Cell name as a pcell variable

I don't entirely understand your problem. My guess is that when you're doing a hierarchical copy, it's not copying the child instances instantiated within the cellView. Is that it? If so, I don't think there's anything you can do except copy them manually yourself. The problem is that they are not referenced in the superMaster cellView for the pcell, and hence the copy engine won't see them (I expect; I didn't try this).

Regards,

Andrew.

Andrew,

 Yes, thats correct. I was actually copying them manually. But how do I make sure that they are referenced in the superMaster cellview? Does it happen by default?

Thanks

Sandeep. 

Sandeep,

The only way this could conceivably work (and I haven't tested this) is if the default parameters for the pcell mentioned the names of the components included underneath. That way the superMaster would reference the components because  your pcell code would have evaluated to create them.

But that's unlikely to be useful, because presumably each instance could reference different components underneath.

For efficiency reasons the hierarchical copy (and various other hierarchical operations) use the parent-child data in each cellView to determine the children to copy. The alternative would be to do a full load of the cellView and elaboration of each pcell instance, to collect the children that way. That's not done (as it would be much more expensive), but the down side is that it will miss cases where you have instances of cells in pcells where the cellName of the instantiated device is controlled via a pcell parameter.

If you really want that, you'd have to contact customer support for an enhancement request to provide this (as an option). However, I'd say it's a pretty unusual case and a fairly major change to the way the copy is done, so there's not an enormous chance of it being implemented (unless there have been other customers asking for the same thing; I didn't check).

Regards,

Andrew.