skill code to automatically connect power pins in schematic

Hi Nhumai,

Try pressing the Space Bar which should invoke the schHiCreateWireStubs() function - for one or more instance(s) it can create wire stubs at all or specified terminals; you can 'register' certain terminals so that only those will have connections made for them, rather than all instance terminals.

Hopefully this will help you.

Best regards,

Lawrence.

Hi Lawrence,

I tried it and it is working but I do have couple questions about it 

1/ how can I register terminal ? 

2/ how can I control the length and the direction of the piece of wire schHiCreateWireStubs() drop on the terminal ? The reason is  we have a legacy data base and all the power pins is very close to each other if the wire is  a little long or not in the correct direction then they short together 

thanks 

Nhumai 

Glad to see my original suggestion in your other post worked for you ;-)

You can register terminals interactively by hitting the "..." button next to the line with "registered terminals only" on the create instance form, or using the Options->Register Net Name per Terminal menu (you then have to select the pin on an instance and give it the net name to use).

Probably easier is to use SKILL:

ciRegisterDevice("MyBlocks" list(list("opamp090" nil nil)))
ciRegisterDefaultNetName("MyBlocks" "VDD" "AVDD")
ciRegisterDefaultNetName("MyBlocks" "VSS" "AVSS")

If you want it to be for all libraries, then the first line can be:

ciRegisterDevice("MyBlocks" list(list(nil nil nil)))

The stub length can be controlled using:

envSetVal("schematic" "stubLength" 'int 1)

(the default is 2). Search in the Help menu (in the box at the top) for stubLength for more details.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

thanks a lot for you suggestion. Let me try them now and I might have more questions :-) 

thanks again 

Nhumai 

Hi Andrew,

thanks a lot for you suggestion. Let me try them now and I might have more questions :-) 

thanks again 

Nhumai