Forcing an update of the netlist

Chris,

If you were using the OCEAN API instead, you could use createNetlist(?recreateAll t ?display nil)

Similarly the "sev" API can be used:

sevNetlistFile(sevSession(hiGetCurrentWindow()) 'recreate)

but this displays the netlist afterwards.

The "asi" APIs do this are private, I'm afraid. I'm not sure I can see a massively good reason for it being private though, so I would suggest contacting customer support over this and we can look into reconsidering that (if the AE you speak to needs more information, ask them to contact me).

Kind Regards,

Andrew.

Andrew,

I like the solution using sevNetlistFile(...). Displaying the netlist is no real issue. Using createNetlist(...) also works for me. However, I was wondering if there is another solution which just invalidates/modifies the design, which would force the netlister to run prior to the next simulation? Can I open and save the cellview, for instance?

Thanks for your suggestions,

Chris

Chris,

There is a private API to invalidate the netlist - but this is really for indicating that something needs updating (like model files, analysis statements and so on) - not the design itself.

You could potentially modify the design (and do an schCheck too), but you'd have to change every cellView in the hierarchy because the incremental netlister only netlists the cellViews that have changed. So I'm not sure that's your best option.

Regards,

Andrew.

But shouldn't a a partial re-netlisting invoke the new custom formatter? Or does it cache the netlist string which is written to the netlist file?

Best,

Chris

Chris,

It will only use the new formatter for the cellViews which get re-netlisted. Inside the netlist directory there is an "ihnl" directory which contains the netlists for each cellView separately - it only recreates each cellView's netlist if that cellView has been modified since last netlister (or a force renetlist is enabled), and then it concatenates all these individual netlist pieces together. So if only (say) the top level schematic was modified, it would only renetlist that with the new formatter; all the rest would be whatever was netlisted with the previous formatter.

It doesn't cache the netlist string - but it does cache each cellView's netlist. The "ihnl" stands for "Incremental Hierarchical NetLister" (or something like that).

Regards,

Andrew.

Alright, thanks for the detailled explanation. So I'll go with one of your suggestions.

Chris