Make Cell – Transparent

The binder can recognize the instances and nets within a made cell instance and can bind them in a one-to-one correspondence with the schematic instances.

• Even when a made cell does not have instances and nets within, the made cell is defined as ‘transparent’. For route cells without pins, this allows shape-chasing for connectivity extraction without needing an increase in the extraction depth.
• Set makeCellTransparent to false, if you do not want the made cell instance to be transparent.
  It is likely that a schematic instance in the design is bound to a layout instance that exists inside the transparent made cell instance. Layout XL supports cross-selecting such instances that exist within a transparent instance and their corresponding schematic instances, as shown in the figure below.
  
  

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Make Cell – Connected

Make Cell – Pins Created