The design connectivity model is incrementally updated after each user operation through dynamic compilation. Related article: Compiling and Verifying the Design There is also a tool in the PCB editor to replicate the placement and routing of one channel across all other channels, with the ability to move and re-orient an entire channel easily. You have full access to the standard cross-probing and cross-selecting tools available for working between the schematic and the PCB. When you transfer it to the PCB layout, the physical components and nets are automatically stepped out the required number of times. The logical design that you capture is never actually flattened, the source always remains as a multi-channel schematic. When the design is automatically compiled, it is expanded out in memory, with all components and connectivity repeated the required number of times, in accordance with a user-defined channel naming scheme. In a multi-channel design, you capture the repeated circuit once, then instruct the software to repeat it the required number of times. The two decoder channels of a video multiplexer, using a multi-channel design structure means the decoder channel is only captured once. This type of design is fully supported by a feature set known as multi-channel design. It might be a stereo amplifier, or it might be a 64-channel mixing desk. It is not unusual for an electronic design to include repeated sections of circuitry. Parent page: Capturing Your Design Idea as a Schematic Parametric Multi-Channel Hierarchical Design.

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