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1. RO EU Installation amp Technical Support User s Guide e Printed on recycled paper Electronic Design Automation Tools Installation amp Technical Support User s Guide Copyright O 1991 OrCAD Inc All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced translated into another language stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written consent of OrCAD Inc Every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this publication OrCAD assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein OrCAD is registered trademark of OrCAD Inc IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation TIGA is a trademark of Texas Instruments Incorporated All other brand and product names mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders Fifth Edition 15 December 1992 OrCAD NO 3175 NW Aloclek Drive Hillsboro Oregon 97124 7135 Sales amp Administration 503 690 9881 Technical Support 503 690 9722 24 Hour Bulletin Board System 503 690 9791 FAX 503 690 9891 CONTENTS Thank c 1 Chapter 1 Installation ae aan 3 Getting ready to install OrCAD soft2. It s the template You ll see it for the first time when you start ESP after installation The title TEMPLATE Design displays in the top center of your screen The template design is a set of patterns ESP uses to create new designs Anything added to or taken away from the template will be added to or withheld from designs you make in the future using ESP s Create Design tool Changes you make to configurations in the template become part of all new designs too Installation amp Technical Support Guide Messages from DOS Not enough disk space When you install Schematic Design Tools eight files are placed in the template To see the list select Edit file from the Schematic Design Tools screen Other files are added when you install other OrCAD products To find out more about these files and how ESP uses them see Chapter 5 Design environment technical information in your OrCAD ESP Design Environment User s Guide Here are some tips for making the best use of the template Remember the TEMPLATE design is just that a template for new designs To save disk space only files that you want to include in every design you create should be copied into TEMPLATE If hard disk space is at a premium on your system keep the number of files in TEMPLATE to a minimum If you use certain configurations routinely make these settings in TEMPLATE They will automatically become part of every new design eliminating the need t
3. Notice the headings Name Table Location and Symbolic Data Location at the bottom of the Library Options area 3 Select the desired location for each of these tables The next section discusses the performance impacts of the different configurations 45 Installation amp Technical Support Guide 46 Performance impacts Depending on the location of the on line library s name and symbolic data tables you can expect the performance impacts listed below This list is given in order of efficiency The most efficient configuration is given first the least efficient is given last Name table in main memory and symbolic data table in EMS Draft s GET and LIBRARY Browse commands execute fastest under this configuration Name table in EMS memory and symbolic data table in EMS The GET and LIBRARY Browse commands may be slightly slower than in the first configuration However you can add additional EMS memory to get as many parts on line as possible Name table in main memory and symbolic data table on disk The GET and LIBRARY Browse commands are even slower but are still tolerable This is the best option for PCs without EMS Name table in EMS memory and symbolic data table on disk This configuration should only be used for the following special cases e Very large designs E size canes with a large number of parts e PCs with a small amount of EMS memory e PCs with a small amount of available main memory This
4. columns and rows you enter Standard EGA VGA values normally have AH most significant byte of the word AX equal to 0 and AL least significant byte of AX equal to either 10 EGA 640x350 or 12 VGA 640x480 Hence AX 0010H or 0012H for these Extended EGA cards often use AL 12H for 640x480 mode The register values for sizes above 640x480 vary considerably In addition certain cards want to see a value for AH that is not 0 A value to be assigned to BX to set up for an interrupt 10H The value entered must be a hexadecimal number Interrupt 10H is the BIOS video interrupt Many technical references for the PC discuss this interrupt in detail 21 Color palette Installation amp Technical Support Guide If you want special information to display while the driver is initializing enter the text at the Identifi cation displayed during driver initialization Driver Name prompt The color palette displays Make any desired changes to the color palette as described in the next section and then press lt U gt Enter a filename for the new driver Gendrive writes the new driver to the disk and exits Using the EGA VGA Palette Definition menu you can assignments change color options for the driver you are creating As shown in the figure below the menu at the bottom of the screen tells you what commands are available A GENDRIVE EGA VGA Palet Normal Color Black Blue Green Cyan Red Magenta
5. field contains an embedded comma the usual field delimiter you must enclose the field in either single or double quotes Examples EGA 640x350 16 color No quotes needed EGA 640x350 16 color Quotes required EGA 640x350 16 color Quotes optional EGA 640x350 16 color Quotes optional Columns is the number of columns of pixels the display supports Enter this number in decimal E Examples 640 752 800 Rows is the number of rows of pixels that the display supports Enter this number in decimal Examples 350 480 600 AX value is the value to be MOVed into AX before doing an INT 10H to initialize the card Enter this number in hexadecimal Hexadecimal is used here because most manuals show the numbers in hex Examples 0010H 0012H Example Drivers for DGIS and TIGA displays About the TIGA display driver Chapter 3 Display drivers 9 BX value is the value to be MOVed into BX before doing an INT 10H to initialize the card Enter this number in hexadecimal Again hexadecimal is used here because most manuals show the numbers in hex Examples OH 0012H The latter value causes 640x480 modes for some extended EGA cards Here is a mode specification for a Genoa SuperEGA EGA 640x480 graphics adapter card GENOA SuperEGA EGA 640x480 16 color 640 480 73H OH To see the most current listing of graphics display drivers supported by Gendrive use the DOS TYPE command to display the fi
6. of the problems for other OrCAD customers and coordinate solutions with the card s manufacturer Before beginning production work test your TIGA environment by following these steps 1 Set your system up installing or checking the TIGA hardware and software and running diagnostics supplied by the adapter manufacturer 2 At the DOS prompt enter CHKDSK Make a note of the bytes free value 3 Configure your OrCAD application to use either the TIGA1 DRV or TIGA2 DRV display driver Run your OrCAD application Exit the OrCAD application Enter CHKDSK again The bytes free value should be unchanged Run the OrCAD application Select Suspend to System Is the screen readable Enter EXIT to get back to the application Is the application readable 10 Repeat steps 7 and 8 several times checking that the screen is readable after each command 11 Exit the application 35 Installation amp Technical Support Guide Drivers for specific displays Changing display drivers from DOS 36 12 Enter CHKDSK again and note the bytes free value If CHKDSK reports the same value for bytes free each time and the screen is readable after each operation then the probability of the system hanging is low If the system hangs or you get a message such as Time Out waiting for Command Buffer please report the last task you performed to OrCAD Technical Support Other drivers for specific display
