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Get hierarchical terminal name from cursor selection on schematic.

ddean

I currently have skill code that will get a hierarchical net name so I can easily plot a voltage with a bindkey by hovering over the net and pressing a key.  This saves opening the calculator and then hitting VT and then going to select the net. 

The code does the following:  get the current window, get a point in the window (from the cursor), select the point, get the hierarchical net name by using car((geGetSelSet())~>net~>name) and geGetInstHier(windowid).  I then plot using VT and the hierarchical net name and then deselect everything.

I would like to do something similar for currents which work on terminals, but I can't seem to find a skill function that gets the terminal name by hovering over a particular terminal.  geGetSelSet() comes up with nil on terminals.  Any help would be appreciated.

  • You can do this with the direct plot icon in the ADE toolbar in IC615/IC616 - or you could put the function for the direct plot on a bindkey, potentially. Which version are you using? Did you try the toolbar? (the ADE toolbar can be added in the schematic).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • I was able to get something to kind of work by using the sevDirectPlot() function, but you have to get the session number and add a probe.  The problem is it always plotted, erasing what I had on the waveform window.

    Trying that gave me the idea to use the probe to get the information (as I want to have a bindkey to add waveforms to the current waveform window or another one to add to plot to a new waveform window so I did the following:  get window id, get a point from the cursor, add a terminal probe, select the point, get the probe name (pathList and pathObjectName), strcat, and either pop a new waveform window (or not) and plot(IT(path/term)), then I deleted the probe and deselected everything in the window.

    The procedures used were hiGetCurrentWindow(), hiGetPoint(), geAddTermProbe(), geSelectPoint(), geGetAllProbe() - to get probe info, strcat(), plot(), geDeleteAllProbe(), and geDeslectAll().

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