Austin, Propagation Delay is mainly used to verify the length or time between Pin Pairs on a net where as Total Etch Length is used to control the length of the entire net by adding up all the segments. Hope this helps, Michael Catrambone UTStarcom, Inc. "Austin Franklin" <austin 03/06/2005 06:53 PM Please respond to icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Constraint Manager - difference between " Hi Pam, With Min/Max you can specify either a timing delay OR a physical length. Total Etch Length appears to be a subset of Min/Max Propagation Delay, so why have Total Etch Length at all? It has two more columns of info, but they could have put that into the Min/Max spreadsheet... Regards, Austin > -----Original Message----- > From: Loper, Pamela [mailto:x0004363@xxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:46 PM > To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Constraint Manager - difference between " > > > With Min/Max Propagation Delays, you can specify a timing delay (ns) > instead of physical length (mils). With Total Etch Length you can only > specify a physical length (mils). > > Regards, > Pam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Austin Franklin [mailto:austin@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 6:33 PM > To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Constraint Manager - difference between " > > Hi, > > Is there any difference between "Min/Max Propagation Delays" and "Total > Etch > Length", when you can specify length (mils) in the "Min/Max Propagation > Delays" spreadsheet? What is the point of having two spreadsheets if > they > do the same thing? > > Regards, > > Austin > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe/unsubscribe: > Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe > > To view the archives of this list please login at > //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum > or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ > > Problems or Questions: > Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! > Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. > > SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx > POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe/unsubscribe: > Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe > > To view the archives of this list please login at > //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum > or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ > > Problems or Questions: > Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! > Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. > > SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx > POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------------------------------------