7. to see if at least two 16K pages of EMS are available If they are it loads its display driver into EMS If the design environment and an OrCAD tool set use the same display driver it only needs to be loaded once This removes the display driver from the lower 640K of memory providing more lower memory for the OrCAD tool set When you exit ESP and return to the DOS operating system all EMS used by the design environment and OrCAD tool sets are released The EMS then becomes available for other applications 43 Installation amp Technical Support Guide A NOTE Expanded memory is Extended sometimes confused Memory with extended Simply added on memory Extended to existing 1 Expanded Memory memory is memo Pegabye of i ry ry main memory 16K pages of memory above the one swapped in and out of existing 1 megabyte of main memory megabyte of main memory while expanded memory is memory that is 16K slot swapped into and E out of the one megabyte of main memory Release 16K slot IV software does not use extended memory PC memory allocation EMS in Schematic Schematic Design Tools 286 uses two types of libraries the Design Tools 286 active library and the on line library Both libraries contain a name table and a symbolic data table The name table is a list of parts The symbolic data table contains symbolic information about each part The figure at the bottom of this page shows the active library
8. twenty four hour access to the Bulletin Board System call 503 690 9791 The services poem by the Bulletin Board System are New releases of software updates for printers plotters graphic cards and libraries Technical notes and a database answering the most frequently asked questions Replies to technical support questions you post to the bulletin board 4 General information about OrCAD mail from other OrCAD users and custom libraries drivers and utilities contributed by our customers System requirements Configuration Bulletin Board System maintenance Logon instructions Chapter 2 Technical support To access the OrCAD bulletin board you need A300 1200 or 2400 baud modem set for eight data bits one stop bit and no parity Any communications software You may wish to use software which supports ANSI graphics Set your communications software to send and receive data using an error correcting protocol such as XMODEM YMODEM SEAlink KERMIT or SuperKERMIT These protocols send or receive binary information or data containing control characters You can also send plain ASCII files to and receive from the bulletin board The bulletin board operates twenty four hours a day except when it is shut down for maintenance If you are not able to establish communications after a few rings the bulletin board may be down for maintenance and you should call back later The first time you log on to th
9. 0 graphics chips Most have announced their intention to provide TIGA support OrCAD supplies the TIGA driver directly but the other required software the TI software and the TIGA System Driver is supplied by the manufacturer of your display adapter You may have to specially request this software from the display adapter s manufacturer or dealer TIGA lets OrCAD support a wide range of display resolutions with one piece of software To support these display adapters with standard drivers would mean creating drivers that are much slower than our current drivers Running flexible code on a processor faster than the host processor lets OrCAD offer flexibility without performance degradation With the current version of TIGA and a TI 34010 board most OrCAD software runs at about as fast as with the best VGA and Super VGA cards Future versions of TIGA could improve on this Future versions of TIGA or TIGA with a TI 34020 could be perceptibly faster than VGA OrCAD s TIGA driver Manufacturers of 34010 34020 boards with TIGA support Chapter 3 Display drivers On higher resolution displays OrCAD software normally does not draw bigger objects on the screen but instead draws more objects Given the same technology each object takes the same time to draw Higher resolution therefore usually means a longer redraw time but with fewer redraws OrCAD software minimizes redraw time since it is an important first order determiner of us
10. Brown Dark Gray Light Gray Light Blue Light Green Light Cyan Light Red Light Magenta Yellow Black White NOTE Although the color palette is easy to change you probably only should change it to compensate for poor lighting To skip to the next screen press Q te Definition Current Color Black Blue Green Cyan Red Magenta Brown Dark Gray Light Gray Light Blue Light Green Light Cyan Light Red Light Magenta Yellow Black White 16 Border H Help 0 16 Change that Index Q Abandon Redefinition R Reverse Color Selection gt U Use Settings Above M Reverse Mono 1 15 gt 0 N Reset to Normal Gendrive s EGA VGA Palette Definition menu 22 Chapter 3 Display drivers These three commands let you change the color palette 9 0 16 Change that Index Lets you re assign a color according to your preference You can re assign any of the sixteen colors plus background In addition to letting you tailor the appearance of the display to match your personal preferences this command also lets you map red or other dim colors to brighter colors when using a projection device for presentations or review meetings lt R gt Reverse Color Changes black and white but leaves other color assignments alone The background and border are white the text and the cursor are black This mode is useful in environments with lots of glare or if you find switching between black characters
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13. adapters display when you install OrCAD software You can also obtain a list of available drivers and the drivers themselves from OrCAD If you are buying a relatively new graphics card call Technical Support We may have your new driver in development Applied Data Systems ADS was among the first to develop a driver for OrCAD This driver ADSVECTR DRV runs with a RISC processor on their board Check the READ ME file on your ADS software disks for more information about the ADS driver If the display driver you select when you install ESP is incompatible with your monitor or the display driver is unspecified your display may not be function correctly You need to change display drivers from DOS To change display drivers from DOS follow these steps 1 Change to the DOS directory C ORCAD TEMPLATE 2 Use a text editor to edit the text file ESP CFG 3 Change the line that starts with DD to DD DisplayDriver Where DisplayDriver is the name of the appropriate display driver CHAPTER 4 Ni License I Definitions This License Agreement constitutes the complete agreement between you and OrCAD If you do not agree to the terms of this Agreement do not open the disk package Promptly return the unopened disk package and all other materials including manuals binders and any written materials that are part of this product to OrCAD for a full refund A OrCAD shall mean OrCAD L P 3175 N W Aloclek Drive Hil
14. an be equipped with any of a wide array of display adapters The information in this chapter is arranged so that the most common adapters are discussed first If you have one of the more common adapters skim the rest of the chapter If you have a more complex adapter and have it working with the manufacturer supplied software you should be able to easily understand the technical notes in this chapter A display driver is a program which processes a graphic drawing request from an OrCAD program so that it works on a specific display adapter That is a driver lets you see what the program wants you to see on your monitor OrCAD supplies a large set of display drivers that support a wide variety of display adapters Each driver is optimized either to give the best possible performance or to give very good performance with some flexibility You specify the display driver you need on the Configure ESP screen and on the configuration screens for each of the OrCAD design tools Depending on the flexibility of your display adapter and monitor you may wish to use different drivers for different applications 15 Installation amp Technical Support Guide Drivers for standard display modes 16 OrCAD display drivers can be grouped into these categories each of which is discussed in more detail in this chapter Drivers that support standard display modes including EGA VGA and Hercules Monochrome Graphics Drivers that support S
15. can be caused by running multi _tasking software or a large network driver Performance in this configuration is degraded compared to the above configurations but is still acceptable Name table on disk and symbolic data table on disk This is the slowest configuration It should only be used with portable computers that have only 512K main memory It is tolerable for long use only if the hard disk is fast Refer to pages 15 and 16 in the Schematic Design Tools Reference Guide for more information about the performance impacts of the different configurations Viewing EMS memory allocation in Draft EMS in Digital Simulation Tools 286 Configuring EMS for use with Digital Simulation Tools Appendix A OrCAD Release IV products and EMS The CONDITIONS command in Draft displays the amount of EMS and main memory used by the active library and the on line library To view this data simply select CONDITIONS from Draft s main menu When you are done viewing this information press any key to return to Draft s main menu NOTE The CONDITIONS command displays information about the active library and the reference library The reference library is the same as the on line library The Simulate tool looks for EMS in the 384K portion of main memory between 640K and 1 megabyte If a 64K block is available Simulate uses it Any additional 16K slots between 640K and 1 megabyte are also used The number of available slots is
