Chip Design Library Panel
Overview
The chip design library panel displays the chip designs that
reside in the repository being
used by this instance of the application. It is a sub-panel of the component library panel.
The table displays the name of each chip design.
Above the table is a checkbox that lets you hide or show the core
chip designs.
You can preview each chip design by selecting it. The
preview will display in the panel on the right. The preview panel allows you to select the colors to plug into the design.
Below the table are buttons that provide the following
functionality:
- Create a new chip design: This will prompt you for the
name of the new chip design (which must be unique) and create an
empty design.
- Design the selected chip design: This will let you edit
the selected chip design using the chip design designer.
- Copy the selected chip design(s): This will make exact
replicas of the selected chip designs.
- Rename the selected chip design(s): The renames the
selected chip design(s). Any components that reference a renamed
chip design will be resaved to the repository.
- Delete chip design: This lets you attempt to delete the
selected chip design(s). You will be unable to delete chip
design(s) that are referenced by other components.
- Lock or unlock the selected design(s): Locked designs cannot be deleted or modified.
- View the component
references report: This brings up a dialog that gives you a view into
which components reference the selected chip design.
- View XML: Displays the XML file behind the selected chip
dasbhoard...primarily for debugging purposes.
See also