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Chapter 7
Autorouting and Autoplacement
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To perform a full autoroute, choose Autoroute»Start/Resume
Autorouter.
Ultiboard begins routing your board and displays its progress in the status
line. When the process is complete the results are displayed in the Results
tab of the Spreadsheet View.
Interactivity
Ultiboard provides complete interactivity, letting you stop the routing
process as desired to manually place items and then continue autorouting
when ready.
To stop autorouting, select Autoroute»Stop/Pause Autorouter.
To restart, select Autoroute»Start Autoplacement.
Autorouting buses
The circuit shown below is used in this example. Bus 1 consists of the five
nets that connect the two ICs.
Note
To autoroute buses, the topology for the nets, as set in the Net edit dialog box, must
be set to either Daisy chain
or Star and the nets must be part of a Bus Group (in the
Groups tab of the Net edit dialog box). Refer to the
section of
Chapter 5,
Working with Traces and Copper
, for more information.