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Is there a way of accessing the full net name of a net object in a hierarchical design?

MatthewLove

Is there a way of accessing the full net name of a net object in a hierarchical design?

Example

A schematic contains two instances of the same object, called I0 and I1, which have internal nets of "in" and "out", like in the image below.

If I want to plot the voltages associated with the nets I need to use the full net names of "/I0/in" and "/I1/in".

Is there a way to find the full net names from the instances' database objects?

I can traverse the hierarchy and find the database objects for I0 and I1 but the net and signal objects connected to their terminals will just be listed as "in" and "out", which can't be directly plotted.

An alternative question for the same issue would be: are there any functions for directly plotting signal objects rather than needing their associated net names?

If I have the instance object and the signal object associated with one of its nets, is there a way to just plot the signal directly?

Functions like vtime require strings of the net names and can't use database objects.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Maybe this SKILL utility to show hierarchical net name for a selected wire in a schematic will help you?

    Note that depends on you having descended down in the hierarchy through the schematic editor so that it knows the hierarchical path. The same thing happens when you use the vtime function in the calculator and then click on a node. I'm not entirely sure how you're intending to use such a function - whether it's for interactive use or some batch adding of nodes to be saved somehow.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • MatthewLove
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,

    This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

    >I'm not entirely sure how you're intending to use such a function 

    I frequently use scripts to plot transistor voltages in my designs and I want to automate the plotting instead of hardcoding the net names in the script.

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  • MatthewLove
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,

    This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

    >I'm not entirely sure how you're intending to use such a function 

    I frequently use scripts to plot transistor voltages in my designs and I want to automate the plotting instead of hardcoding the net names in the script.

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