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Automatically placement of PINS on NETS

DannyRitt

Hello,


When generating/updating PINS in VXL it typically places them near the 0,0 coordinates as one group. I have a large block with many PINS, all grouped near 0,0 coordinates. I am interested to automatically place them on objects with the same layer and NET name. These PINS do not need to be on EDGES but on polygons with the same NET name. The skill script will take all selected PINS and move them to the matched path/rectangle/polygon with the same NET name.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Danny

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  • Hi Andrew,

    So another approach is to propagate the PINS from lower level and give them the current level names using the following code (Instead of selecting the PINS at the current level and have them moved to their terminals). Didn't work well...

    procedure(PropPins1()
    cv=geGetWindowCellView()

    foreach(inst cv~>instances
    foreach(instTerm inst~>instTerms
    ; if this is an I/O of this cell
    when(instTerm~>net~>term
    foreach(pin instTerm~>term~>pins
    foreach(fig pin~>figs
    ; propagate the pin shape up to this level
    newFig=dbCreateRect(cv list("m1" "drawing") dbTransformBBox(fig~>bBox inst~>transform))
    dbCreatePin(instTerm~>net newFig nil instTerm~>net~>term)

    ; Assign a Label over the PIN with the current level PIN Name
    netName = newFig~>net~>name
    when(netName = newFig~>net~>name
    lbl = dbCreateLabel(
    newFig~>cv
    list("m1" "lvs")
    centerBox(newFig~>bBox);
    netName
    "centerCenter"
    "R0"
    "roman"
    0.0625
    )


    )
    )
    )
    )
    )
    )


    Thanks,

    Danny
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  • Hi Andrew,

    So another approach is to propagate the PINS from lower level and give them the current level names using the following code (Instead of selecting the PINS at the current level and have them moved to their terminals). Didn't work well...

    procedure(PropPins1()
    cv=geGetWindowCellView()

    foreach(inst cv~>instances
    foreach(instTerm inst~>instTerms
    ; if this is an I/O of this cell
    when(instTerm~>net~>term
    foreach(pin instTerm~>term~>pins
    foreach(fig pin~>figs
    ; propagate the pin shape up to this level
    newFig=dbCreateRect(cv list("m1" "drawing") dbTransformBBox(fig~>bBox inst~>transform))
    dbCreatePin(instTerm~>net newFig nil instTerm~>net~>term)

    ; Assign a Label over the PIN with the current level PIN Name
    netName = newFig~>net~>name
    when(netName = newFig~>net~>name
    lbl = dbCreateLabel(
    newFig~>cv
    list("m1" "lvs")
    centerBox(newFig~>bBox);
    netName
    "centerCenter"
    "R0"
    "roman"
    0.0625
    )


    )
    )
    )
    )
    )
    )


    Thanks,

    Danny
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