Overview

Associating Logical Designs with the Topological Design

In order to place devices and synthesize wiring in a topological design, you must associate one or more designs from Capital Logic Designer with it. When doing this, you associate a specific revision of each design.

You can associate more than one logical design with a single topological design. To do this, you can either associate the designs individually or associate a build list.

Procedure

Either:

Press Space Bar and enter Associate Logical Designs.
Click the Associate Logical Designs () button on the Design Browser (Design tab).

The Associate Logical Designs Dialog Box displays and the Associated Designs window displays any logical designs that are associated already.

If you want to...	Do the following:
Associate individual designs	Choose None from the Managed by Build List drop-down list. Click the Add associated designs () button; the Add Selected Logical Design Dialog Box displays. In the Logical designs window, select the logical designs that you want to associate and click Add Selected; the logical designs are added to the Associated Designs window in the Associate Logical Designs dialog box. An icon () is displayed next to the added designs. If you add a design that is a newer revision of an already associated design, the following indicates that the new one replaces the old: Click OK to save the changes.
Associate a build list	Choose the build list from the Managed by Build List drop-down list; the design revisions from the build list display in the Associated Designs window. Click OK to associate the design revisions from the build list.

If you want to...

Do the following:

Associate individual designs

Choose None from the Managed by Build List drop-down list. Click the Add associated designs () button; the Add Selected Logical Design Dialog Box displays. In the Logical designs window, select the logical designs that you want to associate and click Add Selected; the logical designs are added to the Associated Designs window in the Associate Logical Designs dialog box. An icon () is displayed next to the added designs. If you add a design that is a newer revision of an already associated design, the following indicates that the new one replaces the old: Click OK to save the changes.

Associate a build list

Choose the build list from the Managed by Build List drop-down list; the design revisions from the build list display in the Associated Designs window. Click OK to associate the design revisions from the build list.

Note

When associating individual designs, you can remove the association with a logical design by selecting it in the Associated Designs window and clicking the Remove associated designs button. An icon indicates that you are going to remove the association when you click OK.

Results

The devices and nets from the associated designs are added to the Logical Designs Browser (Function tab). The listed devices are ready to be placed in slots. See Placement of a Device or Ground Device in a Slot.
After the devices are placed in slots, you can synthesize wiring for the nets. See Synthesizing Wiring.

Notes relating to option expressions on devices and nets:

Any nets that are tagged with an option expression that evaluates to FALSE because of obsolete options are not added to the Logical Designs Browser. Similarly, a net connection is not added if that connection’s pins are tagged with an option expression that evaluates to FALSE because of obsolete options.
Devices tagged with an option expression that evaluates to FALSE because of obsolete options are not added. Similarly, a device is not added even if one of its pins is tagged with an option expression that evaluates to FALSE because of obsolete options.
In the case of a net connected to multiple pins, the net is added if at least one of its pins has an option expression that is TRUE. However, the net is ignored if its pins all have option expressions that are FALSE.

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