Edit Top Cell form where you can select alternative Library, Cell, and View selections for the Top Cell from drop-down menus.

ADE L

Opens the ADE L window.

ADE Explorer

Opens an existing ADE Explorer view or creates a new ADE Explorer view.

• When opening an existing ADE Explorer view, the simulator is the same as previously set in the cellview.
• When creating a new ADE Explorer view, the simulator is set to ams by default.

Global Bindings

Contains the global library, view, and stop lists. These are the default values for the entire configuration.

Selecting the browse (...) button for a specific Global Bindings list option displays a view list building form that allows you to build up a view list without the need to manually type in the libraries, views, and so on.

Library List

Displays the list of libraries, specified in order of preference, that are searched for cells. Each cell is obtained from the first library in the list that contains a cell of that name.

View List

Displays the list of views, specified in order of preference, for cells. For each cell, the first view in the list that is found is used. For example, if the view list is tbench_1 schematic dataflow, the netlister first looks for a tbench_1 view. If it is not found, it looks for a schematic view. If that is not found either, it looks for a dataflow view.

Stop List

Displays the list of views used to determine when the hierarchy expansion stops and when a cell should be considered a leaf node in the hierarchy.

Constraint List

Displays the list of constraint views, listed in order of preference. The first view that is found is used. If none of the constraint views in the list are found, the schematic editor creates an empty view named after the first view in the constraint list.

Table View

Displays all the cells of your design in a table format.

Tree View

Displays the hierarchy of your design. It displays the top cellview and all the instances contained in it.