Mentor no longer includes a DxDesigner Tutorial in their release. See the tech note below. The vdrawtut.pdf doc is there, but the tutorial directory does not...
The original tutorial for Viewdraw/Innoveda was done by Trilogic Inc. (www.trilogic.com) and person name Chuck Mcginley. Call them and they will sell you a...
IMO, you should not have to "buy" a basic tutorial, it should be included with a product like this. If the doc (.pdf) is there, then the tutorial should be...
Nope, it's not there. We have version 2004. The tech note I attached in my first email is from Mentor Graphics Online SupportNet. They took the turorial out. I...
Another suggestion I have is to ask them for previous version of the tool. The later licenses typically run with the earlier tools. That would get you the...
Anyone else having this problem? The Xref attribute is not being assigned to nets with inverted net labels. I believe this was also a bug in EPD 3.1. I guess...
There are some "tutorials" available here: http://www.atclassnow.com/acustomer/innoveda_tot_java/menu_intro.htm The PADS2004 CD had some tours attached. They...
Courtesy of the Mentor Application Engineers, we have a couple of new scripts uploaded. I personally have not yet checked out all the available features these...
Just a quickie. Where do I find a PADS library with standard stuff like transistors (npn, pnp, mosfet, etc), fuses, switches, etc. I really expected these to...
Anyone else having this problem? there is a schematics with a composite symbol, while creating its pcb netlist, I always got the following error informations: ...
What PKG_TYPE attribute did you give to those components? Maybe the problem is with the attribute syntax? Benny ... To: DxDesigner_Users@yahoogroups.com From:...
This bug is causing me big problems. Not only does it not assign xref to nets with inverted net labels, but if they are already there it removes them. The bug...
Check your symbol attributes, you should not leave a blank attribute value in the symbol design even if you fill out the attribute value at the SCHEMATIC...
The error: pcb: Note 6057: tstteamworksch1 sym CAPACITORS:CAP: PKG_TYPE=: Bad attribute value is informing you that the attribute PKG_TYPE has an illegal...
Hi all, I'm currently looking for products that can mix schematic and vhdl designs. I know that DxDesigner can do it but I the steps from design to synthesis...
Hi, Ok, now that makes sense. You have to add some attributes to the symbol...these should be documented if you do a help on VHDL, and you also have to change...
Ok, thanks.. So far so good. I created my symbol and linked it to the vhdl file. My main concern was with the synthesizer... Anyway, I'll follow you're...
... Maybe good for a quick fix, but not recommended for a long-term solution because: - There will be layout or other tools out there that don't like handling...
I would like to use Scout but have not been able to get it to cross reference nets in a schematic. I have succeeded in using the direct_reference command to ...
Hello Everyone, Thanks for your kindly instructions. The problem has been solved in PADs-Designer. In fact, for the same schematics with same symbols and...
This service pack contains numerous defect fixes and combines the PADS2004a and PADS2004b releases into a single release. Also Mentor has decided to seperate...
The missing keyword PARTTYPE happens often enough to be a nussance on backannotation for both DX and PADS-Designer. It's something in the ASC file that isn't...