VXL Q: Wire Editing Without The Jogs?

[Edward]

I'm using VXL's wonderful wire-editor to make some quick connections,
but for some reason this tool likes to insert random tiny jogs in what
would otherwise be perfectly straight routes. I could understand a
jog or two near the end of route when the tool is making its final
approach to an instance terminal, but why would it do this in wide-
open channels? More importantly, does anyone know the magic for
turning this "feature" off?

Edward

 

[vlsidesign]

On Apr 23, 4:41 pm, Edward <edward.do...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using VXL's wonderful wire-editor to make some quick connections,
but for some reason this tool likes to insert random tiny jogs in what
would  otherwise be perfectly straight routes. I could understand a
jog or two near the end of route when the tool is making its final
approach to an instance terminal,  but why would it do this in wide-
open channels?  More importantly,  does anyone know the magic for
turning this "feature" off?

Edward

My understanding is the following:

Cadence bought IC craftsman tool some time ago, and integrated into
their tools and called into VCR and CCAR. The tool in order to work
has to have certain rules and constraints setup, otherwise it seems to
misbehave and do strange things. The VCR and CCAR tool works
beautiful, but I haven't been able to justify the time in trying to
get some of the wire-editor features (where it completes the path
automatically) to work at this venture because it seemed like it was
somewhat buggy, and it was slow, or at least when I looked into it
about a year ago.