Product Documentation
Virtuoso Layout Suite XL: Connectivity Driven Editing User Guide
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023

List of Layout XL Environment Variables

abutAddUniqueDummyNet

abutChainEvent

abuttedPcellParamUpdate

abutSetEditedAsMoved

abutWithoutConnectivity

addlxStickyNetPropOnDummy

allowPinResizing

allowPinResizingInEdit

allowSelectedParamUpdate

alwaysGenerateProps

alwaysUseDescriptionForFiltering

autoAbutment

autoArrange

autoHideEmptyTabs

automaticHighlight

autoMirror

autoMirrorChains

autoMirrorFilter

autoPermuteNoAbutProp

autoSavePhysConfigUpdate

autoSpace

autoZoomEnabled

autoZoomFactor

autoZoomIsFixed

backAnnotateInstances

bindAllCellsInDesign

bindClearConn

bindCorrectMaster

bindCreateTransparent

bindCrossRefFile

bindCurrentLevel

bindExtract

bindExtractedNetlistFile

bindFactorWarnLimit

bindFile

bindFlattenLayoutCreate

bindIgnoreBulk

bindIgnoreDummies

bindIgnoreDummiesFullyConn

bindIgnoreRouteCells

bindIncr

bindIncrAddIgnore

bindIncrConn

bindIncrMessage

bindIncrPropagateConn

bindInitConn

bindInitInstTerms

bindLayoutStop

bindNameOnly

bindNewSplitParam

bindPermuteRules

bindPreserveExistingBindings

bindPreserveLayoutHierarchy

bindPreserveUserBindings

bindPVSRulesFile

bindPVSScale

bindRemoveUnboundTerminalsNoPins

bindReportCellsNoTerms

bindReportDummies

bindReportHierarchy

bindReportReduction

bindReportRouteCells

bindReportTerminalMismatch

bindReportUnconnInstTerms

bindSourceSkip

bindSourceStop

bindStrict

bindUpdateName

bindUseFingerWidth

bndRemoveDeviceConnectivity

capacitanceParamNames

casDisplayUnboundInsts

casGlyphs

casInfoBalloonOnHover

casMarkers

casMarkerTypeLimit

casSelected

casVisibleUnboundMarkers

chainAbutStrategy

chainAllowSingleBulk

chainCellOrient

chainDummyAbutment

chainEffort

chainExtendSelection

chainFolds

chainInPlace

chainLeftNet

chainMirror

chainMirrorEquivOrients

chainOptimize

chainPartitionByNumFins

chainPartitionByCompType

chainPartitionSizeMax

chainPermute

chainPermutePins

chainPreserveExistingChains

chainPreserveRows

chainSyncChains

chainUseAbutSpacing

chainUseDeviceOrder

checkRFUnimplementedTerms

checkBindings

checkCellsAsLeaf

checkCompType

checkDuplicateObjects

checkExcludeCellViews

checkExtractLayout

checkMasterCompType

checkMissingParamsOrProps

checkMissingTermPins

checkParamsOnly

checkPermute

checkRemoveDevice

checkShortsAndOpens

checkStateConfirmModeChange

checkStrictFingers

ciwWindow

cloneArrayFlipFirstColumn

cloneArrayFlipFirstRow

cloneArrayFlipNextFromPreviousColumn

cloneArrayFlipNextFromPreviousRow

cloneArrayRowOrColValue

cloneArrayXSpacing

cloneArrayYSpacing

cloneJustify

cloningAutomaticUpdateLayoutParameters

cloningDoExactMatch

cloneNumberPerRowOrCol

cloneSynchronizeUnlockedColor

cloneTransformFrom

cloningSearchIn

cloningSearchInConstraintOnly

cloningSearchInSelSetOnly

cloningUpdateConstraint

closeSchWindow

colorDraglines

colorOrNot

constraintAwareEditing

cphAutoUprev

cphCheckEmptyConfig

cphCheckTopCellName

cphHierForceDescendStopLibs

cphIncrementalElab

cphLayoutLibraryInLibList

cphLayoutSync

cphMasterLibraryOnly

cphNonDefaultAutomaticName

cphOpenWin

cphPromptConfigOrSchematic

cphScrollShowCellsMenu

cphShowInstanceColumns

cphStopLevel

cphStopLogicalElabAtPhysLeaf

cphStrictSchematicCheck

cphUseLayoutLibrary

cphUseLayoutViewName

cphVHSizeLimit

createBoundaryLabel

createImplicitBusTerminals

createPinsFromLabels

crossProbeHier

crossSelect

crossSelect

crossSelectInstTerm

crossSelectLayoutShape

deleteConfirmModeChange

deleteUnmatchedInsts

deleteUnmatchedPins

