Don’t we love the new features that make our favorite products even more cool? At times, small, but smart UX enhancements give us a better experience. Be it a simpler way to change the phone settings, a new banking menu to add multiple beneficiaries in one go, or a location sensor added to a cab-booking or food-ordering app, all of us welcome such simple design innovations that make our tasks easier and quicker. At Cadence, we understand that user experience is an important factor for the success of a product, so we continually strive to make it better. Here, I introduce you to two new features in Virtuoso® ADE Assembler that will improve your interactions with tests. Customizing the Transition from ADE Assembler to ADE Explorer If you frequently switch between Virtuoso® ADE Assembler and Virtuoso® ADE Explorer to edit the setup or to run simulations, you may like to use this feature that allows you to apply the standard, double-click command, which opens an item in GUI applications, to the tests in ADE Assembler. This means, you can now double-click a test name in the Data View assistant to open it for editing in ADE Explorer. By default, you double-click a test to edit its name. If you would like to personalize the double-click command for test editing, set the following environment variable: envSetVal("maestro.gui" "openExplorerOnTestDoubleClicked" 'boolean t) Tip: If you change the result of the double-click command, how will you edit the test name? You can still do that in ADE Explorer. Double-click the test name in the Setup assistant and change it. Avoiding Inadvertent Deletion of Tests and Corners This is another enhancement that allows you to confirm that you are deleting the correct test or corner. If you ever deleted tests or corners unintentionally, and realized that there was no way to get those back or undo the action, this feature would be a great help for such situations. To enable this feature, set the following environment variable: envSetVal("maestro.gui" "confirmBeforeTestOrCornerDelete" 'boolean t) ...and every time you are about to delete a test or a corner, ADE Explorer and ADE Assembler will prompt you to confirm if you would like to proceed with the deletion. We are very confident that these simple, yet useful enhancements can help you handle the tests more smartly. Well then, try out these enhancements yourself and let us know if they make your test-handling much easier. Related Resources Virtuoso ADE Assembler User Guide openExplorerOnTestDoubleClicked Virtuoso ADE Explorer User Guide confirmBeforeTestOrCornerDelete For more information on Cadence circuit design products and services, visit www.cadence.com . About Virtuosity Virtuosity has been our most viewed and admired blog series for a long time that has brought to the fore some lesser known, yet very useful, software and documentation improvements, and also shed light on some exciting new offerings in Virtuoso. We are now expanding the scope of this series by broadcasting the voice of different bloggers and experts, who will continue to preserve the legacy of Virtuosity, and try to give new dimensions to it by covering topics across the length and breadth of Virtuoso, and a lot more… Click Subscribe to visit the Subscription box at the top of the page in which you can submit your email address to receive notifications about our latest Virtuosity posts. Happy Reading! Namrata Malhotra![]()
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