Generating VPLGen Pcell Instances

This section describes how to use the VPLGen core layouts you have created to quickly generate and manipulate layout components in your design. You can do this in either of the two ways below:

• After you have generated the VPLGen instances in your layout, you can update the core layout by copying an existing VPLGen core layout and then editing it as required without those edits affecting other users. Because the layout is copied, the design remains self-contained and therefore more portable. However, any subsequent changes to the VPLGen core layout are not automatically reflected in the copied VPLGen.
• After you have generated the VPLGen instances in your layout, you can update the core layout by mapping (remastering) to any layout defined in one of the available libraries.
  This lets you re-use any pre-existing standard cell library you might have created for the VPLGen without having to update every single instance with a parameter different in Configure Physical Hierarchy.
  • The layout you map to need not be a VPLGen core layout. You can map to any layout in your library.
  • This is not a copy of the layout. Any edits to the new core layout will also change any other instances that use this layout as their master.

Related Topics

Remastering a VPLGen to a Different Core Layout

Copying a VPLGen from Layout