Design Architect

Course Highlights

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

• 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

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