Pin searching in the layout top

Hi mfyee

You had not specified to only search for pins in leSearchHierarchy. That's why you got all the shapes. The following cmd should have been used:

leSearchHierarchy(cvId cvId~> bBox 0 "pin" list(list("layer" "==" pinLay)))

If it is just top level pins, you can also use this:

procedure( CCSfindPins()
   prog( (cv pinLayerList allPins targetPins)
      cv=geGetWindowCellView()
      pinLayerList=list( '("Metal1" "PIN") '("Metal5" "PIN") )
      allPins=list()
      foreach( pinLay pinLayerList
         targetPins=setof(x cv~>shapes x~>pin && x~>lpp==pinLay)
         allPins=append(allPins targetPins)
      ) ;foreach
      return(allPins)
   ) ;prog
) ;procedure

I prefer to use "prog+return" instead of just using "let" to return the last value. Just a personal preference. : )

Best regards
Quek

Hi Quek,

Great to hear from you again, its been a long time. i have tried to use "pin" as your first suggestion but the problem is, it returns nothing but nil. i have also check on the user guide itself where i don't see "pin" as one of the option in leSearchHierarchy function. i will try on your second suggestion, although i hope to get the 'leSearchHierarchy' done as this scripts might also need to search the pin down to more hierarchy.

 Thank you for your suggestion very much.

 Best regards,

MF

Hi MF

"pin" is one of the object types listed in IC61x layout SKILL reference manual. It is not listed in IC51 layout SKILL manual.

Best regards
Quek

Dear Quek,

 I am not sure if this is applicable in IC5, since i need the code to deal with the old library where id cdb format and it is not possible to migrate to IC6. I have tried your script using Prog but its also grep all the elements on the top instead of just pin. would this be i specified the datatype wrongly?

Thanks for all the help.

 Best regards,
MF

Hi MF

I just tested the script on IC5141-500-6-150. It seems to be working fine. It returns only the pinIDs. 

Best regards
Quek

Dear Quek,

I have found the problem on the scripts, i have tried running the leSearcHierarchy function as before by defining the correct layer e.g. "METAL5" "pin" it returns only the pin ID but the problem is once the particular layer is not found or group together with other layers like

 pinLayerList = list (list("M1" "pin") list("METAL5" "pin")

where M1 is not exist in the technology(but i need this to be the universal program which use on different technology). in this scenario the leSearchHierarchy will grep all the metal layer on the top, but it is fine when i define as below,

 pinLayerList = list (list("METAL1" "pin") list("METAL5" "pin")

I wonder why is this goes wrong, should leSearchHierarchy only return the value that exist?

 Many thanks.

 Regards,MF

Hi MF

I can reproduce your observations. It seems that leSearchHierarchy will return all pins instead of nil when a non-existent LPP is used. How about adding a check for the LPP? E.g.

procedure( CCSfindPins()
   prog( (cv tf pinLayerList allPins)
      cv=geGetWindowCellView()
      tf=techGetTechFile(ddGetObj(cv~>libName))
      pinLayerList = list( '("METAL1" "PIN") '("METAL5" "PIN") )
      allPins=list()
      foreach (pinLay pinLayerList
         if( techGetLP(tf pinLay) then
            allPins = append(allPins leSearchHierarchy(cvId cvId~>bBox 0 "pin" list(list("layer" "==" pinLay))))
         else
            printf("LPP %L not found in techfile\n" pinLay)
         ) ;if
     ) ;foreach
      return(allPins)
   ) ;prog
) ;procedure

Best regards
Quek

Dear Quek,

Thanks for giving me the instruction to get the metal layer that available on the Tech file only, and now it works great. Thanks so much and it is always please to work with you all the while.

 Best regards, MF