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Blanket & Component Classes
« on: April 17, 2018, 12:42:47 pm »
Hello

I have an odd question. I know you can use a Blanket directive to easily group nets, but can you do the same with components?

What I am trying to do is create a custom rule for thermal relief for components that are part of a certain class (PowerPath). Rather than adding a ClassName to each component I tried to enclose them in a Blanket but it's not working as enclosing them in a Blanket only groups the Nets each component is connected to.

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Re: Blanket & Component Classes
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2018, 11:38:54 am »
UPDATE: At the end of the day I decided to add a parameter for each component and had a rule see what that parameter holds. Here is what I mean:

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Re: Blanket & Component Classes
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2018, 07:57:40 pm »
Last I checked, no, there was no facility to use blankets to attach directives to components.  I think there's a request on bugcrunch to implement this.  Depending on what you're after, you might be able to use a room to control the rule, but rooms are kind of a pain IMO, and definitely won't work well if the relevant components aren't placed within a neat little box.
 

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Re: Blanket & Component Classes
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2018, 10:17:44 pm »
Classes yes.  Add parameter name = "ClassName" to the component, value is whatever ComponentClass name you want.

Doing it by custom parameter in AD18, as shown, looks pretty nice too :)

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