National Instruments Graphical User Interface Ultiboard, User Manual

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Contents
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Placing a Bus ...................................................................................................5-5
Working with Density Bars .............................................................................5-6
Working with Keep-in/Keep-out Areas...........................................................5-7
Placing Keep-in/Keep-out Areas ......................................................5-7
Viewing and Editing Keep-in/Keep-out Properties ..........................5-7
Equi-Spacing Traces........................................................................................5-9
Deleting a Trace ..............................................................................................5-9
Working with Other Copper Elements ..........................................................................5-10
Placing Copper Areas ......................................................................................5-10
Placing Powerplanes........................................................................................5-11
Splitting Copper...............................................................................................5-11
Converting a Copper Shape to an Area ...........................................................5-12
Deleting All Copper ........................................................................................5-12
Adding and Removing Teardrops ...................................................................5-13
Viewing and Editing Copper Properties ........................................................................5-13
Working with Vias.........................................................................................................5-15
Placing Vias.....................................................................................................5-15
Viewing and Editing Via Properties................................................................5-16
Placing SMD Fanouts ....................................................................................................5-18
Working with Nets.........................................................................................................5-19
Using the Nets Tab ..........................................................................................5-19
Using the Netlist Editor ...................................................................................5-20
Adding a Net .....................................................................................5-21
Renaming a Net.................................................................................5-25
Deleting a Net ...................................................................................5-25
Deleting a Pin from a Net .................................................................5-26
Setting Net Widths ............................................................................5-26
Setting High Speed Parameters.........................................................5-26
Setting Miscellaneous Net Parameters..............................................5-27
Setting Group Parameters .................................................................5-27
Setting Via Parameters......................................................................5-28
Highlighting a Net ...........................................................................................5-28
Shielding Nets .................................................................................................5-28
Net Bridges ......................................................................................................5-30
Creating a Net Bridge .......................................................................5-30
Placing a Net Bridge .........................................................................5-32
Copying a Copper Route .................................................................................5-33
Swapping Pins and Gates...............................................................................................5-34
Swapping Pins .................................................................................................5-34
Swapping Gates ...............................................................................................5-35
Automatic Pin/Gate Swapping ........................................................................5-38
Real-Time Pin/Gate Swapping ........................................................................5-39