Design Architect

Duration: 3 Days
Part Number: 2041950

Course Overview

The Design Architect tool provides the most comprehensive technology available for Schematic capture and hierarchical design. You will examine every step of the schematic process in lectures; including hierarchical schematic capture, symbol creation and design viewpoint generation as well as library data management. Lab exercises are designed to give you hands-on experience and reinforce the design process steps covered in the lecture.  

You will learn how to

• Create, edit, and add component symbols to a symbol library
• Create and edit a schematic for a hierarchical design
• Create and edit properties on a symbol and schematic
• Add back annotation property values to a design sheet
• Successfully check and save a schematic design
• Perform basic user interface customization procedures

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience in using Design Architect under the guidance of our expert instructors. Hands-on lab topics include:

• Design Architect within the Framework environment
• Creating a schematic symbol and adding properties
• Creating a hierarchical schematic
• Creating functional blocks
• Advanced schematic editing techniques
• Generating and understanding component interfaces and registration
• Generating and understanding schematic interfaces and registration
• Creating design viewpoints and back annotation viewpoints
• Create and understand design objects

Audience

Engineering team members involved in logic design creation.  

Prerequisites

Familiarity with supported workstation environments using Unix sys V and NT operating systems.  

Key Topics

• Design Process Overview
• The Falcon Framework
• Common User Interface
• On-line Documentation
• Design Creation Terminology
• Design Hierarchy
• Design Architect
• The Symbol Editor - Creating a Symbol
• Opening Down into a Component
• Selection Concepts
• Using Strokes to View a Sheet
• Process for Preparing a Schematic
• MGC Libraries
• Placing Symbols on the Schematic
• Drawing Wires
• Properties
• Extracting Information from the Design
• Checking and Saving the Design
• Process for Creating Design Viewpoints
• What is a Viewpoint?
• Annotations
• Creating an Engineering Design Viewpoint
• Connecting Back Annotations Objects
• Display Layers
• Containers and Design Objects
• Library Management
• Default Directory Hierarchy
• Setting up the Editing Environment
• Display Controls