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Schematic Design Rules Check (DRC)

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Schematic Design Rules Check (DRC)

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But a thorough design check can take a long time. Capture provides a design rules check tool that helps us detect electrical and physical issues we may have overlooked. In OrCAD Capture project directory, make sure you select your design file, go to tools, and choose design rules check. You may get a warning here, We want to run electrical rules and physical rules because our parts have footprints associated with them, so we want to pick that up as well, if there are any issues. Under electrical rules, make sure these options are checked and physical rules, make sure these options are checked, as well. With that, click okay and go see the results. You'll get this prompt, just hit yes. And the results of the design rule check will be on the schematic. And whoa, we have a lot of DRC markers. Any other results will be in the session log on the bottom. So, we have a couple of issues here. Net has two or more aliases possible short, that is GND underscore 1. And that would be right in this…

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