16. ch of these cards These cards are currently supported AHEADIK DRV ATI1K DRV CHIPS1K DRV GEN641K DRV GENOA1K DRV TECMARIK DRV TRI1K DRV TSENG1K DRV Ahead Systems Wizard Video Graphics Adapter ATI VGA WONDER version 4 and later of the chip Supports cards using Chips and Technology Super VGA chips Genoa SuperVGA 6400 cards Use GENOAIK DRV with Genoa 5400 cards Supports Genoa SuperVGA cards in 1024x768 mode The card is based on the Tseng Labs EV3000 chip OrCAD supports mode 37H because many cards with the Tseng Labs chip have BIOS s that use this mode Verify if your board uses a Tseng Labs chip or your manual mentions a mode 37H which supports 1024x768 and 16 colors Use GEN641K DRV with Genoa 6400 cards The following companies use the Tseng Labs chip set Sigma Designs VGA H NANAO EIZO SOTA VGA 16 and Orchid ProDesigner Supports TECMAR VGA AD in 1024x768 mode Supports cards that use the Zymos Poach Set Tseng Labs ET4000 Graphic chip sets Originally developed with an Orchid ProDesigner II card 17 Installation amp Technical Support Guide 18 ws VEGA1K DRV Supports Video 7 VRAM cards with 512KB of memory Also supports Headlands 1024i cards WDIK DRV Western Digital WD90C00 Chip set Supports Paradise cards capable of doing 1024x768 NOTE 1024x768 in 16 colors requires more than 256K of display memory Some display adapters that can do 1024x768 ar
17. checking for adapter compatibility If the video adaptor and the new driver are not compatible you may see either a blank screen or a screen that displays random patterns If you select one of the predefined driver configurations this shouldn t happen to you but if it does you may need to re boot your computer to get back to the system prompt Defining a special display driver Chapter 3 Display drivers To define a special display driver you need to know some technical information about your display Refer to the technical reference or programmer s reference section in your display adapter s manual as you complete step 1 1 If you have not already done so follow steps 1 through 3 in the How to use Gendrive section preceding this section After you press lt S gt Gendrive asks you to define these parameters The number of columns of pixels your display adapter supports Typical values are 640 or 800 The number of rows of pixels your display adapter supports Typical values are 350 480 or 600 A value to be assigned to AX to set up for an interrupt 10H The value entered must be a hexadecimal number This is often referred to in the adapter user s manual as a display mode Make sure the number specified in the manual is expressed in hexadecimal If the standard VGA mode 640x480x16 is listed as 12 then the table is probably in hex The AX and BX values must be consistent with the numbers of
18. cyan blue green for a two bit pixel 31 Installation amp Technical Support Guide 32 Adapter memory requirements PC memory requirements It is a good idea to run color monitors with four bit pixels monochrome monitors with one bit pixels and gray scale monochrome monitors with four bit pixels Running other combinations either wastes memory eight bit pixels or visibly degrades image quality blue or cyan with one or two bit pixels OrCAD s TIGA driver needs some non display memory 41K in this release on the adapter card to handle a downloaded character font and to speed up certain operations Although unlikely it is possible your card may not have enough memory or not have it available when the card is set for its maximum resolution and pixel size mode For example if your card can display 1024x768 with eight bit pixels it might not have spare memory when in full mode If you reduce pixel size to four bits half of display memory is freed and becomes available On some cards you also specify how many pages of display are available In the above example the mode program might step you from 1024x768x8 with one page to 1024x768x4 with two pages This does not free up any memory You need to specify a mode with one page of memory OrCAD s TIGA driver requests this memory through a series of GSP_Malloc calls Graphics System Processor Memory Allocation If the card does not have enough memory you will see a
19. dependent upon your EMS hardware and software and the other hardware installed on your PC Memory can be increased between 64K and 256K EMS software such as Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager 386 QEMM 386 and Qualitas 386MAX set up only the 64K main EMS frame In order to enable extra 16K slots above 640K you must specify extra parameters on the DEVICE line of your CONFIG SYS file Refer to your EMS documentation for more information Some EMS software packages include software that will help you determine which 16K slots are available QEMM 386 386MAX and other EMS products allow you to load Terminate and Stay Resident TSR programs and device drivers into memory above 640K This is done with commands or DEVICE statements with the phrase LOADHI or LOADHIGH in your CONFIG SYS file Doing this reduces the amount of high memory that Simulate finds However if you need the TSR s it is still advantageous to load them above 640K Simulate and other programs run better with the memory below 640K freed up 47 Installation amp Technical Support Guide Schematic Design Tools 386 and the memory extender Digital Simulation Tools 386 and memory 48 Schematic Design Tools 386 uses the Rational Systems DOS 4GW memory extender to access memory above 640K This memory extender is included in the Schematic Design Tools 386 installation You don t need to configure anything in order to use it Whe
20. e are two problems one you can fix and one you cannot You can invoke the OrCAD application via a batch file that invokes another program upon exit from the application This program does whatever is necessary to restore screen function The problem with Suspend to System however is you can t automatically invoke such a fix it program You might have to type the program name and enter it while the screen is unreadable If you do have a problem with exiting or Suspend to System please contact OrCAD Technical Support If possible OrCAD will modify the driver to handle your specific situation more smoothly TIGA is complex Sometimes it fails and cannot be restarted with normal software processes If this happens it may be necessary to re boot your computer by pressing lt Ctrl gt lt Alt gt lt Del gt Chapter 3 Display drivers Fortunately most problems occur during initialization for TIGA or when setting up to return to the system Except for Suspend to System this usually means your data is safe because you either have not accessed the application yet during initialization or you saved it before quitting In most cases these problems are intermittent and therefore hard to identify and fix Their frequency has gone down with each release from the card s manufacturer Although most of the problems are ultimately not OrCAD s fault if you experience a failure please contact OrCAD Technical Support so we can be aware
21. e bulletin board you can use many but not all bulletin board features First you must register by entering your password and registration number The bulletin board prompts you to enter all the necessary information Allow two to three working days for OrCAD to upgrade your access level Once OrCAD changes your access level to registered user you can access all of the bulletin board features We encourage you to explore what is available 13 Installation amp Technical Support Guide Update Support Extension Service USE 14 The first year of OrCAD support is free when you buy any OrCAD product If you live in the U S or Canada after the first twelve months you can subscribe to OrCAD s Update Support Extension USE service Your subscription to USE service extends the same benefits you receive when you register your new product with OrCAD for another year Free technical telephone support Free product updates Access to OrCAD s twenty four hour Bulletin Board System including OrCAD s technical support database Free subscription to the OrCAD Pointer OrCAD s quarterly technical newsletter To arrange for USE service contact OrCAD Sales and Administration If you live outside the U S and Canada contact your OrCAD distributor or OrCAD international sales representative for information about update support About display drivers CHAPTER 3 Display drivers IBM PC compatible systems c
