Preference to define bus bit format

Hi Norayr,

Well, that rather depends on which netlister you're talking about? There are quite a few netlisters, and whether it makes sense to do this rather depends on the netlister in question. For example, you have to be aware of the fact that there are legal characters to consider in a particular netlist language - so it may not make sense to do that. Some netlist languages don't really have the concept of buses anyway (e.g Spectre, HSPICE, CDL).

So please make clear which netlister you're talking about, why you need it, and which version of Virtuoso are you talking about?

Regards,

Andrew.

Dear Andrew,

Language in question is CDL. 

Sure, cdl has no concept of buses. It scalarises them and its up to netlister to decide how to map CDBA bus character <> into netlist namespace. 

So by default bus<0:1> in cdl cill be bus<0> but I need to override the default name mapping and map < to [ and > to ]. 

I do hope instead netlister customization you expose a preference to define character for bus bit mapping. 

Thanks,

Norayr

Dear Andrew,

Language in question is CDL. 

Sure, cdl has no concept of buses. It scalarises them and its up to netlister to decide how to map CDBA bus character <> into netlist namespace. 

So by default bus<0:1> in cdl cill be bus<0> but I need to override the default name mapping and map < to [ and > to ]. 

I do hope instead netlister customization you expose a preference to define character for bus bit mapping. 

Thanks,

Norayr

Norayr,

It's on the File->Export->CDL form already:

Regards,

Andrew

Dear Andrew,

Thank you very much.

Also could you please let me know how to set pinMap preference to true, so Calibre interactive will use that setting for LVS run?

In my Calibre run dir I can see si.env file, which currently have this option set to nil

Should I do envSetVal("<what to put here>" "pinMap" 'boolean t) in my .cdsinit file? What tool name should I use?

Thanks,

Norayr

There's no cdsenv setting for this. You can set pinMAP in the .simrc file, but then that does override any value set on the form, which may not be desirable.

when(simSimulator=="auCdl"
  pinMAP=t
)

This article explains how to set the defaults on the form How can I change the default values on the Virtuoso CDL Out form, map bus name, include file, netlist file, connection by name etc. How to load auCdl template file automatically.

For the CDL export from The Mentor Calibre interface, you will probably need to ask Mentor (as it's their interface, and I don't know what controls they offer).

Regards,

Andrew.