( ESNUG 388 Item 2 ) --------------------------------------------- [02/27/02]
From: "Cyrus Malek" <cyrusm@synopsys.com>
Subject: ( ESNUG 386 #14 ) Cooley Spanked For Omitting PhysOpt's Viewer
Hi John,
I was just reviewing my post in ESNUG 386 #14 and I noticed you chose to
omit some of my post, specifically:
Some Physical Viewer (GUI) highlights that can help you determine
what your cell obstructions look like:
In psyn_gui, when the Physical View is opened, a cell's internal
obstructions can be made visible by checking the check box next to
'Obstruction'. Likewise, the cell's port shapes can be made
visible by checking the check box for 'Port Shape'. In the
standard display mode for cells, all cells that are fixed in place
will show up in a different color. The color setting can be
modified in the Cell Preferences menu.
The tone of my postings has been to gather as much useful information as
possible directly related to 'obstructions' and put it in one place (or a
few postings) in ESNUG. Since not everybody knows what the PhysOpt GUI can
be use for, they aren't necessarily going to use the GUI to sanity-check or
analyze their designs. By posting this GUI information together with the
'obstruction backgrounder' material, I am hoping to help empower users to
be able do debug issues themselves. Not all users are going to be back-end
savvy, and hopefully information like the above can ease the transition to
being more familiar with the back-end.
- Cyrus Malek
Synopsys, Inc. Austin, TX
[ Editor's Note: Sorry, on my second reading of your post, I agree that I
shouldn't have removed the Physical Viewer GUI stuff. Sorry. - John ]
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