22. e information Installation amp Technical Support Guide Read the READ ME file Make backup copies Installing the software It s sad but true important information sometimes doesn t make it into the manual Before installing the software be sure to read the file called READ ME found on the first disk in each set of master disks The READ ME file includes information about how much disk space each application requires To read the file use the DOS TYPE command Once you have the ESP design environment installed you can use the View Reference Material editor to review the READ ME file for each application Before you install the software protect your investment by making a backup copy of each disk in the set You may make backup copies as detailed in the License which is found in Chapter 4 License of this booklet Opening the sealed software package and using the peer constitutes acceptance of the terms of the license To make backup copies of your disks use the DOS COPY or DISKCOPY commands Refer to your DOS manual for instructions To install the software follow these steps 1 Place the first disk of the set in the floppy drive of your computer 2 At the DOS prompt enter the name of the drive the disk is in For example if you placed the master disk in drive A type the command A and press lt Enter gt 3 Type the command INSTALL and press lt Enter gt From this point on the installation softwar
23. e prompts you to enter the information it needs to install the Software on your system When the installation process is complete the DOS prompt displays Where to go next Getting started on the right foot fast Chapter 1 Installation NOTES The installation program prompts you for product disks and it may ask for some disks twice To ensure correct installation of the software be sure to insert the correct disks The installation program copies itself to your hard disk during the installation process You will need the installation program to install future releases and updates After installation your software is ready to use While you accustom yourself to the design environment and the tool sets it is a good idea to read through the OrCAD ESP Design Environment User s Guide and the User s Guides for the tool sets you installed Each OrCAD tool set has a User s Guide and a Reference Guide The User s Guides contain basic information about the tools and tutorials The Reference Guides contain more in depth information and cover advanced topics When you first use the OrCAD design environment it is almost impossible to resist the temptation to wade right in and start copying files from old directories to new ones to see what s what After all one of the benefits of the graphical interface is that it is sleek and intuitive Before you do though there s one unassuming but very powerful feature you should know about
24. e sold with only 256K You have to add memory to get the higher resolution Most EGA VGA cards start the display buffer at A000 0 Gendrive can handle up to 800 x 600 60 000 bytes in one 64K segment Most OrCAD VGA drivers issue INT 10H to invoke a BIOS mode which supports 1024x768 OrCAD does not support special timing values required for the cards to work with different multi frequency monitors In some cases the cards come with software which supports multi frequency monitors CAUTION Some cards which implement 1024x768 display modes use a technique called interlacing These cards are often described as IBM 8514 like cards since that IBM display adapter uses interlaced output Interlaced means the display is drawn in two passes The even lines draw on one pass the odd lines draw on the next This _ approach is implemented with slower and less expensive parts Unfortunately it often results in poor picture quality OrCAD provides drivers for cards running in interlaced modes However you should purchase such cards and monitors with great care Verify that the card and monitor work well in your environment before losing the option to return them for a refund or upgrade Drivers for displays up to 800x600 About Gendrive How to use Gendrive Chapter 3 Display drivers OrCAD uses Gendrive to support various display drivers with enhanced resolution modes up to 800x600 Gendrive is a utility for creating a custom display d
25. ee your DOS documentation NOTE If your CONFIG SYS file already has a SHELL statement and the out of environment space message appears try adding 150 to the value specified after E Although the installation program places SET commands in your AUTOEXEC BAT file and modifies your PATH statement you may need to make these changes to the file If your AUTOEXEC BAT file runs another program before it reaches the SET commands the OrCAD tools do not operate properly To correct this move the SET commands up in your AUTOEXEC BAT file so that they are run before AUTOEXEC BAT runs anything else The SET commands you need are listed in the section Not enough environment space on the previous page If you used older versions of OrCAD software you should remove paths to the old executable software from the PATH statement in AUTOEXEC BAT The path you specify in the PATH statement for Release IV software is C ORCADEXE For example PATH C C DOS C TOOLS C EDITOR C ORCADEXE CHAPTER 2 bi Technical support Registration Benefits of registration Technical Support 503 690 9722 This chapter lists the OrCAD resources and services you can take advantage of as a registered customer To help us support your new product please register your OrCAD software by filling out the registration card and mailing it to us within 90 days of purchase Your registration card is inside the sealed packet containing your p
26. er productivity OrCAD supports a large set of VGA Super VGA and 1024x768 VGA cards of varying cost and performance The more expensive faster cards at any resolution level reduce redraw time Now by buying the TIGA compatible cards you can continue up from 1024x768 and still trade off price and performance options The TIGA driver works with most cards implementing TIGA Because of the complexity and recentness of TIGA implementations the driver is not guaranteed to work with every TIGA implementation The following manufacturers produce 34010 or 34020 boards with TIGA support In many cases these manufacturers have local distributors and retailers Many more manufacturers have announced intent to support TIGA Dell Computer Corporation 9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759 Hewlett Packard GTD 3404 East Harmony Road Fort Collins CO 80525 Micro Display Systems 755 East 31st Street Hastings MN 55033 Number Nine Computer Corp 725 Concord Avenue Cambridge MA 02138 RenaissanceGRX 2265 116th Avenue NE Bellevue WA 98004 29 30 Installing TIGA TIGA system driver Installation amp Technical Support Guide Follow these steps to install TIGA 1 Install the TIGA hardware and run whatever setup is needed for your system See the manufacturer s instructions 2 Run the OrCAD INSTALL program and install both TIGA1 DRV and TIGA2 DRV TIGA1 DRV runs with TIGA release 1 1 system drivers TIGA2 DRV runs with re
27. evious sections concerning adapter and PC memory requirements Some manufacturers display cards work with VGA and EGA adapters and some do not Most adapters that plug into the PS 2 Micro Channel Architecture will work Some monitors are manufactured with the ability to alternate between VGA and TIGA modes under software control This is more complex on AT Bus systems Some manufacturers produce VGA cards that interface via special cables to the TIGA card These allow one monitor to handle both modes Unless you buy one of these the chances for running VGA and TIGA in one system i is lower The Drone of running from one monitor is zero 33 Installation amp Technical Support Guide Instability after a failure Monochrome display and Hercules compatible adapters seem to work with the TIGA cards This implies separate displays which is not necessarily bad A good monochrome screen is inexpensive compared to a color screen and is better for text work Hence a dual display system with monochrome for text work and color for graphics may be a desirable if forced condition Upon exiting from an OrCAD application or ae a Suspend to System process the application invokes TIGA function Set_VideoMode with a mode of VGA This invokes a BIOS Set Videomode via an Interrupt 10H In most cases this activates your default video controller It usually works with monochrome Hercules EGA and VGA controllers If it doesn t work ther
