Product Documentation
Virtuoso Width Spacing Patterns User Guide
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023

Pulling Up Patterns from a Subcell

To pull up the WSSPDefs for a single subcell or all instances of an instance master:

  1. Select an instance that has WSSPDefs in the layout.
  2. Click Pull Up One (for only this instance), Pull Up All (for all the instances of an instance master), Pull Up WSPs For Layers (for all instances of a layer) icons on the toolbar in the Track Pattern assistant. When you select Pull Up WSPs For Layers, you can select the layers to be used to pull up the WSPs.
    • All the WSPs and WSSPDefs that are defined in the instance master are copied to the level 0 design, if they are not already present in the level 0 design.
    • All pattern regions and their attributes are copied from level 1 to level 0.
    • A pattern region is created for every active SPDef in the instance master using the PR boundary, if it is set, or the bounding box of the instance master, if the PR boundary is not set. The regions will be named def_cell_inst, where def is the SPDef name, cell is the cell name, and inst is the instance name.
    • A figGroup is created with all instance boundary pattern regions as members. The figGroup for the global WSPs is named wspRegion_cell_inst and local pattern regions, if they exist, are named figGrp_cell_inst, where figGrp is the local region name, cell is the cell name, and inst is the instance name.

You can select and view the newly created figGroups using the Navigator assistant.

Related Topics

Launching the Track Pattern Assistant

Track Pattern Assistant Toolbar

Track Pattern Table


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