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Create Symbols: 1. Create Cell View - From Cell View

The document discusses how to create symbols for cells in schematics by generating them from cell views, specifying pin locations, and then using a symbol editor menu to draw shapes to design a meaningful symbol like an inverter.

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Create Symbols: 1. Create Cell View - From Cell View

The document discusses how to create symbols for cells in schematics by generating them from cell views, specifying pin locations, and then using a symbol editor menu to draw shapes to design a meaningful symbol like an inverter.

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Create Symbols

Every cell needs a symbol. Symbols allow one to instantiate them in the higher level schematics and
make them more readable.
1.

From the Create menu in the schematic window, select Cell view -> From Cell view

A pop-up window will appear. Make sure that Cell Name should be same as the schematic name. Then
click OK.

We will see Symbol Generation Options, which is for specifying location of the pins in the symbol. We
can keep the default of pins location or change them.
After selecting pins and clicking OK, a Symbol Editor window will show up as follows:
We are able to use this symbol in our design. But we must create a more meaningful symbol. For an
inverter, it should look something like shown below. How do you get to that symbol view? Use a menu
circled in the window. There you have options to draw triangles, squares, and rectangles and
manipulate the geometry of your symbols. It is a good practice to make all your symbols of standard
cells of the same size.

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