Object Filter

Specifies the types of objects that can be probed when you click in the layout or schematic window. For example, if you check only Pins, you can create probes only for pin objects by clicking in either window. Clicking on a net or instance has no effect.

The object filters are applied in the order in which they appear in the form. For example, if you check all three then click in the layout window, Layout XL first looks for a pin shape and creates a pin probe if it finds one. If not, it looks for a routing shape and creates a net probe if it finds one. If not, it looks for an instance and creates an instance probe if it finds one.

When you create a probe on a pin, Layout XL probes only the pinFigs associated with the pin. When you create a probe on a net, Layout XL probes all the shapes on the specified net, including routing shapes and pinFigs.

The Object Filter option has no effect on probe creation using the object list in the XL Probe form, only on probe creation by clicking directly in the layout or schematic window.

Environment variables: probeNet and probePin

Send Messages to CIW

Sends information about the objects probed to the CIW and displays it in the box at the bottom of the form.

Environment variable: probeInfoInCIW

Show

Lists the names of the nets, pins, net classes, or instances in the layout depending on which category you select in the cyclic field. When you click one or more items in the list box, the items are highlighted in the schematic and the layout, and the name, window, and equivalency information about each item is shown in the display box. When you remove a probe, that information disappears from the display box.

CMX legacy net classes are listed in the XL Probe form but are not shown under the Net Class category in the Constraint Manager assistant. This does not impact the individual constraints migrated.

Probing Options

Opens the Highlight Options form, where you can specify how nets, instances, and terminals are probed and which layer and colors are used to draw the probes.

Zoom

Zooms to the bounding box of the currently selected objects.