deviceExtractType

disableCASOptionsPopUp

disableFolding

disableVXLClonedModgenEditPopUp

displayConfigureTab

drdUseNetName

dummyBackAnnotateLocalNetActive

dummyBackAnnotateRelaxActiveRule

electricalPinSetup

enableCloneColoringSupport

equivalentAbutClasses

excludedViewList

extractShortLocatorAutoZoomToFit

extractShortLocatorCommonShapesColor

extractShortLocatorDisplayMode

extractShortLocatorHaloTransparency

extractShortLocatorHighlightLimit

extractShortLocatorNetColor1

extractShortLocatorNetColor2

extractShortLocatorNumThreads

extractShortLocatorOtherShapesColor

extractShortLocatorShowInstancePins

extractShortLocatorShowPinsAndLabels

extractShortLocatorShowVirtualLabelNetOnShapes

extractShortLocatorTrueColor

extractShortLocatorUseInstancePins

extractShortLocatorVirtualLabelNetOnShapesFontHeight

extractShowMustConnectMarkers

extractShowUnimplementedInstTerms

extractShowWeakMarkers

fingerSplit

fingerSplitSetWidth

flattenHierNameSep

flattenKeepLabels

flattenPreserveConn

flattenPreserveUnthreadedConn

flightLineEnable

flightLineForAllMustConnectInstTerms

foldEnforceWidthMatch

foldFingerSplitUseSchWidth

foldIgnoreMfactor

foldInPlace

foldInPlaceDirection

foldKeepFolds

foldsLimit

foldOptimizeSupplyAndGroundNets

foldUseThreshold

generateModgens

generatePinsDisplayLimit

generateXSpacing

generateYSpacing

hardBlockColor

hideDraglinesForGlobalNets

hideMarkersWhenBrowserHidden

hierarchyDepth

hierMfactorNames

hierSummaryColumns

hierSummaryLogFileName

highlightColors

highlightedIsSelectable

highlightObjRMB

highlightPotentialSwap

highlightPotentialSwapColor

highlightShapes

ignoreTermsWithNonRoutingLabels

incompleteNetFilter

incompleteNetFilter

incompleteNetFilterDefaultList

incompleteNetFilterMode

inductanceParamNames

infoWindow

infoWindowPos

initAreaFuncName

initAspectRatio

initAspectRatioOption

initCreateBoundary

initCreateInstances

initCreateMTM

initCreatePadPins

initCreatePins

initCreateSnapBoundary

initDoFolding

initDoStacking

initEstimateArea

initGlobalNetPins

initIOLabelType

initIOPinLayer

initIOPinLayerNames

initIOPinName

initIOPinPurposeNames

initPinHeight

initPinMultiplicity

initPinWidth

initPrBoundaryH

initPrBoundaryW

initUtilization

insertChain

insertChainAbutViolation

lamReadCdsLibs

lamReadFileMessage

lamReadUserLibs

lamReuseCache

layoutWindow

lswWindow

lxAbutPassGroupIdToEvent1

lxAllowPseudoParallelNets

lxChainAlignNMOS

lxChainAlignPMOS

lxCanSwapSDFunction

lxDeltaWidth

lxDummyBackAnnotateAll

lxDummyBackAnnotateMFactor

lxDummyBackAnnotateMFactorName

lxDummyBackAnnotateMissingTerm

lxEvalCDFCallbacks

lxFingeringNames

lxGenerateInBoundary

lxGenerationOrientation

lxGenerationTopLevelOnly

lxGetSignifDigits

lxGroundNetNames

lxInitResetSource

lxLocalAbutment

lxPositionCompact

lxPositionMinSep

lxPositionPinsOnBoundary

lxPositionUseInstPrB

lxRetainFoldOrient

lxSchematicDefaultApp

lxSchematicEditMode

lxSchExtractTopLevelOnly

lxStackMinimalFolding

lxStackPartitionParameters

lxSupplyNetNames

lxSwapSDFunction

lxUpdateFoldedWidth

lxUseLibList

lxValidateXLParameterEvaluation

lxWidthTolerance

makeCellCreatePins

makeCellPinsBelowBoundary

makeCellPRBoundary

makeCellPreserveConn

makeCellTransparent

matchedToIgnore

mfactorNames

mfactorSplit

moveAsGroup

netTracerAutoZoomOnSelected

netTracerColor

netTracerConnectedLayer

netTracerConstraintGroup

netTracerCrossHighlightNetInSchematic

netTracerDisplayDepth

netTracerDisplayMode

netTracerExcludePurposes

netTracerExcludePurposesName

netTracerFromNet

netTracerHaloFadeoutShapes

netTracerHaloForPins

netTracerHaloForShapes