28. ich extends technical support update and other benefits USE m An acronym for Update Support Extension See Update Support Extension VGA m An acronym for Video Graphics Array VRAM E An acronym for Virtual Random Access Memory 49 A Accepting terms of the licence 4 ADS see Applied Data Systems graphics interface ADSVECTR DRV display driver 36 Ahead Systems VGA display driver 17 AHEADIK DRV display driver 17 Applied Data Systems graphics interface 36 ATIVGA display driver 17 ATIIK DRV display driver 17 AUTOEXEC BAT 7 31 B Back up copies of OrCAD software 4 Bulletin Board System 9 Access levels 13 Communications software 13 Configuration 13 Logging on 13 Password and registration number 13 Protocols 13 Services available 12 System requirements 13 Telephone number iv 12 C CGA defined 49 Chips and Technology display driver 17 CHIPS1K DRV display driver 17 CONFIG SYS 8 30 Copyrights iv Customer Service 11 Hours 11 Telephone number iv 11 D m Damaged disks 7 Defective product disks 11 INDEX Demonstration disks 11 Design defined 49 Design Environment 5 Design environment defined 49 Device support lists 11 DGIS Defined 49 Graphics interface 27 Disk Drives 3 Display adapters 3 Display buffer 18 Display drivers 15 36 1024x768 17 Ahead Systems VGA 17 Applied Data Systems 36 ATI VGA 17 Categories 16 Chips and Technology 17 Compatibility 20 Configuring 15 DGIS 27 EGA 19 EGA co
29. ild a driver using the settings displayed NOTES The display adapter does color mapping without the rest of OrCAD software being aware of it The Color Table options in the Configuration screen for your OrCAD product assume the default table is active and the menu options presented remain those that are standard ignoring the possibility of re mapping using Gendrive For EGA cards Gendrive makes an educated guess about the proper way to redefine colors This works for most EGA cards If it does not yield satisfactory results on your system contact Technical Support Gendrive is designed to handle display adapters that follow the general conventions of native mode EGA and VGA displays These conventions are The display buffer starts at address A000 0 KD Less than 64K bytes of addressable display memory is required To calculate the size of memory required by a display use this formula rows columns 8 For example 640 480 8 38400 bytes 800 600 8 60000 bytes just less than 64K bytes 1024 768 8 98304 bytes toolarge Editing the Gendrive control file Chapter 3 Display drivers OrCAD software normally uses sixteen colors This implies the display buffer is really composed of 4 bit planes of 64K bytes each Pixels are stored eight pixels per apparent byte The high order bit of byte A000 0 represents the upper left most bit on the screen Each one of these bytes is mapped to fou
30. ive m An OrCAD utility for creating a custom display driver to support your system s video graphics card Hang m When an application program becomes stuck in a loop and cannot recover the system appears frozen and unresponsive To recover try pressing lt Ctrl gt lt C gt which breaks a loop If _ this doesn t work press Ctrl lt Alt gt lt Del gt the reset button or turn the system off and on again Hercules m A standard for monochrome display adapters May also be referred to as HGA Hercules Graphics Adapter or MGA Monochrome Graphics Adapter GLOSSARY Install m An OrCAD utility for placing OrCAD software on your hard disk The software creates directories copies files and may add commands to your AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS files RISC Bi An acronym for Reduced Instruction Set Computer Terminate and stay resident B A program that loads itself into memory and returns control to DOS remaining in the background For example a mouse driver is a terminate and stay resident program TIGA B An acronym for Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture TIGA is a graphics interface defined by Texas Instruments to use with their 34010 and 34020 graphics chips and is supported by many graphics adapters OrCAD uses TIGA to support a wide range of display drivers TSR m An acronym for Terminate and Stay Resident See Terminate and stay resident Update Support Extension E A service offered by OrCAD wh
31. le GENDRIVE DAT DGIS is a graphics interface defined and supported by Graphics Software Systems of Beaverton OR It runs on many high resolution cards Refer to your manufacturer s user s manual for instructions for how to start DGIS TIGA Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture is a graphics interface defined by Texas Instruments to use with their 34010 and 34020 graphics chips and is supported by many companies Using this protocol OrCAD supports a wide range of display drivers with one piece of software See the user s manual for your graphics adapter card for specific instructions about TIGA OrCAD specific notes are included in this section The TIGA protocol allows communication between three pieces of software to produce high performance graphics for PC compatible computers 27 Installation amp Technical Support Guide 28 Why TIGA The three pieces of software are 1134010 or 34020 software running on a display adapter card The 34010 and 34020 are specialized computer chips that handle graphics processing five or more times faster than a 80386 processor The TIGA System Driver This driver is PC based software loaded either by CONFIG SYS a Terminate and Stay Resident program or a combination of both The OrCAD TIGA driver which lets OrCAD software communicate with the TIGA System Driver to request services of the adapter resident code Over 20 display card manufacturers use the TI 34010 or 3402
32. lease 2 0 system drivers 3 Install the TIGA software following the manufacturer s instructions See comments below on the TIGA system driver number of bits per picture element and adapter memory requirements 4 RunESP and configure your OrCAD products to run with one of the TIGA display drivers by entering either TIGA1 DRV or TIGA2 DRV in the Configure Display Driver entry box of each product Refer to the Reference Guide for each product for help with configuration 5 Before trying to do productive work run the application for a while to see if TIGA error messages show up or the system hangs See the test sequence suggested near the end of this chapter in the section Instability after a failure Install the TIGA System Driver according to the instructions supplied by your display adapter manufacturer This may require any or all of these steps Add a DEVICE statement to CONFIG SYS If required this software often sets up a base environment that supports the manufacturer s own software protocols the DGIS protocol and TIGA 9 Invoke a Terminate and Stay Resident program that sets up the final environment for TIGA This program is usually called TIGACD Pixel sizes 1 4 and 8 bits Chapter 3 Display drivers Invoke a program that allows you to set up the screen resolution and the number of bits per pixel The Pixel sizes 1 4 and 8 bits section later in this chapter tells how In some cases this set up is acco
33. lsboro Oregon 97124 7135 which is the licensor of this program B LICENSEE or you shall mean the end user of the enclosed OrCAD product either individual or company as it is shown on the books of OrCAD C OrCAD PRODUCT shall mean the software and related manuals and materials supplied in this package D COMPUTER shall mean the computer on which this program is used E LICENSE shall mean this AGREEMENT and the identical agreement for the specific enclosed OrCAD PRODUCT which is part of the program manual and the rights and obligations created hereunder by the United States Copyright Law and Oregon Law 37 Installation amp Technical Support Guide OrCAD grants to the LICENSEE the nonexclusive right to II License III Copies IV Transfer Restrictions on use and transfer 38 use this copy of the enclosed OrCAD PRODUCT on any single COMPUTER at a single location as long as LICENSEE complies with the terms of this LICENSE OrCAD reserves the right to terminate this LICENSE and to seek any other legal remedies if LICENSEE violates any provisions hereof and in the event of such termination LICENSEE agrees to return the enclosed OrCAD PRODUCT to OrCAD The enclosed OrCAD PRODUCT is the sole and exclusive property of OrCAD LICENSEE ownership is limited to the diskette s purchased LICENSEE agrees to make no more than two 2 copies of the software for archival or backup purposes and further ag
