CPH Menu Bar

Lets you access menu commands to perform different types of tasks in the Configure Physical Hierarchy window.

CPH Toolbar

Lets you access Configure Physical Hierarchy commands directly without opening any menus.

Hierarchy Configuration Mode in the CPH Window

Controls how the physical hierarchy is generated from the logical design, including which logical components are to be ignored in the physical implementation and which physical views are used to implement the logical components

Component Types Mode in the CPH Window

Lets you create, edit, and remove component types, set the parameters for device chaining and folding, and control how the components are placed in rows.

Soft Block Mode in the CPH Window

Lets you partition the logical design by defining and editing parameters for the soft blocks that will be created when you generate the physical hierarchy.

Top Cell Pane

Displays the top-level logical cellview and the corresponding physical cellview to be generated in the context of the current physical configuration.

It is a dockable pane, which you can dock on either side of the main Configure Physical Hierarchy window, or leave undocked as a floating window.

This pane is available in Hierarchy Configuration and Soft Block modes.

Logical

Shows the library, cell, and view names of the logical view associated with the current physical configuration view. Use the Open button to open (or raise, if already open) the specified logical view in the context of the current physical configuration.

Physical

Shows the library, cell, and view names of the physical view associated with the current physical configuration view. Use the Open button to open (or raise, if already open) the specified physical view in the context of the current physical configuration.

Open

Opens (or raises, if already open) the specified views in the context of the current physical configuration view, which might be different from the configuration the schematic was using previously. If either cellview is not fully specified, this is indicated by the text <unknown> in the relevant field and the Open button is grayed out.

If there are multiple open layout views, all using the same physical configuration view, the Top Cell pane shows the layout view in the last layout window you clicked.

Global Bindings Pane

Specifies how the logical design is traversed and how the logical to physical correspondence for leaf cells (stop points) is made.

It is a dockable pane, which you can dock on either side of the main Configure Physical Hierarchy window, or leave undocked as a floating window.

This pane is available in Hierarchy Configuration and Soft Block modes.

Physical library list

Specifies the list of libraries that are searched to find the corresponding physical cell for a given logical cell. By default, the library containing the logical cell is always searched first.

Environment variable: lxUseLibList

Logical switch view list

Specifies the view names that are used to descend into a hierarchical design to find layout views.

Environment variable: viewList

Physical stop view list

Specifies the view names that are used to determine the corresponding physical view for a given logical view. When traversing a hierarchy, Configure Physical Hierarchy stops when it encounters a view with one of the specified names.

Environment variable: stopList

Constraint view list

Lists the names of the views containing constraint data. This list is passed to the Virtuoso Schematic Editor when it is opened in the context of a physical configuration, allowing it to determine whether the contents of the Constraint Manager must be updated.