Good point but you do not have much control on where these property get attached so if you have nets that span multiple sheets it could be on any of them. One final comment is that the interface is not truly bi-directional, any deleted properties on either side cannot be forward or back annotated so manual deletion is required. "Leonard E Toohey (ltoohey)" <ltoohey 09/09/2004 03:04 PM Please respond to icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Embedded Constraints within a Schematic for use within V15.1 All of the properties can also be backannotated as well. Once again you have to modify the .cfg file to get this to work for your use. -----Original Message----- From: Michael.Catrambone@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Michael.Catrambone@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:57 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Embedded Constraints within a Schematic for use within V15.1 Importance: High Shannon, It can be done successfully.. We have been doing it for many many years as far back as the Workview Office days. You will need to find the Allegro.cfg file and verify that the following lines are in the BeginAttPassList section. The default file that EPD uses may contain some of these already and you may have to add some that are missing. The word NET followed by an Allegro Net property name is all you will need.. Here is an example below: NET BUS_NAME NET ELECTRICAL_CONSTRAINT_SET NET DIFFERENTIAL_PAIR NET ECL NET IMPEDANCE_RULE NET PROPAGATION_DELAY NET RELATIVE_PROPAGATION_DELAY NET MIN_LINE_WIDTH NET MIN_NECK_WIDTH NET ROUTE_PRIORITY NET TOTAL_ETCH_LENGTH NET NET_PHYSICAL_TYPE NET NET_SPACING_TYPE NET MAX_PARALLEL NET VOLTAGE NET MAX_VIA_COUNT NET NC NET NO_TEST We have not moved to EPD 3.1 yet but the process was the same when I was testing EPD 3.0 One of the issues with EPD 3.X is Mentor started to introduce some of the Mentor property names in the attribute editor so it may be confusing at first but simply adding a properties to a wire inside EPD will pass thru to the 3rd party netlist during compile. Beware of using Pin to Pin delays with Relative Prop Delay and Prop Delay because it tends to blow-up during absolute netlist import. If you are going to use propagation delays on buses I would strongly suggest doing it via Constraint Manager in Allegro using Electrical Constraint Sets. Hope this helps, Michael Catrambone UTStarcom, Inc. "Abel, Shannon K." <shannon.abel 09/09/2004 02:17 PM Please respond to icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Embedded Constraints within a Schematic for use within V15.1 We are currently using EPD 3.1 (formerly viewlogic) as a schematic capture program. We are trying to find out how to use the ability to transfer embedded design constraints within the schematic to transfer over to Allegro v15.1. Has anybody had any success with this or even tried it? I believe we need a config file in order to map those constraints (all 128 of them) into allegro. 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