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Analyzing the Synthesized Design
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Click OK to invoke the selected DRC checks.
Viewing DRC Violations
Once completed, the DRC Results view will appear.
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Figure 8-49:
DRC Results
Each violation is expanded in the DRC Results view. Errors display a red icon. Warnings
display an amber icon. Informational messages display a yellow icon.
By default all errors and warnings are displayed. Click the Hide Warning and Information
Messages toolbar button to hide all warnings and info messages and view only errors.
Click the toolbar button again to view all errors and warnings once again.
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Figure 8-50:
Hide Warning and Information Messages Button
Select an error in the DRC Results view list, and the specific violation information is
displayed in the Properties view. Select a blue link in the Properties view to highlight the
violating design elements in the Device view, Netlist view and Schematic view.
Violations will no longer be displayed in the DRC Results view after the error condition is
rectified and the DRC check is rerun.
Each time the Run DRC command is run and errors are detected, a new results tab is added
to the DRC Results view. A separate results output file is also created in the PlanAhead
invocation directory.
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