Overview

Pegasus Interactive is an interactive DRC utility available in Virtuoso. It can:

• Directly access OA database and run DRC without data translation
• Refer to Pegasus compiled design rules database, snapshot, without compiling rule deck prior to DRC

Thus, for a quick DRC during layout editing, Pegasus Interactive is more effective than the traditional batch DRC for in design verification solution.

Pegasus Interactive allows you to:

• Edit layout within Virtuoso when Pegasus Interactive is conducting DRC
• Run DRC on either editable or the read-only cellview

Following figure shows the Pegasus Interactive toolbar:

• Pegasus Interactive Verify-Design: DRC operate mode. For detailed description on their usages, see Invoke Design Rule Checking.
• Snapshots: For more details on the usage of this toolbar refer to Manage Snapshots.
• Pegasus Interactive Run Options: For more details on the usage of this toolbar refer to Run Settings for Verify Design
• Pegasus Results Viewer: For more details on the usage of this toolbar refer to Error Viewing.

You can set Pegasus Interactive toolbar availability through Window > Toolbars > Pegasus Interactive. If Pegasus Interactive is not part of Toolbars selection, this is the indication that you did not point to the proper Pegasus installation.

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