34. message that includes the phrase GSP_MALLOC Failure If this message appears you must adjust your mode down The manufacturer s TIGA software may use up a lot of PC memory thereby interfering with some OrCAD software running requirements High resolution high zoom mismatches Messages Incorrect version of TIGA GSP_Malloc Failure Mixing VGA and EGA dual and single monitors Chapter 3 Display drivers OrCAD software uses the fastest possible arithmetic for calculating screen coordinates This normally involves using 16 bit values less than 32767 When the product of the resolution and the ZOOM factor is greater than 32767 the result unexpectedly becomes a negative number With OrCAD s Schematic Design Tool this is normally not a problem since its maximum zoom is 20 and the maximum resolution is 1600 product 32000 If the problem occurs you see a mathematical inversion of your board display on the screen To recover just zoom in one level Normally no harm is done You should be able to see all or most of your board at the lower level Occasionally you may see one of the following messages display OrCAD s TIGA1 DRV driver is designed to work with TIGA Version 1 1 from TI It does not run properly with a TIGA 1 0 System Driver OrCAD is not aware of any manufacturers that released a 1 0 driver but they may use them internally TIGA2 DRV is designed to work with TIGA Version 2 0 or later See the pr
35. mpatible 19 EGA16E DRV 16 EIZO display driver 17 Genoa 17 Headlands 18 Hercules and compatible 16 HGC2 DRV 16 Interlaced mode 18 Introduction 15 Memory considerations 18 Monochrome 16 NANAO display driver 17 Orchid display driver 17 Paradise 18 Sigma Designs display driver 17 SOTA display driver 17 Special timing values 18 Standard EGA 16 Standard modes 16 51 Installation amp Technical Support Guide Standard VGA 16 Supplied drivers 15 TECMAR 17 Testing TIGA drivers 35 36 TIGA 27 36 Tseng Labs 17 VESA800 DRV 16 VGA 19 VGA extension cards 17 VGA compatible 19 VGA640 DRV 16 Video Seven 7 18 Video Electronics Standards Association 800x600 16 Western Digital 18 Zymos 17 Displays Mixing VGA and EGA 33 Distributors Finding OrCAD distributors 11 DOS environment variables 7 DOS messages 6 Driver updates 12 E EGA defined 49 EGA16E DRV display driver 16 EIZO display driver 17 EMS 43 49 Environment space 7 Environment variables 7 8 Extended memory 44 F FAX telephone number iv G GEN641K DRV display driver 17 Gendrive 19 49 Compatibility 20 Customizing the Gendrive menu 25 27 52 Introduction 19 Using the utility 19 20 Genoa display drivers 17 GENOAIK DRV display driver 17 H Hang defined 49 Hard disk space 3 4 6 Headlands display driver 18 Hercules defined 49 HGC2 DRV display driver 16 I Install defined 49 Installation DOS messages during 6 Installation software 4 Ins
36. mplished by setting parameters in the DEVICE statement In other cases the final adjustment can only be made with the MODE adjustment program The name of this program varies with the manufacturer Add a line to the AUTOEXEC BAT file to set an environment variable to point to the directory where the TIGA files are placed Add this line SET TIGA m directory l directory where m Specifies the path for TIGA system files All TIGA system files are placed in the TIGA on of the destination drive 1 Specifies the path for TIGA dynamic user modules Replace lt directory gt with the directory name An example is SET TIGA mC TIGA 1C TIGA OrCAD software runs best with 16 colors This requires four bits per picture element 4 bit pixels OrCAD s TIGA driver determines the pixel size during initialization If the pixel size is four or eight OrCAD s TIGA Driver assumes colors 0 through 15 display the same as colors 0 through 15 display on an EGA or VGA display adapter If the pixel size is less than four OrCAD s TIGA driver resets an internal table to map colors 1 through 15 to all bits 1 2 or 3 on Color 0 is Black all bits off for all pixel sizes If your adapter is attached to a monochrome display this results in proper display of all OrCAD objects in the Color Table set to colors other than black On a color display this normally results in objects displaying with one color only blue for a one bit pixel or
37. n program can add the following definitions to AUTOEXEC BAT automatically as it installs the software SET ORCADEXE C ORCADEXE SET ORCADPROJ C ORCAD SET ORCADESP C ORCADESP SET ORCADUSER C ORCADESP NOTE The C drive is shown above as an example During installation you specify the drive on which to install the environment and other OrCAD software The installation program places the appropriate drive designator in AUTOEXEC BAT when it adds the environment variables By default DOS reserves a fixed amount of memory for environment variables Occasionally adding variables to your AUTOEXEC BAT file means DOS needs more than the default amount of memory in order to load the variables When that happens DOS displays this message Out of environment space Installation amp Technical Support Guide More troubleshooting When DOS reports insufficient environment space you need to increase the number of bytes DOS reserves for environment variables by using the DOS SHELL command Using an editor add this statement to your CONFIG SYS file SHELL COMMAND COM P E where P makes the change to the environment permanent E specifies a base 10 integer and indicates the number of bytes to set the environment size This number must be in the range of 160 to 32768 Non numeric characters are not allowed A number between 512 and 768 is usually plenty For more information about the SHELL command s
38. ndrive No updates occur Pressing lt S gt to define a special set of parameters For more information see the Defining a Special Display Driver section of this chapter 19 Installation amp Technical Support Guide 20 3 If you do not see an appropriate menu option select lt s gt and skip ahead to the section Defining a special display driver 4 Select an option Gendrive reads the file GENDRIVE DRV and updates it with the set of parameters associated with the menu item you selected Then Gendrive displays the current assignments of the color palette and allows you to assign new color values 5 If you decide to change the palette refer to the Color Palette Assignments section later in this chapter for detailed instructions Otherwise select lt Q gt to quit this part of the process without saving selections Use lt U gt to save the changes Once you have exited the palette definition menu Gendrive asks you to enter a name for the new driver 6 Enter a filename for the new driver After getting the name Gendrive writes the new driver to the disk and exits The new driver is ready to use Configure your OrCAD software to load this new driver in the Configure ESP screen and all of the OrCAD tools configuration screens Refer to the OrCAD ESP Design Environment User s Guide and the OrCAD Reference Guides for the tools you need to configure NOTE Display drivers have limited ability when it comes to
39. never you run a tool from the Schematic Design Tools 386 tool set the tool loads the DOS 4GW memory extender into low memory The memory extender then grabs any available memory above 640K up to the amount you specify on the Configure Schematic Design Tools screen When the tool is done running the memory extender releases the high memory and unloads DOS 4GW thus releasing low memory If you have any Terminate and Stay Resident TSR programs and device drivers you may want to us an EMS memory manager to load these items into memory above 640K By moving the OrCAD device drivers into high memory you can release up to 32K low memory Digital Simulation Tools 386 also uses a memory extender to access memory above 640K It is recommended that you have at least 2 MB of free available extended memory when you run Digital Simulation Tools 386 CGA m An acronym for Color Graphics Adapter Design B A collection of files for a project that reside in a subdirectory apart from files for other projects The files include source object configuration and data files Design environment B The OrCAD ESP design environment within which you use OrCAD tools and organize files by project DGIS m A graphics interface defined and supported by Graphics Software Systems of Beaverton OR It runs on many high resolution cards EGA m An acronym for Enhanced Graphics Adapter EMS m An acronym for Expanded Memory Standard Gendr
