Automatically placement of PINS on NETS

First, make sure you understand terminals, pins, and figures. When you see a "pin" in layout, what you are seeing is a figure (like a rectangle or polygon) whose parent is a pin. That pin has a terminal as a parent. A terminal can have several pins.

foreach(myTerm cv->terminals
foreach(myPin myTerm->pins
myNet = myPin->net
figs_on_net = myNet->figs

;; write code to figure out which figure on the net (i.e. one of the members of figs_on_net)
;; you want to move the pin figure (myPin->fig) to.
;;
;; figure out what the pin figure type is with myPin->fig->objType
;; suppose you found that the objType is "rect" (typical) and you need to move
;; to the location specified by newBbox, then do
myPin->fig->bBox = newBbox

;; if it is a path or polygon you need to do something different.

;; and move the label too. Labels are usually children.
foreach( lab myPin->fig->children
;; put some objType checking in here...
lab->xy = centerBox(newBbox)

;; could also figure out how much the pin moved by and adjust the xy position by the same delta
;; many variations and possibilities.
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this obviously isn't a fully coded with checks for corner cases example but maybe it is enough to move you in the right direction.

-Dan (paying the community dues....)

Hi Dan,

Can you please help me to move the pin on the net  if pin name and net name is same using skill?

Hi Dan,

Can you please help me to move the pin on the net  if pin name and net name is same using skill?

Try the next code:

procedure(MovePinsToInstances()
let( (term pin net childTerm pinFigLocation location instTerm pinFig)
cv=geGetWindowCellView()
foreach(term cv~>terminals
; iterate over all the pins for this terminal
foreach(pin term~>pins
pinFig=pin~>fig
net=term~>net
; only do this if there aren't more than one inst term
;unless(cdr(net~>instTerms)
instTerm=car(net~>instTerms)
childTerm=instTerm~>term
childPinFig=car(instTerm~>term~>pins)~>fig
; location within the instance master
location=centerBox(childPinFig~>bBox)
; transform to the top level coordinate system
location=dbTransformPoint(location instTerm~>inst~>transform)
pinFigLocation=centerBox(pinFig~>bBox)
; calculate the overall transform to move the pin to the new location
;transform=dbConcatTransform(list(-xCoord(pinFigLocation):-yCoord(pinFigLocation) "R0" 1) location)
transform=dbConcatTransform(list(-xCoord(pinFigLocation):-yCoord(pinFigLocation) "R0" 1) list(xCoord(location):yCoord(location) "R0" 1))
dbMoveFig(pinFig cv transform)
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 ) ; let
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Danny