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Placement of Devices with Footprints in Slots

When a device with a footprint is placed in a slot, the appropriate number of slot connectors on the slot are associated with the device automatically. Those slot connectors are mapped to the connectors from the footprint. If necessary, new slot connectors are created accordingly to provide the required mapped connectors.

You can place multiple devices with footprints in a slot. This enables you to place devices that are normally mutually exclusive but have similar connectivity in the same slot. For example, two different radios may be available in a vehicle. The radios have some connectivity in common but also have some different connectivity. It is desirable to place both radios in the same slot so that the system can synthesize any common wiring once, rather than having duplicate wires.

The placing of multiple device with footprints also supports a scenario where a slot represents a cabinet or room. In this case, the devices might not be mutually exclusive and have entirely separate slot connectors for each device.

Capital Systems Integrator requires a Capital Logic Designer footprint to be well-defined when it attempts to place a device. Otherwise, a warning is generated and the placement action is aborted.

Capital Systems Integrator cannot place a device if pins from the library definition are not mapped to the connectors. It also cannot place a device if it has fewer pins than are defined in the library footprint.

However, Capital Systems Integrator can place a shared device if the instances of the device have fewer pins than in the library footprint because a shared device definition should have the correct number of pins (even if the instances do not). Therefore, if you want to place a device with fewer connectors and pins than it has defined in its footprint, you must promote the device to a shared device first.

If a device in a slot has a footprint, the footprint name displays on the General tab of the Edit Properties Dialog Box for the device. You cannot edit any signal to pin associations for the footprint because this information is set when the device is placed in the slot.

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You can also place a device in one slot multiple times using option expressions. This enables the device to have a different footprint depending on the configuration. See Variant Placement of a Device for examples.

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Placement of a Device or Ground Device in a Slot