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Zoom in to the probed net in schematic

GDCRA

Hi,

Is there way to zoom in to the probed net in schematic? I am tracing net from lower level cells to all the way to top level schematics. At many intermediate cell levels in hierarchy, the net is connected just by name hence net has very small length in schematic. so it become very difficult to spot the net.

Thanks

GC

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  • Having thought about this a bit more, it would be quite hard to implement in SKILL without doing a lot of work to trace a net to the current level of hierarchy. It's easy to find the net at the highest level of hierarchy (geGetAdjustedPath does this) but to find the objects in the current level is not that easy; there's clearly code doing that (otherwise the probing wouldn't know what to highlight) but I don't believe the APIs which do this are exposed at the SKILL level. So it would need quite a lot of reimplementation to do all that tracing - not something I have time (or the motivation!) to do, I'm afraid.

    So, the choices (other than trying to implement this yourself) are either to contact customer support and ask for an enhancement request to zoom to the probes, or to use the Dimming feature instead (Options->Display to turn it on). This will then automatically dim anything that isn't probed when probing is used - another way of making the probes stand out.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Having thought about this a bit more, it would be quite hard to implement in SKILL without doing a lot of work to trace a net to the current level of hierarchy. It's easy to find the net at the highest level of hierarchy (geGetAdjustedPath does this) but to find the objects in the current level is not that easy; there's clearly code doing that (otherwise the probing wouldn't know what to highlight) but I don't believe the APIs which do this are exposed at the SKILL level. So it would need quite a lot of reimplementation to do all that tracing - not something I have time (or the motivation!) to do, I'm afraid.

    So, the choices (other than trying to implement this yourself) are either to contact customer support and ask for an enhancement request to zoom to the probes, or to use the Dimming feature instead (Options->Display to turn it on). This will then automatically dim anything that isn't probed when probing is used - another way of making the probes stand out.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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