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10 Helpful Hints For ADS - 09 - 03

1. The document provides tips for using keyboard shortcuts to speed up schematic creation in ADS, including copying existing components, using a component history window, and customizing hot keys. 2. It recommends learning keyboard shortcuts as an expert user to work more efficiently and avoid repetitive stress injuries from excessive mouse use. 3. Hot key suggestions are given for common schematic editing tasks like viewing, zooming, moving components, and drawing wires.

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10 Helpful Hints For ADS - 09 - 03

1. The document provides tips for using keyboard shortcuts to speed up schematic creation in ADS, including copying existing components, using a component history window, and customizing hot keys. 2. It recommends learning keyboard shortcuts as an expert user to work more efficiently and avoid repetitive stress injuries from excessive mouse use. 3. Hot key suggestions are given for common schematic editing tasks like viewing, zooming, moving components, and drawing wires.

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Using Short Cuts when

Generating Schematics HINT


When you create a schematic,
there are a couple techniques
that can help speed things up:
1. Copy components that you
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have already placed on the
schematic, rather than
placing new ones (using
the menus or palettes)
each time.
2. Enter component names
in the Component History
window. For example, type
R for resistor, and press
Enter. Then place the com-
ponent in the schematic.
You must type in the exact
name of the component you
want; remember that ADS
is case sensitive.
3. Because the Component
History window keeps a
list of the components you
place in the schematic
(after initially opening the
window), if you see that a
particular component is
already in the schematic, Click here to display the drop-down list
you can click the
down-arrow next to the
Component History win-
dow, select the desired
component, and insert the
part in the schematic.

Figure 1. Component History Window with List of Placed Components

9
Learning to Drive Using the Keyboard
HINT
When you first learn to drive
a software program, it is usu-
ally easiest to use the mouse.
As you become more of an
ctrl+o for View/ Push Into Hier-
archy
Use F7 to launch simulations,
and the escape key to termi-
1
expert user, however, it can nate commands.
often be faster to use the key-
board to execute commands. F5 moves component text.
Also, heavy software users who After moving a component, it
rely too much on mouse opera- remains selected. To deselect
tions run the risk of developing it, just click on a blank spot in
repetitive strain injuries. the schematic.

The HP Advanced Design Sys-


tem has many built-in hot keys
(Alt+f, for example, opens the
File menu), and you can cus-
tomize hot keys to perform
operations that you use fre-
quently.
In the Options menu of the
Main window or of a design
window, the command
Menu/Toolbar Configuration
opens the Customization dia-
log box where you can custom-
ize both hot keys and the tool
bar configuration. In the Main
window, you can customize
Main window operations; in a
design window, you can cus-
tomize hot keys for that type of
design (schematic and layout
are set independently).
Hot key suggestions for editing
schematics:
f for View All
d for Redraw View
z for Zoom Area
2 for Zoom Out x2
e for Edit Component Param.
t for Draw (insert) Text
w for Component Wire (draw-
ing wires between components)
m for Move & Disconnect (in
most cases, this is preferable to
the Move command, which
causes wires to remain con-
nected) Figure 1. Setting Schematic Hot Keys

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