hex variable to verilog module

AEL will convert variables with value such as 0xfe to 254 - but actually the UI will do the same, so I'm not sure that's what you want. I'm not sure how this constant is being passed to your model. so that may not be what you want.

You could also have your design or global variable (in ADE Explorer/Assembler) set to atoi(numConv("0xfe" "dec" nil)) or something like that?

Andrew

I'm trying 0x10 as the value of ADE variable cfg; then i set cfg as the value passed to my verilog cell

I get a netlist error:

  dynamicparam real cfg = 0x10;
                              |
xmvlog: *E,EXPSMC (./cds_globals.vams,28|30): expecting a semicolon (';') [3.10(IEEE)].
   dynamicparam real cfg = 0x10;
                               |
xmvlog: *E,EXPEQL (./cds_globals.vams,28|31): expecting an equal sign ('=') [3.10(IEEE)].
    module worklib.cds_globals:vams

What I would like is to pass 0x10 via a variable.

Ah, my apologies - I entered the 0x9e via the Editing Design Variables form where it gets converted to decimal. If you enter it there, it passes it literally to spectre or AMS - and that's not going to work. I think you may need to use the numConv option...

Andrew

Meanwhile Cadence Support explained how to do it; may be useful to someone else:

From Tools->CDF edit change CDF layer to Base, then enable "parse as CEL" and "parse as number":

Now the value of "constant" can be a variable, however using the old hex notation (32'h1f3) directly in the property field is not possible, only decimal numbers.

The variable however can be either a decimal number or hex or binary, using one of the following:

eval(0b1101)

atoi(numConv(“0b1101” ‘dec t))

eval(0xfe)

atoi(numConv(“0xfe” ‘dec t))

In the end I wanted to easily switch between two hex values, like below:

Meanwhile Cadence Support explained how to do it; may be useful to someone else:

From Tools->CDF edit change CDF layer to Base, then enable "parse as CEL" and "parse as number":

Now the value of "constant" can be a variable, however using the old hex notation (32'h1f3) directly in the property field is not possible, only decimal numbers.

The variable however can be either a decimal number or hex or binary, using one of the following:

eval(0b1101)

atoi(numConv(“0b1101” ‘dec t))

eval(0xfe)

atoi(numConv(“0xfe” ‘dec t))

In the end I wanted to easily switch between two hex values, like below:

I had also meant to ask about your CDF settings because something sounded incorrect. Anyway, glad it was resolved (oh and by the way, if you're also asking the same question to customer support at the same time, it's polite to mention that as otherwise the Cadence folks on here can end up repeating work being done by a colleague, which is not efficient for those of us with limited bandwidth).

Andrew

Actually it was not at the same time, only after your last response.

But sure, I will mention any pending customer support in the future.

Thank you