XSCH(1)

💖 xsch — the manual page, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, welcome to XSCH(1), straight out of the ALLIANCE Reference Manual — this is the page for xsch, your new fave graphical schematic viewer. grab a boba, we're going in 🧋✨

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🌈 NAME 🌈

xsch — graphical schematic viewer 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xsch [-l file_name] [-xor] [-install] [-force] [-I input_format] [-slide
file_name ...]

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🦋 ORIGIN 🦋

This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, developed by the ASIM team at the LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. 🇫🇷

Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/

E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Xsch is a graphical schematic viewer. All the functionnalities can be accessed through different menus — you don't have to memorize anything, it's all just right there. 🫶

Xsch works under Motif and X11r6. The moment you enter Xsch, the main window appears and shows 5 different menus on the top bar. You get into these menus by simply clicking the mouse left button. Here's the whole rundown of those menus, no gatekeeping:

• File
  • Open : load an existing file. Note that a file with the same name and the extention .xsc can be used to attach special colors and comments to all displayed objects (see below for details). 👀
  • Quit : quit xsch. 😭
• Edit
  • Identify : identify a selected object.
  • Connected : highlight a selected object.
  • Search : search an object by its name.
• View
  • Zoom : perform zoom in, zoom out, center, fit, refresh on figure.
  • Layer : select types of layers displayed.
  • Map : show cursor position in the entire figure.
  • Arrows : show arrows for moving at the grid step.
  • Grid : Set the X,Y step of the grid if displayed.
• Tools
  • Hierarchy : enable user to browse into the design hierarchy.
  • Message : display the last error messages.
• Setup
  • Save or load a user defined configuration of default displayed menus.

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🎀 SPECIAL KEYS 🎀

• +/- — Next or previous file in slide mode. literally the easiest navigation ever, periodt.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -l file_name — Load the file file_name (with or without extention).
• -xor — Two graphic cursor methods can be used, invert or xor.
• -force — this option force all graphical objects to be displayed.
• -install — Switch to a private color map.
• -I input_format — Specifies the input format (vst(5), al(5), vbe(5)).
• -slide file_name ... — Enables slide mode, all specifies files will be displayed one by one using keys +/- in the graphic window.

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🌸 XSC FILE FORMAT 🌸

okay so this is the part where you get to ✨customize✨ your schematic. here's the whole example, verbatim, don't touch a single character:

# Example of .xsc file
#
# To attach a particular color and comment to a box :
# B:box_name:color:comment
# color is an integer from 0 to 32, or -1 for no_color
# comment is a string
B:my_box:0:this box should be blue
B:another_box:-1:this won't change the box color
#
# To attach a particular color and comment to a net :
# N:net_name:color:comment
N:my_net:15:this net should be green
#
# To attach a particular color and comment to a connector :
# C:connector_name:color:comment
C:my_con:32:this connector should be red
#
# To attach a particular color and comment to a path :
# P:from_name:net_name:to_name:color:comment
P:my_con:my_net:my_box:15:this path should be green

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🍓 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🍓

• MBK_CATA_LIB — indicates the path to the read only libraries to be used.
• MBK_WORK_LIB — indicates the path to the read directory for the session.
• MBK_IN_LO — indicates the file format to be used.
• XSCH_PARAM_NAME (optional) — indicates the path to the parameter file used by Xsch.

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

mbk(1), MBK_CATA_LIB(1), MBK_WORK_LIB(1), PAT(5), asimut(1)

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💀 BUG REPORT 💀

This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory.

We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. 🫶 so like, please actually tell them things, bestie, they're asking nicely.

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ngl that's the whole page, no cap. go forth and view some schematics, you're the main character of this terminal 💅✨

ASIM/LIP6 — September 1, 2000 — and that's the vibe check, signed, sealed, delivered, XSCH(1) out. 🎀💖