How to attach the cdl netlist with cdl view

Hi Ashish,

If you search in cdnshelp for "CDL_NETLIST_FILE" you'll get the instructions on how to do it with auCdl. I've prepared an example, attached.

In this - there's a "text" view called exampleLib/myblock/cdlNetlist - and this has the CDL netlist in the text.txt file inside the view. I thought this was best so that it was design manageable.

There's a schematic for myblock, which we won't use because there's a stopping view called auCdl for myblock (a copy of the symbol view). I then opened the auCdl view and added a cellView property, CDL_NETLIST_FILE set to "../cdlNetlist/text.txt" - i.e. a relative path relative to the auCdl view to point at the neighbouring view.

It's also important for the auCdl simInfo for myblock to be correct - and to have the termOrder matching the terminal order in the textual netlist.

Finally, you need to set:

auCdlEnableNetlistInclusion=t

In your .simrc file to enable this inclusion. In the testcase I put it in the .simrc file in the working dir, but typically you'd have a central one - I'm assuming you do already for other reasons?

In the testcase you can netlist exampleLib/top/schematic - and you'll get a netlist similar to the file called netlist in the testcase.

I think this does what you want!

Kind Regards,

Andrew.