Projects and Designs

Mapping Equivalent Devices During Design Comparison

If you have selected the Device and Conductor Equivalent comparison type when comparing designs, you must map devices in the first design to equivalent devices in the second design. Click Map Equivalent Devices on the Compare Designs facility to access the dialog box used to map devices.

The Map Equivalent Devices dialog box lists the devices from the two designs in separate tables that list the names, pin counts, and part numbers of the devices. You can click the title of any column to sort the table according to the contents of that column.

The second design must contain equivalent devices for all of the devices in the first design for mapping to occur. The second design can contain devices that do not have equivalents in the first design but not the other way around.

You can select a device in either table and click the Associate button to map them. To unmap devices, select them in the tables and click the Disassociate button.

If you click the Assist button, the system attempts to map devices automatically. If it cannot map all devices, you must map some devices manually. When you click the Assist button, the Suggestions box displays any suggested mappings that the system has identified.

The Clear button clears all mappings.

When you are satisfied with the mappings, you can click the OK button to return to the Compare Designs facility.

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