User Guide

Chapter 7 Creating and Editing Hierarchical Designs
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Associating an Existing Schematic
Instead of pushing into the block to create a schematic (see
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hierarchical block.
Associating an existing schematic with a hierarchical block
1 Select the Draw block button.
2 Place the block and be sure it stays selected.
3 From the Navigate menu, select Push to display the
Set Up Block dialog box.
4 In the Filename text box, enter the name of the existing
schematic to be associated with this block.
5 Click OK.
When you associate an existing schematic with a new
block, pins will be automatically created on the block for
each interface port on the sub-schematic.
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