National Instruments Ultiboard

Contents

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