This topic provides a high-level overview of the new features in the IC23.1 release.
IC23.1 ISR1
Reporting Coloring Violations in Remastered Routed View
The Pin Accessibility Checker can now report the coloring violations in the remastered, routed view by setting the vfpPACRunVerifyDesignWithColorOpts environment variable to true.
IC23.1 Base
Support for Coloring on Remastered Routed View
The Pin Accessibility Checker is enhanced to apply recoloring by multi-patterning engine on all remastered view so that the design remains color-correct.
New DPA Toolbar Icon
The DPA toolbar now includes the Auto-Create Pins icon, which can be used to launch the Auto-Create Pins form.
Preserve Area Boundary Enclosure
Use the new preserve enclosure field on the Design Planning and Analysis Options form to automatically resize the area boundary of a virtual hierarchy to maintain the specified enclosure value when an instance or a figGroup is moved towards the area boundary.
Specify Placement Status of Created Virtual Hierarchy using SKILL
Use the new optional argument, placementStatus, supported by the lxMakeVirtualHierarchy SKILL function to specify the placement status for the created virtual hierarchies.
List Cellview IDs of Made Cells using SKILL
The lxVirtualHierarchyMakeCell SKILL function can now list cellview IDs of the made cells, which makes it easy to identify the newly created cells, especially when multiple virtual hierarchies are used to create these cells.
Create Virtual figGroup Using Devices from Different Designs
When the vhSelectiveMode environment variable is set to t, use the lxHiCreateVirtGroup SKILL function to create virtual figGroups using layout devices that are bound to schematic instances from different designs.