netTracerHaloStyleThick

netTracerHaloTransparency

netTracerMaxCutShapes

netTracerNumShapesLimitForRefresh

netTracerNumThreads

netTracerOn

netTracerPopupSelectionWindow

netTracerPopupSelectionWindow

netTracerRange

netTracerRegion

netTracerSaveMethod

netTracerShowPreview

netTracerStartLevel

netTracerStepMode

netTracerStopLayer

netTracerStopLevel

netTracerUpdateIncrementally

netTracerViaLayer

openConnRef

openConnRefTab

openLocation

openMode

opticalPinSetup (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

paramsToCheck

paramsToIgnore

paramsToIgnoreForCheck

paramTolerance

passFigIdsToEvent3

phoAbutClass (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

phoAbutFunction (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

phoAbutNonPcells (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

phoComposeMaster (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

phoComposeMasterPromptOff (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

phoPinInputAngle (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

phoPinLayer (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

phoPinRadius (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

phoPinWidth (Virtuoso Photonics Option)

physOnlyTerminalsRemoveBang

pibCellName

pibCreateBlockageType

pibCreatePinLPPChoice

pibFloatPurposeNames

pibLayerNames

pibLibName

pibPinLPPName

pibPinPurposeName

pibPurposeNames

pibPushAllAsBlockage

pibPushBlockage

pibPushCloseWire

pibPushFloats

pibPushNonPowerGndNet

pibPushPowerGndNet

pibPushRows

pibPushMode

pibPushSelection

pibPushWhole

pibNetType

pibReMasterInst

pibViewName

pibWSPActivePattern

placeCloneAsArray

prBoundarySnap

prefixLayoutInstNamesWithPipe

preserveAreaBoundary

preserveBlockages

preserveClusters

preserveClusterBoundaries

preservePRBoundary

preserveRows

preserveSnapBoundary

preserveSnapPatterns

preserveTrackPattern

probeCycleHilite

probeDevice

probeDuringCreate

probeHiliteLayer

probeInfoInCIW

probeNet

probePin

processBatchViolations

propagateAssignNet

propsUsedToIgnoreObjs

propsUsedToIgnoreObjsForCheck

removeDuplicateObjects

renameClonesWhenFamilyIsRenamed

renameConflictingLayoutInstances

resistanceParamNames

saveViewSubType

schematicWindow

schLayLibraryPair

scopeLevel

segmentParamNames

setPPConn

sfactorNames

sfactorSplit

showDraglinesForDistantConns

showIncompleteNets

showPropagateConnectivityReport

showTabs

showUnplacedInstances

smartDeletePathSegBetweenVia

snapCpaToPlacementGrid

softBlockColor

stopList

stretchWithPRBoundary

substrateNetParamNames

suppressAbutFailMsgs

suppressExpansion

swapIncludeOrientation

swapOrigin

tabPosition

transistorWidthParamNames

turnInfixOffWhenSmartSnapping

unfoldUseLayoutWidths

updateBindMfactorSplit

updateBindPhysicalBinding

updateLayoutInstNames

updateLayoutNetNames

updateLayoutParameters

updateNetMinMaxVoltage

updateNetSigType

updateNetsOnly

updateOneToOneMappings

updateParamChangeNumFolds

updateParamCopyFolds

updateParamsForCheck

updatePlaceBelowBoundary

updatePlacementStatus

updatePlacementStatusInBoundary

updateReplacesMasters

updateSchParamWithEvalValue

updateSelectedComponents

updateWithMarkers

useConstantAreaStretch

useHierMfactorNames

viewList

vlGenAutoDetectCells

vlGenCreateCells

vlGenCreateCellsInPhysConfigLib

vplGenCreateCells

vplGenLibs

vplGenParams

vplGenSetDefaultLayout

xlComplianceCheckDevices

xlComplianceCreateCasMarkers

xlComplianceFilter

xlComplianceHtml

xlComplianceHtmlOpen

xlComplianceLogDir

xlComplianceLogs

xlStatus


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