150% Device

A 150% device is one that represents a merging of multiple, very similar devices. The devices (for example, two different radios) typically have a great deal of common connectivity (that is, pins and net connections) but often each have some unique connectivity. In particular, they are likely to have different connector part numbers and often a different number of cavities. Due to the high level of commonality, it is advantageous to represent the devices with a single 150% device in Capital Logic Designer designs. In Capital Systems Integrator, you then variantly place the merged device in separate slots so that the individual devices are implemented.

To support this, Capital Systems Integrator allows pins from logical devices to be left unmapped, without this causing failures when Synthesizing Wiring or when running Design Rule Checks.

The Design Assistant does not report unmapped pin errors if the pin (or all nets attached to the pin) have an option expression which is exclusive with the variant placement option (that is, the pin can never be active in this slot).

Usage Example - 150% Device

In a Capital Logic Designer design, you have a device TAPE PLAYER with eight pins.

Figure 49: 150% Device in Capital Logic Designer

Note

The pin names are numbers in this example. However, this is not best practice and it is normally recommended that you name pins based on their function (for example, PWR, GND, AUDIO_OUT_L, and so on).

You use pin 7 and pin 8 only in right-hand drive vehicles so you define an Option attribute for each of them with the expression Market-RHD. This means those pins are conditional on the Variant Option Market-RHD and are active only in right-hand drive vehicles.

Figure 50: Option Attribute of Market-RHD on Pin

You use pin 5 and pin 6 only in left-hand drive vehicles so you define an Option attribute for each of them with the expression Market-LHD. This means those pins are conditional on the Variant Option Market-LHD and are active only in left-hand drive vehicles.

The Capital Logic Designer design is associated with a Capital Systems Integrator design.

You can place the TAPE PLAYER device in two different slots using variant placement, one slot for right-hand drive vehicles (TAPE_RHD) and another for left-hand drive vehicles (TAPE_LHD).

Figure 51: Variant Slots in Capital Systems Integrator

When the you place the device in slot TAPE_LHD, you specify a Placement Option of Market-LHD on the Place Device Dialog Box. This means it is conditional on the variant option Market-LHD and appears only in left-hand drive vehicles.

Therefore, if you look at the Edit Properties Dialog Box of the device in the TAPE_LHD slot, it has a “Configuration: Option” value Market-LHD.

Figure 52: Variant Slots and Devices in Design Browser (Design Tab)

Figure 53: Option Attribute of Market-LHD on Edit Properties Dialog Box for Device in Slot TAPE_LHD

Similarly, when you place the device in slot TAPE_RHD, you specify a Placement Option of Market_RHD. This means it is conditional on the variant option Market-RHD and appears only in right-hand drive vehicles. Therefore, if you look at the Edit Properties dialog box of the device in the TAPE_RHD slot, it has an Option value Market-RHD.

You assign a library part TAPE_PLAYER_PART to the device in both slots.

Figure 54: Library Part Assignment on Edit Properties Dialog Box for Device in Slot TAPE_LHD

Looking at the details of the library part, it has two footprints FP1 and FP2.

Note

It is normally recommended that you name footprints in a way that helps to distinguish between them. For example, LHD and RHD.

Figure 55: Footprint Details for Library Part

The device in slot TAPE_LHD uses FP1 where the device pins map to a six pin connector so that pins 7 and 8 are unmapped. Remember that pins 7 and 8 are not active in a left-hand drive vehicles.

Figure 56: FP1 Pin Mapping Details

The device in slot TAPE_RHD uses FP2 where the device pins once again map to a six pin connector but pins 5 and 6 are unmapped this time. Remember that pins 5 and 6 are not active in a right-hand drive vehicles.

Figure 57: FP2 Pin Mapping Details

In each case, the device uses only some of its pins, the others remain unconnected.

When a device is placed in a Capital Systems Integrator design, the Design Assistant would normally display an error when pins are unmapped. However, such errors are not displayed in this case because of the option expressions that were specified on the device pins in Capital Logic Designer.

If those option expressions were not specified on the pins, those pins would be active always. In that case, the Design Assistant would report errors, such as:

Signal 2N-POWER-3 is Unmapped for TAPE PLAYER:8 in Slot TAPE_LHD

This error indicates that pin 8 is unmapped in slot TAPE_LHD.

The device uses footprint FP1 in that slot and FP1 has pin 8 unmapped. Without an option expression of Market-RHD specified on the pin, the system would expect it to be active, even in slot TAPE_LHD.

However, when the option expressions are specified on the pins, no such error is reported and the Signal Map Dialog Box for Slots in Capital Systems Integrator shows the unmapped pins. Synthesizing Wiring also runs correctly with connections made to the common pins, as well as connections made to the mapped pins in each slot.

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Capital Systems Integrator User Guide, 2512.2606

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