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

backAnnotateIgnoreBoundMasters

layoutXL backAnnotateIgnoreBoundMasters boolean { t | nil }

Description

Specifies whether backannotation should use the library and cell of a layout device as the schematic master. Use this environment variable if you want a backannotated device to have a different symbol to that of the existing schematic devices bound to the instances of the specified layout library and cell.

The default is nil.

GUI Equivalent

None

Examples

envGetVal("layoutXL" "backAnnotateIgnoreBoundMasters")
envSetVal("layoutXL" "backAnnotateIgnoreBoundMasters" 'boolean t)
Schematic            Layout
I1 (lib/nmos_2/symbol) <-bound-> I1 (lib/nmos/layout) 
                     I2 (lib/nmos/layout)

If backAnnotateIgnoreBoundMasters is set to nil, I2 will be backannotated as /lib/nmos_2/symbol.

If backAnnotateIgnoreBoundMasters is set to t, I2 will be backannotated as /lib/nmos/symbol.

Related Topics

Back Annotate Dummies Form

lxDummyBackAnnotateMFactor

Generating Selected From Layout


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