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How to run ADEXL without re-netlisting?

dboy1394

Hi, I am using ICFB 6.1.5-64b.

Due to design-specific reasons, I want to include a blackboxed block into my testbench by hacking the netlist. It works fine in ADE because I can "include" the netlist in ADE.

Now I want to run this in ADEXL for PVT simulation. How can I run ADE without re-netlisting? Say I run it first, got the netlist, then I hack it and want to re-run with the hacked netlist.

In the ADEXL GUI I only find "run", no "run without netlisting".

 

Thanks

JP 

    • Make sure you have the "Reference History" toolbar enabled in ADE XL. This is under Window->Toolbars. It looks like below.
    • Click on the "gear" icon on the right side, and set the Netlisting Mode to "Use reference netlist".
    • Then in the combobox you can pick the Interactive history point that you want to start from.

    You can edit the netlist under <simulationDir>/<lib>/<cell>/<adexlView>/results/data/<InteractiveDir>/psf/<testName>/netlist/netlist (edit the file called "netlist" not "input.scs", because that will be regenerated based on the analysis statements etc.

    That should do the job...

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • HI, I tried as you mentioned above and it even warns me that I am going to use reference history netlist but yet it goes on creating a new netlist. Any inputs are welcome.

    ICFB ver:6.1.5

     Prakash

  • Hi Andrew,

    I had followed ur instructions, but i see that netlist is different each time. I have lot of corners to run and want to use hacked netlist from previous run. when i go and open the netlist for each corner  i see that its not the reference netlist, its generated again. So the solution does not work for me.

    Thanks,

    Amit

  • Amit,

    Sounds odd - this should work, so maybe there is something wrong with your setup. I would suggest contacting customer support (if it's not too late, since this was over 2 months ago).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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