User Guide
Chapter 7 Creating and Editing Hierarchical Designs
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connected to, is created for each hidden pin. Hidden
pins are especially useful for global power and ground
on digital parts ($G_DPWR, $G_DGND).
Symbolizing a schematic
1 Open the schematic.
2 From the File menu, select Symbolize to display the
Save As dialog box.
3 Type the name of the symbol.
4 Click OK.
A file selection dialog box prompts for a symbol
library to save the symbol in.
5 Select a library.
6 Click OK.
When you symbolize a schematic, the resulting symbol is
hierarchical (that is, it will have a schematic associated
with it, so you can push into the symbol and view that
schematic).
After you have symbolized your schematic, you need to
make the symbols in your new symbol library available to
PSpice Schematics.
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