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Manually Placing a Normal or Ground Device in a Slot

You can manually place one or more normal or ground devices at a time in a slot. You need to do this if you have not used automatic placement. When doing this, you select the slot. When you manually place a device, you have the option of using variant-based placement.

In addition to the instructions below, this video shows how you can drag and drop devices to place them in slots.

Procedure

Right click on the normal device(s) or ground device(s) in the Logical Designs Browser (Function tab) and choose Place Device. Alternatively, click the device(s) in the Logical Designs Browser (Function tab), press Space Bar and enter Place Device. The symbols for unplaced devices are grayed out in the Logical Designs Browser (Function tab).
Any slots already containing devices that are connected to the device(s) to be placed are highlighted in red in the diagram window. A list of slots displays in a Place Device Dialog

Box. The slots are split into the following groups: Slots with Matching Rule

						Slots with rules that say the device(s) should be
							placed here. 

					

					
						Slots without Applicable Rule

						Slots with no rules that relate to the device(s). The
							device could be place in one of these.

					

					
						Slots with Conflicting Rule

						Slots with rules that say the device(s) should not be
							placed here.

					

				

				Click the slot in which you want to place the device(s).

				Note 
					When placing a ground device, you can show or hide all
						non-ground slots by toggling the “Show device (non-ground) slots”
						option:  indicates that all slots
						(including non-ground slots) display currently,  indicates that only ground slots display
						currently.

If you do not want to perform a manual variant-based placement of a device, skip to step 5. If you want to perform a variant-based placement of a device, you enter an expression in the Placement Option box at the bottom of the Place Device dialog box. See Variant Placement of a Device for general concept information and examples.
If you selected multiple devices with different option expressions for placement, the Option field is empty, and a tooltip states the reason why. You can enter an expression that will be assigned to all selected devices for this variant placement. Note Performing a variant-based placement

is distinct from using the Edit Properties Dialog Box to add an option expression to a functional device itself in Capital Logic Designer because that would affect all instances of that device. Whenever an expression is entered during placement, this is treated as a variant-placement even when the option expression includes non-variant options. When you have used variant-based placement for a device, its symbol is slightly different in the Design Browser (Design tab). It looks like a device overlaid by a second device .

If you are placing a device with a footprint, use the Connector Map tab to map the footprint connectors to the harness and device connectors on the slot. By default, a new harness connector is created for each footprint connector and has the same name. You can rename the new connectors later.
Click the OK button.
The symbol for the device(s) is no longer grayed out in the Logical Designs Browser (Function tab) and the device(s) is added to the Design Browser (Design tab).

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Placement of a Device or Ground Device in a Slot