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Symbolics and Translation to IC61

armthy
armthy over 13 years ago

 Hello,

I have noticed that during IC51 to IC61 translation, some of the symbolic/symbolic arrays are unbound in IC61.

On further investigation, I have realized that this is due to incorrect usage of symbolics in IC51.  Instead of using Create->Contact the Symbolics have been added as an Instance. Since I have seen legacy designs that have this usage all over the hierarchy, I am wondering if any forum members has a template of skill code that can go thru a layout hierarchy and replace symbolic instances with the equivalent contacts.

I can run such a code in IC51, correct the layout hierarchy and then run the translation to IC61.

Appreciate any help on this.

Thanks!

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    Andrew Beckett over 13 years ago

     I'd be surprised if this was to do with it being placed as an instance in IC5141, since there's not really a difference between an instance and a via in IC5141 - it's the same object in the database.

    Probably best to contact customer support. Then we can take a look at your data and figure out what's going wrong.

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 13 years ago

     I'd be surprised if this was to do with it being placed as an instance in IC5141, since there's not really a difference between an instance and a via in IC5141 - it's the same object in the database.

    Probably best to contact customer support. Then we can take a look at your data and figure out what's going wrong.

    Andrew.

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