40. nse ie O 37 1 Definihons aeg een Beh 37 IE Lienen nennen euere C UA 38 FET COPIES na anregen 38 IV Transfer Restrictions on use and transfer ooocconccnorecnoronononononsaronncnnarccaranono 38 Ms Limited warranty au anne 39 VE Miscellaneous de a 41 Contents Appendix A Memory considerations ccsssssssscsseereceeeeseseccensscnssesseeseeeseesessenenes 43 What is EMS nu naeh 43 EMS in the ESP design environment rseressnnensonsnssnsnsnsunnonsnsensnanonsnsnsssensananssnn 43 EMS in Schematic Design Tools 286 cscessssovcccrnasssovessesseensensceveconscnnsecscersens 44 THE active library en 45 On line brary rmn 45 Configuring Schematic Design Tools 286 to use EMS coommmocoooonccononnnncnnonannos 45 Performance Impacts u neueren 46 Viewing EMS memory allocation in Draft oooccconccncncnnnncnoranononnaninnnonos 47 EMS in Digital Simulation Tools 286 ecce eee eese teen retten enhn e nhan enun 47 Configuring EMS for use with Digital Simulation Tools 286 47 Schematic Design Tools 386 and the memory extender 48 Digital Simulation Tools 386 and memory sse 48 Glossary nk O O 49 HI A 51 THANK YOU jm YOU for buying OrCAD software Please take a moment to read this booklet It tells you how t
41. o configure tools again and again For example if you always want Create Netlist to produce one particular netlist format set this up in the TEMPLATE INSTALL automatically places the macro files MACRO1 MAC and MACRO2 MAC in TEMPLATE You may remove these files or replace them with your own custom macro files if you like Do not remove any of the other files INSTALL places in TEMPLATE Here are some messages from DOS you might encounter during installation This message means there is not enough free space on your hard disk to install the OrCAD software Remove some of the files on your hard disk after backing them up on a floppy disk and try again The READ ME file for each application includes information about how much free disk space the application requires Serious disk I O error Not enough environment space Chapter 1 Installation This message means that the installation program detected a serious error as it was reading or writing files during installation This message may mean that the disk you received was damaged in some way Contact OrCAD Customer Service for replacements This message might appear after you install the software and then reboot your computer The design environment uses four environment variables in conjunction with DOS They are defined in the AUTOEXEC BAT file for your computer using DOS s SET Set Environment command and are loaded every time you turn on your computer The installatio
42. o install the software register your purchase with OrCAD and contact our Technical Support and Customer Service specialists We want you to get the most out of your software Getting ready to install OrCAD software CHAPTER 1 Ni Installation This is a quick guide to installing OrCAD software on your hard disk To install and run OrCAD software your system needs to meet these minimum requirements Atleast 640K of system memory Additional memory EMS is also supported AnIBM PC XT PC AT PS 2 or compatible personal computer with a hard disk and either a high density 3 inch or a high density 5 inch floppy disk drive DOS version 3 0 or later Free hard disk space sufficient for the applications you want to install Disk space requirements are listed in READ ME files NOTE DOS version 3 0 does not support the E environment switch so you need to limit the number of environment variables and keep your PATH statements short DOS 3 3 is the earliest version of DOS that accepts the E switch Your computer system may include optional cards and devices Setup instructions for these are provided in the manuals that came with them Before installing the software you need to know what type of display adapter your system uses EGA VGA or monochrome In addition to these basic types OrCAD software supports many other display adapters After installing the software review Chapter 3 Display drivers for mor
43. o neas P been cionado 19 About Gendrive e P T A MS 19 Howto use Gendrive RS eo iet eer 19 Defining a special display driver ccccccnccconannnnonnnnoneneranecononnenonennananicnnos 21 Color palette ssignments cies een ipai ee rh andre ie 22 Adapter technical requiremen nts cscsssccsccssscsssssccssercsecsssssncnesersssseseees 24 Editing the Gendrive control file cssseccssescccccsesesecnesooeenseetecsssesoneers 25 Drivers for DGIS and TIGA displays ess it 27 About the TIGA display driver iia iva 27 WIYF LIGA Pai AA AA 28 OrCAD s TIGA driver 29 Manufacturers of 34010 34020 boards with TIGA support 29 Installing TIGA Si oiii ues adas 30 TIGA system Anver nase 30 Pixel sizes 1 4 and BD ie 31 Adapter memory requirements eese ones s nenne ran snensneconnsecesssessscesaves 32 PC memory requirements anne 32 High resolution high zoom mismatches eese 33 Messages una tn ER 33 Incorrect version of TIGA nove HM 33 GSP Malloc Failure E Ee FO TNR idas 33 Mixing VGA and EGA dual and single monitors suse 33 Instability after fallute dioere esee eden EE ora e ee RT e Se N epa ee ia 34 Drivers for specific displays iege dais ii 36 Changing display drivers from DOS eeeeeee H 36 Chapter 4 Lice
44. on white paper to a normal mode video screen disorienting You may need to experiment with other color assignments In particular colors 7 8 and 14 Dark Gray Light Gray and Yellow are often difficult to see against the white background lt M gt Reverse Video Monochrome Maps black to white and all other colors to black This gives you a reverse video monochrome screen Depending on the quality of your display this display mode may have a fairly crisp black type on white paper look This may be useful in a high glare environment To help you keep track of changes made to the color palette Gendrive displays the message CHANGED on the screen next to a newly assigned color when you change an index If you make a mistake you can either reassign the mis specified color or press lt N gt for Normal to reset all colors to their default assignments The other four color palette commands perform these functions lt H gt Help Displays additional information on the screen about the color assignment options lt Q gt Abandon Redefinition Exits the color palette definition screen without making any assignments Gendrive builds a driver that does not access any of the color palette routines 23 Installation amp Technical Support Guide 24 Adapter technical requirements lt N gt Set to Normal Returns all color assignments to their default settings lt U gt Use Settings above Tells Gendrive to bu
45. otification of new products Call 503 690 9881 between 8 00 A M and 5 00 P M Pacific Time for Location and phone number of your nearest sales distributor General information about OrCAD products such as features and system requirements Products or Update Support Extensions USE Demonstration disks 11 Installation amp Technical Support Guide OrCAD Pointer Bulletin Board System 503 690 9791 12 The OrCAD Pointer is a quarterly technical newsletter about OrCAD personal engineering tools Its purpose is to Provide up to date technical information Supplement published manuals and technical notes Tell about updates and current development efforts Allow users to exchange information about how OrCAD software can be used to maximize productivity The OrCAD Pointer is free to all registered users of OrCAD products with mailing addresses in the United States and Canada Registered users outside the US and Canada can receive the OrCAD Pointer via first class mail for a 5 postage fee The subscription rate for non registered users with addresses in the United States is 10 per year Non registered users with mailing addresses outside the United States may subscribe for 10 per year plus postage Send subscription inquiries address changes and all correspondence regarding the OrCAD Pointer to OrCAD Inc Publications Department 3175 NW Aloclek Drive Hillsboro OR 97124 7135 For
46. p 10 Technical support database 9 TECMAR display driver 17 TECMARIK DRV display driver 17 Terminate and stay resident defined 49 TIGA Defined 49 TIGA graphics interface 27 TIGA protocol 27 TIGA system driver 30 Trademarks iv TRIIK DRV display driver 17 Tseng Labs display drivers 17 TSENGIK DRV display driver 17 TSR defined 49 Tutorials 5 U Update Support Extension Benefits 14 Defined 49 Ordering 11 Subscription information 14 Updates 9 USE see Update Support Extension User s Guides 5 53 Installation amp Technical Support Guide V VEGAIK DRV display driver 18 VESA800 DRV display driver 16 VGA defined 49 VGA640 DRV display driver 16 Video 7 display driver 18 Video Electroncs Standards Association extension to 800x600 display drivers 16 VRAM defined 49 W WDIK DRV display driver 18 Western Digital display driver 18 Z Zymos display driver 17 NOTES 55
