Product Documentation
Virtuoso Design Planning and Analysis User Guide
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023

Generate Selected Components Form

Use the Generate Selected Components form to generate a virtual hierarchy for the selected schematic instances and to create soft blocks for schematic symbols that have no schematic or virtual hierarchy. For the virtual hierarchy generation options to be available on the Generate Selected Components form, you must have the Virtuoso Layout Suite EXL license checked out.

The following table describes the fields on the Generate Selected Components form that support virtual hierarchy generation. For information on other layout generation options provided on the form, see Generate Selected Components.

Field Description

Design Planning

Specifies whether a virtual hierarchy is generated.

Virtual Hierarchy

Lets you generate a virtual hierarchy for the selected schematic instances.

If you open the Generate Selected Components form using the Plan menu or the Design Planning toolbar, the Virtual Hierarchy option is automatically set to ON.

If you open the form using the Connectivity – Generate Selected From Source menu, the Virtual Hierarchy option is automatically set to OFF.

Related Topics

Selected Component Generation in DPA

lxHiGenerateSelectedVirtualHierarchy

Generating Components As In Schematic


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