08 - Viewing and Updating Part Status

Use the CIS part manager to view and update the database status of placed parts in your design.

Exploring Part Manager Window

The Part Manager window includes the following tasks:

• Viewing Part Status
• Updating Part Status

Viewing Part Status

To view the part status, you need to open the Part Manager that shows all parts in the design, sorted by part status.

Opening Part Manager

When you open the Part Manager window, CIS generates a report describing the status of your design’s placed parts the last time they were checked against the database parts. If you have changed part properties on any placed parts or placed any non-database parts since the last time you updated part status, the report generated when you open the part manager will not reflect the current status of your design with respect to the database.

To open the part manager, do the following:

1. Open a new or existing schematic design.
2. From the Tools menu, point to Part Manager and choose Open. CIS displays the part manager, showing all parts in the design, sorted by part status.
   

Updating Part Status 

You can update the part status for your design using the part manager. When you update your part status in the part manager, CIS checks all the placed parts in your design against the part database, and updates part properties where necessary.

Any properties that you have assigned to part instances are retained when you update part status for your design, even if they differ from the values in the database.

For example, assume that an AND gate part in your database has a Part Number value of 456 . Suppose that you assign a Part Number value of 123 to an instance of an AND gate in your design. That Part Number value applies only to that particular instance of the AND gate. When you update part status, CIS assigns the Part Number value 456 to all instances of the AND gate except that instance, which retains the value 123.

To update part status for your design, do the following:

1. Open a new or existing schematic design.
2. Update the part status for specific parts or for your entire design.
   To update the part status for specific parts, select the parts in the project manager window and from the part manager’s Tools menu, choose Update Selected Part Status.
   To update the part status for your entire design, do one of the following:
   • From the Tools menu, point to Part Manager and choose Update.
   • From the part manager’s Tools menu, choose Update Part Status.

   
   CIS checks each placed part against the database part to which it is linked. The part database is searched for the Part Number property that matches the placed part, then transferred properties that are configured to be updated are compared.
   If you want to make sure that none of your parts have been modified since they were placed from their original libraries, from the Options menu in part manager, point to Update Part Status and choose Verify Parts Against Libraries (.OLB). Then, when you update part status, any placed part with a different timestamp than its library part will be flagged yellow.

   If you turn on the Verify Parts Against Libraries (.OLB) option when you have placed parts in the design using a previous version of CIS (Release 9.0 or earlier), all parts placed from the previous Capture libraries will have mismatched timestamps and be flagged yellow. If you get an undesirable result, turn off the Verify Parts Against Libraries (.OLB) option and update part status again.

   For each placed part that is not current, you are prompted with the Update Part dialog box. This dialog box lets you decide whether or not you want to update the placed part properties with the transferred properties from the database part.

   
   The first row lists the database part and its properties, and the second row lists the placed part and its properties. The differences between the database part and placed part are highlighted in red.

3. Click one of the following buttons:

   Button	Action
   Yes	Update the placed part.
   Yes All	Update all placed parts whose properties don’t match the database part properties.
   No	Not update the placed part.
   No all	Not update any of the placed parts whose properties don’t match the database part properties.

When complete, a list of updated parts and discrepancies with the database is written to the session log. Then, the part manager window displays the updated part status. The Part Status column contains both text and color-coded icons that indicate whether your placed part is linked to a part in a part database. The following table lists all the possible status conditions and what the each status condition means.

If your configuration specifies that CIS assign temporary part numbers automatically, each status is preceded by either Temporary Part (if the placed part number prefix is the temporary part number prefix) or Approved Part.

When the status of all the parts in your design is Current, you are ready to generate a report such as a bill of materials.

Once you have updated part status, the part manager also includes tips for parts with a red icon status. The tips give more detail about the part’s status and about placed part properties that do not match the database part properties. To display a tip, point briefly over the status column.

To remove variant properties from a linked component, do the following:

1. In the part manager tree view, select the group or subgroup folder that contains the part you want to change.
2. In the part manager list view, select the component from which you want to remove linked properties.
3. From the part manager window’s Edit menu, choose Revert to Common. The check mark no longer appears next to the component, indicating that the linked properties have been removed.

Saving the Status Report

You can save the contents of the part manager window to a text (.PRP) file. The report file is saved (in the current sort order) in tab-delimited format which can be edited with a spreadsheet program or word processor.

To save a status report, choose one of the following options: