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Views
Chapter 3. Concepts
Selection View
The Selection view provides an interface allowing a user to view and manage the current selection set.
A selection set consists of a collection of ACE design database objects. The selection set may also be
manipulated with the Tcl commands
and
The Selection view displays the current selection set in a list, organized by object type. The object type
groupings are Instances, Ports, Pins, Nets, Paths, and Sites; these are the only object types which may be
Selected.
Note:
A maximum of 200 objects are displayed in the Selection view at a time. When more than
200 objects are selected, the full selection set may be paged through using the toolbar
buttons (
and
).
The (current page of) selected objects in the Selection view will also be displayed with special coloration (by
default a bright green) in the Floorplanner view and the Package view.
Various drag-and-drop operations may be initiated by dragging single or (in some cases) multiple items
from the selection list to other views in the Floorplanner perspective. If the user wishes to drag all selected
objects of a given type (for example, Instances), including those not in the current page of 200 selected
objects, then the node with that type name (ex: Instances) may be dragged. (Be aware that some drag-and-
drop operations, like pre-placement assignment, will not work with multiple selected objects at once.)
Instances and Ports in the selection list may be dragged and dropped onto the
to assign
pre-placement or add
constraints (the behavior depends upon the Floorplanner’s active
tool/mode). Ports in the selection list may be dragged and dropped onto the
to assign pre-
placement. Instances and Paths in the results list may be dragged to the
to add
placement region constraints.
By default, the Selection view is included in the
To add it to the current
perspective, select Window → Show View → Other. . . → Selection.
Selection View Icons
Icon
Description
Object
Placed Object (Applies to instances and ports)
Fixed-Placed Object (Applies to instances and ports)
I/O Macro (Applies to ports)
Instances (All instances will be under this branch of the selection.)
Ports (All ports will be under this branch of the selection.)
Pins (All pins will be under this branch of the selection.)
Nets (All nets will be under this branch of the selection.)
Paths (All paths will be under this branch of the selection.)
Sites (All sites will be under this branch of the selection.)
Many of the actions available in the Selection view are available as both toolbar buttons and right-click
context menu choices. Toolbar buttons act upon all the listed Selection items, while context menu actions
will only affect the subset of items currently chosen within the Selection list.
Selection View Actions
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