Enhancements

ATE-3568

Animate now imports cells where lxUseCell contains 3 strings corresponding to an LCV; it will only do so, provided the original cell does not contain a layout view.

If a layout view is present on the original cell that layout will be preferred.

ATE-3520

Added support for fingerSplit. If fingerSplit is set to true, then multi-finger mosfets are netlisted as multiple single finger devices.

ATE-3572

Within the Animate Results view, in the context menu there are 4 new options. Two of these options are always shown.

  • "Select All Layouts"
  • "Deselect All Layouts"

In the case where layouts have been loaded into Animate and layouts have been generated by Animate there are two additional options:

  • "Select All Loaded Layouts"
  • "Select All Generated Layouts"

These buttons either select or deselect all or a subsection of the layouts in the results section.

When Animate loads up and it has some loaded layouts, the layout generation does not start. To indicate this to a user, a new banner pops up in the results section stating this and prompting the user to "Deselect all loaded layouts to generate new layouts.". This banner has two buttons, one to dismiss it, and one to kick off layout generation, by deselecting the loaded layouts.

ATE-3571

Within the Net constraints editor, the Pin Side, Pin Layers, Pin Width, and Pin Order columns are now hidden by default. 

These columns can be seen within a new context menu, accessed by right-clicking on the table header where the column names are located.

ATE-3750

Within the Net constraints editor there is a new column, Pin Options.

This new column is shown by default, whereas the other pin columns are hidden by default. The hidden columns can be shown via enabling them from the context menu that appears when right-clicking on the table header.

If a net is a top level net, the Pin Options column shows a top level pin icon to indicate that the net has a top level pin and the pin options are editable for that net.

There is now a new Pin Options dialog where the pin side, pin layers, and pin width can be modified. This replaces the pin side drop down, and the individual dialogs for pin width and pin layers. This means all pin options can be modified in a single dialog.

Double-clicking on the pin options, pin side, pin layers, or pin width columns will pop up this dialog box.

ATE-3534

Exporting the Animate constraints to schematic.

When a user edits the constraints in Animate, the non-default constraints can be exported to the schematic and reloaded from the schematic in subsequent sessions. 

If the schematic is read-only, a banner is displayed in Animate's constraint editor, providing a button to change the Virtuoso schematic session to editable - equivalent to selecting "Make Editable" inside Virtuoso - allowing the constraints changes to be exported.

When the constraints are exported, a * in the Virtuoso schematic title bar indicates that the schematic is edited and needs to be saved.

 

Resolved Issues

ATE-3539

Fixed a bug that caused Animate to erroneously generate an empty ".png" directory.

 

Other Items

ATE-3558, ATE-3435, ATE-3433, ATE-3432, ATE-3431, ATE-3573, ATE-3565, ATE-3559, ATE-3523, ATE-3587, ATE-3343, ATE-3326, ATE-3561.