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DSPF black box

The DSPF include option in Explorer Simulation Files Setup has a "black box" option. I have a DSPF extraction which contains a sub-cell which i don't want extracted. When i use this option i get the usual dspf_include statement at the end of the netlist but now with blackbox="blah blah" which seems promising. The run results dont show any evidence that the sub-cell was taken as schematic and the output log has the statement "Subckt 'blah' defined in file 'input.scs' will be replaced with subckt 'blah' specified in DSPF file 'blah blah'. but i don't see any mention of the sub-block taken as schematic.

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Andrew Beckett over 2 years ago

Did you run the LVS and extraction such that the block was black-boxed too? There needs to be an instance of the block in the DSPF file for this to work.

It's probably best if you contact customer support for this, as seeing the setup would really help.

Andrew
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Pirate King over 2 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

So i deleted the extracted sub-block lines from the DSPF file and inserted a call to the schematic version. Seems to work. It gives same result as pinning the sub-block out of the extraction by placing it higher in the schematic hierarchy
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Pirate King over 2 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

So i deleted the extracted sub-block lines from the DSPF file and inserted a call to the schematic version. Seems to work. It gives same result as pinning the sub-block out of the extraction by placing it higher in the schematic hierarchy
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Ashwin Rebello over 2 years ago in reply to Pirate King

I see you have got this to work by a bodge, did you ever get the black box function to work correctly
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