User Guide

Connectors
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Creating Single-Pin Connector Symbols
When creating a connector pin symbol, you must correctly
define the connector package for the layout netlist to be
correct. For example, in creating a 62-pin edge connector,
instead of creating a single symbol for a 62-pin edge
connector with all 62 pins, you can create a symbol of a
single connector pin and attach to it
PKGREF and GATE
attributes (created and assigned when the symbol is
placed). You would then assign the attribute values for
each instance of the pin to make the correct pin
assignment to the connector. Each pin in the connector is
the equivalent of a single gate in a multi-gate package.
Therefore, by assigning to each connector pin instance a
specific combination of
PKGREF and GATE attribute values,
you can define the wiring of the connector in the layout.