Compare Designs

You can compare designs, schematic folders, schematic pages in Capture using the Design Differences dialog box. To access the Design Differences dialog box in Capture, select Tools - Compare Designs.

You can compare two designs, two individual schematic folders or All schematic folders, two individual schematic pages or All schematic pages.

Using the Design Difference dialog box, you can generate either a lightweight HTML or a portable HTML to view the differences. The lightweight HTML requires the Cadence hierarchy on the machine. The portable HTML, which takes more space on the disk than the lightweight HTML, does not require the Cadence hierarchy and can be launched from any machine.

After you click Compare, you can view logical differences and all differences in the Design Difference Summary window. All differences consists of logical and graphical differences. To view details about differences, click the Show Details button in the Design Differences Summary window.

The following is an example of logical differences displayed in the HTML browser. In this example, two different part references are compared.

To view details about all differences, click the Show Details button in the All Differences table of the Design Difference Summary window.

Following is an example of graphical differences displayed in the HTML browser. In this example, the part's location in the first design is different from the part's location in the second design.

Using the Compare Design feature, you can verify if two designs are same part with different occurrence value.

Following is an example of logical differences displayed in the HTML browser. These logical differences display different occurrence values of the same part in two different design.

Importing Component Differences to Microsoft Excel and HTML

To export component differences found in the Compare Designs window for logical and all differences to a Microsoft Excelsheet, click on in the generated Compare Design html file.

Following is an example of an excel export that illustrates exporting of component differences to an .xls file:

Similarly, to export component differences found in the Compare Designs window for logical and all differences to a HTML file, click on in the generated Compare Designs html file.

Following is an example of an HTML export that illustrates exporting of component differences to a HTML file: