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Chapter 7

Autorouting and Autoplacement

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NI Ultiboard User Manual

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

Setting Group Parameters

section of

Chapter 5,

Working with Traces and Copper

, for more information.

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