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Design Planning and Analysis

How to Access the Design Planning Commands

Design Planning Workspace

Plan Menu for Design Planning and Analysis

Design Planning Toolbar

2

Design Planning and Analysis Flow

Advantages of Design Planning and Analysis

Layout Component Generation in Design Planning and Analysis

Selected Component Generation in DPA

Virtual Hierarchy Generation

Soft Block Generation in Design Planning and Analysis

Physical Hierarchy Generation

Automatic Physical Hierarchy Generation

Connectivity-Driven Layout Editing Commands Supported by DPA

Virtual Group Creation in Design Planning and Analysis

Virtual Hierarchy Boundary Adjustment

Make Virtual Hierarchy Command in Design Planning and Analysis

Make Cell Command in Design Planning and Analysis

Design Scenarios Not Supported by the Make Cell Command

Remaster Command in Design Planning and Analysis

Placement of a Virtual Hierarchy

Manual Placement

Automatic Placement

Congestion Analysis and Global Routing Support in DPA

3

Working with Virtual Hierarchies

Generating a Virtual Hierarchy

Generating a Soft Block for a Virtual Hierarchy

Virtual Hierarchy Data Sets in Navigator Assistant

Accessing a Virtual Hierarchy

Accessing a Virtual Hierarchy Clone

Accessing a Hierarchical Object

Types of Virtual Hierarchies

Virtual Hierarchy Placement Status

Virtual Hierarchy Display Controls

Setting Display Depth in Design Planning and Analysis

Viewing the Virtual Hierarchy Overrides

Automatic Adjustment of a Virtual Hierarchy Area Boundary

Moving Instances Outside a Virtual Hierarchy

Adding Instances to a Virtual Group

Virtual Pin Snapping

Dynamic Display Measurements for a Virtual Hierarchy

Virtual Hierarchy Editing Commands in Shortcut Menu

Virtual Hierarchy Shortcut Command Menu Table

Editing Virtual Hierarchy Clones

Virtual Hierarchy Recloning

Virtual Hierarchy Clones Containing Modgens

Adding Modgens to a Virtual Hierarchy

Converting Created Virtual Hierarchies to Modgens

Pin Accessibility Checker

Running the Pin Accessibility Checker

Fix Color Conflicts in Remastered Routed Views

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Congestion Analysis

Environment Setup for Congestion Analysis

Displaying the Congestion Analysis Assistant

Loading the Congestion Analysis Workspace

Uses of the Congestion Analysis Assistant

Running Global Routing and Congestion Analysis

Congestion Visualization

View the Heat Map

View the Histogram

View the Global Cell Track Utilization Table

Analyzing Congestion

Filtering by Analysis Modes

Filtering by Layers

Filtering by Histogram

Customizing a Histogram

Results Based on Histogram Customization

Customized as Interval

Customized as Start and End

Customized as Specified

Global Cells

Selecting and Viewing Global Cells

Displaying Empty Global Cells

Sorting the Global Cell Track Utilization Table

Toggling Congestion Map Visibility

Finding and Displaying Nets

Finding and Displaying Nets in the Navigator

Resetting the Histogram and Heat Map Display

Global Bias Constraints

Creating a Global Bias Positive Region Constraint

Creating a Global Bias Negative Region Constraint

Creating a Global Bias Path Constraint

Creating Multiple Global Bias Constraints for Specific Layers

Managing Scenic Ratio

Displaying the Scenic Ratio

Sorting Scenic Ratio

Modifying Scenic Ratio

A

Design Planning and Analysis Environment Variables

adjustBoundaryCheckOutside

adjustBoundaryIncludeTop

allAreaBoundaries

areaBoundaryAspectRatio

areaBoundaryEnclosure

areaBoundaryHeight

areaBoundaryMinJogLength

areaBoundarySnap

areaBoundaryUtilization

areaBoundaryWidth

areaEstimationCSVFile

autoAdjustBoundary

autoPlaceAllInstances

autoPlaceLimit

autoPlaceMinSep

autoPlaceOnAreaBoundaryEdit

autoPlaceOnPRBoundaryEdit

autoPlaceUseInstBBox

autoPositionLimit

casDisplayVirtHierMismatch

cmapAnalyzeIncludeBlockage

cmapAnalyzeMode

cmapEnablePinOptimizeStep

cmapHideAnalyzedDataInFilter

cmapHiLiteAnalyzedBrightness

cmapHiLiteDimAnalyzedBrightness

cmapHiLiteDimFilteredBrightness

cmapHiLiteFilteredBrightness

cmapHiLiteGlobalPathWidthPercent

cmapHiLiteSelectedBrightness

cmapHiLiteSpecGlobalPathWidth

cmapHistogramRanges

cmapMultiThreads

cmapNumTracksPerCell

cmapShowUnusedGCellMode

cmapUserDefinedNumTracks

congestionAwareAccuracy

createAreaBoundaryOnEdit

dashedLinePlacementStatusNone

defaultWorkspaceOnEIP

fixPlacementStatusOnMove

generateAreaBoundaries

generateSoftBlocks

generateSoftBlocksInTargetLibrary

generateVirtualHierarchy

keepVirtualGroupings

makeCellAllLevels

makeCellDeleteVirtualPins

makeCellLibUseCph

makeCellOptPins

makeCellOverwriteLayout

makeCellPinsBelow

makeCellPinsChoice

makeCellPushInBlock

makeCellPushInternalRoutesOnly

makeCellPushRoutesAsBlockages

makeCellType

makeCellVirtualClones

makeVirtualAllInstsSameMaster

makeVirtualGroupings

makeVirtualPreserveVirtualPins

pinLayerLimit

pinLayerLimitNum

pinOptOneConnectionPerSide

softBlockArea

softBlockAreaPercentTolerance

updateBelowBoundary

updateSoftBlocksFromSymbol

useAreaBoundaryUtilization

useBindKeys

verboseApOnVhEdit

vfpPACCells

vfpPACCheckViolationsInRouter

vfpPACCriticalNetName

vfpPACCustomRailWidth

vfpPACEnableDoubleCutVia

vfpPACEnableRouter

vfpPACEnableViaOnPG

vfpPACLayrWidthSpac

vfpPACLefFiles

vfpPACLeftRightTopology

vfpPACLibs

vfpPACMaxRoutingLayerNum

vfpPACOutputDir

vfpPACPlacementTopology

vfpPACRunWithInnovusLic

vfpPACRunVerifyDesignWithColorOpts

vfpPACTopBottomTopology

vfpPACSnapToGridLyr

vfpPACTopRoutingLyr

vfpPACUtilizationPer

vfpPACViaOnPGRail

vfpPACViews

vfpPACVoltageVal

vhCloneColor

vhCreatedColor

vhDimming

vhGeneratedColor

vhSelectiveMode

vhSymbolOverlay

B

Design Planning and Analysis Forms

Adjust Boundary Form

Bias Layers Form

Congestion Histogram Customize Form

Create Virtual Group Form

Design Planning and Analysis Options Form

Generate Layout Form

Generate

PR Boundary

Generate Selected Components Form

Global Bias Setup Form

Layer Display Form

Layer Overrides Form

Make Cell Form

Make Virtual Hierarchy Form

Pin Accessibility Checker Form

Remaster Form

Update Components And Nets Form

PR Boundary

Hierarchy

C

Congestion Analysis Assistant

Congestion Analysis Toolbar

Customizable Histogram

Global Cell Track Utilization Table

Net Selection Table

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