47. r bytes by the EGA or VGA hardware The number of columns must be a multiple of eight That is no byte contains bits from both the right end of a line and the left end of the next line We know of no graphic adapters that violate this rule The mapping from bits on screen and in memory must be continuous For example if byte n contains the last 8 bits on line m then byte n 1 contains the first 8 bits on line m 1 Various non EGA VGA adapters and modes violate this rule For example CGA and Hercules Graphics modes Gendrive is controlled by an editable ASCII file called GENDRIVE DAT You can change this file to make a special definition process into a menu option You might want to do this if you have a large number of users and a small number of adapters for which OrCAD does not currently provide ready made drivers If you choose to edit the file make sure your text editor can output ASCII only files with carriage return line feed sequences as line separators Any line that starts with a semicolon is a comment Any line that is not a comment must be a mode specification 25 Installation amp Technical Support Guide 26 A mode specification consists of five fields separated by commas Driver Description Columns Rows AX value BX value where Driver Description is text that displays during application initialization It normally contains Columns x Rows and a display adapter description If this
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51. river to support your system s video graphics card To create a driver with the proper functionality and performance Gendrive modifies the internal configuration of a generic driver Gendrive can create drivers for most display adapters claiming to be EGA or VGA compatible with resolutions up to 800 horizontal x 600 vertical EGA and VGA cards have the hardware capability to map a logical color to an actual color on the display screen This mapping is done via a color palette table In addition a border around the drawing area is usually supported and the palette is initialized to draw the border in black Gendrive allows you to re define the color palette and lets you change the color assignments Follow these steps to create a display driver 1 At the DOS prompt type cd orcadesp drv and press lt Enter gt If you chose a different directory structure than the one OrCAD recommends substitute the path to the directory containing GENDRIVE EXE 2 Torun Gendrive type Gendrive and press lt Enter gt Gendrive initializes itself and reads in the OrCAD supported set of configurations from GENDRIVE DAT Then it displays the driver description part of the file as a set of menu options The four options are Entering the number associated with your display adapter You can use the T and J keys to scroll through the menu to see the available options Pressing lt M gt to see more menu options Pressing lt Q gt to quit Ge
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53. talling OrCAD software 4 Installing updates 5 Interlaced mode 18 L License agreement 37 41 Accepting the agreement 37 Archive copies of OrCAD software 38 Backup copies of OrCAD software 38 Definitions 37 Multiple computers 38 39 Restrictions on use and transfer of OrCAD software and documentation 38 39 Rights 38 Termination of license 38 Warranty 39 41 LIM EMS 43 M Modems see Bulletin Board System Monitors see Display adapters Multi frequency monitors 18 N NANAO display driver 17 Newsletter see OrCAD Pointer Not enough environment space 7 O OrCAD L P Telephone numbers and address iv OrCAD Pointer 9 Contents 12 Publication frequency 12 Subscription information 12 Orchid display driver 17 Out of environment space DOS message 7 P Paradise display driver 18 PATH statement 8 Peripheral devices and cards 3 Personal computers supported 3 Pointer see OrCAD Pointer Product updates 9 R READ ME file 4 Reference Guides 5 Refunds Conditions for full refunds 37 Registration Benefits 9 Card 9 Change of address 11 Status 11 RISC defined 49 S Sales and Administration Hours 11 Telephone number 11 Serious disk I O error DOS message 7 Index SET command in DOS 7 SHELL command in DOS 8 Sigma Designs display driver 17 SOTA display driver 17 System requirements 3 T Technical notes 11 Technical Support 9 Faster help 10 Hours 10 Telephone number iv 10 Things to try before calling for hel
54. the symbolic library and what they contain Active library line library Contains each configured libra Name table 4 Name table and 3 Main memory E Symbolic data table EF EMS memory S Main memory e Disk Symbolic data table EMS memory Two types of libraries found in Schematic Design Tools 286 The active library On line library Configuring Schematic Design Tools 286 to use EMS Appendix A OrCAD Release IV products and EMS The active library contains information about each part on the schematic It always resides in main memory It can be configured to be 64 152K this is done on the Configure Schematic Design Tools screen The name table contains a list of the parts found on the schematic The symbolic data table contains all of the symbol information for each part on the schematic The on line library contains information about each configured library The name table contains a list of all the parts in each configured library It can be stored in main memory EMS memory or on disk The symbolic data table contains all of the symbol information for each part in each configured library It can be stored in EMS memory or on disk Follow these steps to configure Schematic Design Tools 286 to use EMS 1 Select Draft and Configure Schematic Tools from the Schematic Design Tools screen The Configure Schematic Design Tools screen displays 2 Moveto the Library Options area
55. uper VGA adapters that can display 1024x768 Drivers for EGA and VGA displays up to 800x600 that you create with a program called Gendrive Drivers for standard interfaces that take advantage of on board graphics co processors These include support for the TIGA and DGIS standards Drivers for specific manufacturers boards Most users purchase display adapters and monitors that work with standard display modes OrCAD supplies the following drivers to support these modes VGA640 DRV Supports 640x480x16 colors and should work for most cards with VGA in their names This card may also work with EGA cards that support 640x480 but if it doesn t you can use Gendrive to create one that works EGA16E DRV Supports 640x350x16 colors and should work with most cards with EGA in their names HGC2 DRV Supports 720x348x2 colors and should work with Hercules Monochrome Graphics Adapter or any card claiming to be Hercules compatible VESA800 DRV Supports 800x600x16 colors and should work with VGA cards that claim to support the Video Electronics Standards Association extension to 800x600 If this driver doesn t work you can use Gendrive to create one that does Drivers for displays up to 1024x768 Chapter 3 Display drivers OrCAD supports VGA extension cards which provide 1024x768 resolutions However each vendor uses different software interfaces for their cards OrCAD provides separate drivers for ea
56. ware eese eene 3 Read the READ ME file 2 ee need 4 Make backup COPIE nen 4 Installing the software a eu 4 Where t gO nekt ai ade 5 Getting started on the right f00t faSt oooconnnnnncrocnnnonennninnncinanonannrnnnnnrcnnnonananoos 5 Messages from DOS nase ae elek 6 Not enougsh disk space vn nee 6 Serious disk I O error naar 7 Not enough environment space een enter 7 More troubleshooBDE 0 ea Ea aeneae das 8 Chapter 2 Technical support sereresserresseeeerorsssnresrererasusosoerererasuseassorersseernssssere 9 Registration in een al 9 Benefits of registration oi ianineeken een 9 Technical Support gas Ener 10 Before calling Technical Support na nes 10 Customer Services aus kernel 11 Sales and Administration serie Seele eek 11 OrCAD Fonter iii ini 12 Bulletin Board System su in ai 12 System requirements ironia nennen 13 Configuration s creuse A AA 13 Bulletin Board System maintenance eeeece eene 13 Logon InstPucHons realen 13 Update Support Extension Service USE eese eene 14 Chapter 3 Display drivers eue te abso ea 15 About display drivers T 15 Drivers for standard display modes eene 16 Drivers for displays up to 1024x768 eue eieeio eire st ncedoaceeensersdsnnnsarstenssssasessenncoens 17 Installation amp Technical Support Guide Drivers for displays up to 800x600 oret terr annor p
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