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Using the Routing Assistant to Identify the Possible Routes for One or More

	Unrouted Wires

You can use the Routing Assistant to identify all possible, common routes for one or more unrouted wires. Each stage of the route may or may not be complete in the associated Capital Logic Designer designs. The Routing Assistant also displays details of viable and unviable routes, and where you must add an instance of an inline pair in the Capital Logic Designer designs to complete a route.

This video demonstrates using the Routing Assistant to insert inline pairs into Capital Logic Designer designs.

Note

This video was recorded in a version prior to the introduction of functionality for filtering Routing Assistant to show viable routes only or both viable and unviable routes and before support for routing multicores, but the general functionality is the same. The viable route functionality is covered in the information in this topic.

Restrictions and Limitations

When the ‘Enable multi-user editing of designs’ project preference is set to true for Capital Logic Designer designs, the Place Inline action is not permitted. See Multi-User

Access to Capital Logic Designer Designs for information about this project preference and multi-user access.

The Routing Assistant can map only a single wire to an inline pin. Multi-termination is not supported.

The viability of a route is determined using the following three factors:

                      Available pins on the inline connector part number

                  

                  
                      Available unrestricted pins on the shared inline connector

                  

                  
                      Wire specification compatibility

                  

              

              Note 
                  When checking wire specification compatibility, the
                      system considers only the connector cavity definition.

                  When checking available pins, the system also checks that a pin is
                      available where a shield termination is required. Where there are
                      multiple shields and not enough pins, no shields or pigtails are
                      terminated. When termination of a shield fails due to insufficient
                      space, this is due to the presence of wires, not devices.

The system evaluates viability with regard to the current path only. For example, if there are ten viable paths and you implement one of those, you will need to run Routing Assistant again because the viability of the remaining nine paths may change as a result.
The system considers a shared pin as consumed once it is used in a project. Therefore, it will not be included in viability calculations or the Place Inline action.

Procedure

Under the Unrouted node of the Design Browser (Capital

Wiring Integrator) or under the Designs node of the Wiring Browser, select one or more unrouted wires for which you want to identify possible routes and either: Right-click and select Routing Assistant.

						Click the Show Routing
								Assistant button ()
							in the Design Browser or Wiring Browser.

					

					
						Press the space bar and enter Route.

					

				

			
			
				Alternatively, if the Routing Assistant is already open, you
					can drag and drop wires from a tab for a Capital Logic Designer design or a
					Capital Wiring Integrator design into the Routing Assistant. The wires must
					exist in Capital Wiring Integrator and be unrouted. If a dragged wire does
					not meet those criteria, a message is displayed in the Output window.

			
			
				Note 
					The behavior of the Routing Assistant can vary depending
						on the combination of conductors that you selected and where you
						selected them, see Routing Assistant Behavior for Different Combinations of Conductors
						for more information.

A progress bar indicates that the system is identifying the routes and it displays the common, unique routes for the wires in the Routing Assistant tab in the Output Window.
When you select a route in the Routes table so that the row is highlighted in blue, the To‑Do List table (on the right) displays the details for the stages of the selected route. See “Routing Assistant” for a detailed description of the information in this table.

Figure 175: Route Selected in Routes Table (Routing Assistant)

Note The routes displayed in the Routes table and To-Do List table have an icon to indicate whether they are viable and implemented: viable route not implemented , viable route implemented , unviable route that is not implemented , unviable route that is implemented . You can toggle whether the Routes Table displays only viable routes (the default) or both viable and unviable routes by clicking the button. The application remembers what you selected when you last used Routing Assistant. This toggle works in conjunction with the Show shortest route only filter so you can select to show just the shortest viable route.
In the Routes table, select the Place column for the route that you want the wires to follow; the To-Do List table displays the details for the stages of the selected route.
For each stage of the route where a wire is displayed in red, you must add an instance of an inline connector to an associated Capital Logic Designer design so that the wire passes through it. To do this, click the Place Inline button ().
If you click a wire cell in the To-Do List table, a tooltip displays additional information about it, including links to any instances of that object in the Capital Wiring Integrator diagram or in the associated Capital Logic Designer diagrams. You can click the link to jump to the Capital Logic Designer diagram where the instance of the inline connector is required.

Figure 176: Wire Cell Tooltip (Routing Assistant)

If you click a From or To connector cell in the To-Do List table, a tooltip displays an inline connector report that includes information about the connector (see Connector Details Dialog Box for descriptions of the fields). You can click the Show connector detail icon () at the top right of a connector cell tooltip to access the report. It reports on the unrouted wires present in the selected route through the inline connector. The report can be saved as a CSV file.

Figure 177: Connector Cell Tooltip (Routing Assistant)

Figure 178: Connector Related to Cell Tooltip

When you click Place Inline, a Place Inline Pair dialog box warns you that you cannot undo this action.

Note There are various cases in which the Place Inline action can fail. See Failure Cases for Place Inline.

If there are more than one inline pair that you can place (because there are multiple inline connectors along the route in Capital Wiring Integrator), you choose the inline pair to place in the Place Inline Pair dialog box, and then click Place.

             The system places the inline pair in the appropriate Capital Logic Designer
                 diagrams. A Manage Connections Dialog Box is displayed. It lists the
                 pins on the inline connector instance and the wires that are connected to
                 them. If the inline halves in Capital Wiring Integrator had no part numbers,
                 the Place Inline action creates pins in a logical fashion using default
                 naming. If they had part numbers, it uses names from the library parts.

         
         
             Note 
                 If an inline connector is placed in a viable location, the system will
                     intelligently map pins to the wire based on the wire specification. 

                 If the relevant Capital Logic Designer diagram is currently read-only,
                     the Place Inline action attempts to acquire the lock on the design,
                     places the inline, and then releases the lock.

Use the Manage Connector dialog box to edit the pin to wire connections as you require and click OK.Note The newly split wires (that is, those from the routing assistant) display with an icon in the Manage Connector dialog box. This helps you to identify which are the new wires. To add multiple inline connectors, click the Refresh Wiring button () in the Design Browser after placing an inline connector, and then use the Routing Assistant again to place the next inline connector.

Results

The viability of routes is checked again and the icons in the Routing Assistant are updated accordingly.
When a stage of a route is completed for a wire in the Capital Logic Designer diagrams, the wire name in that To-Do List table row changes from red to black.
When a stage is complete for all wires following that route, the status column for it in the To-Do List table displays a tick ().
When all stages are complete for all wires following that route, the status column for the route in the Routes table displays a tick ().
If the system adds the inline connector to more than one design, it shares the inline connector automatically.
The system splits the inline connector on a diagram if there are more than four grid points between wires.
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              Figure 179: Split Inline Connector
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If the inline halves in the Capital Wiring Integrator diagram had a value specified for their Part Number property, the system looks for the part numbers in Capital Component Manager. If the part numbers exist, the system assigns the part numbers to the appropriate inline connectors when it creates them in the Capital Logic Designer designs.

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Wires (Capital Wiring Integrator)