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Schematic instance/symbol swap error

psill000

I am working on a script to swap instance in a schematic but I get an error when I do the instance  swap

command I use to swap the instances

leReplaceAnyInstMaster(inst lName cName inst~>viewName)

The message I get in the CIW

*WARNING* (DEBASE-102124): (deCheckTier-1) Command needs an application of tier "better", which is higher
than the "good" tier of application "Schematics"

Its a warning but the instance is not being replaced.

If I run the script with the cellview open in XL mode I dont get the error.

Is there a way to run the leReplaceAnyInstMaster with lxRunCmdInVXL or open the schematic cellview in xl mode?

Paul

  • Andrew Beckett

    Paul,

    I was reviewing a CCR which discussed the use of this function with schematics, and the suggestion there is that whilst this might work, there's a chance it might not in the future. The function is clearly a layout editor function, so using (or abusing) it to remaster schematics is a bit of a risk as the code may break in future.

    I'd probably use the db layer to do this. Either dbSetInstHeaderMasterName if you want to change all instances of a particular master to a new master, or open the new cellView you wish to be the master, and set ~>master on the instance to that.

    Andrew.

  • psill000
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    I tried both ~>master and  dbSetInstHeaderMasterName and it did not, took  break and  dbSetInstHeaderMasterName worked.

    I guess it went to the healing server while I was on break.

    Big Thanks Andrew

  • drdanmc
    in reply to psill000

    be careful if the instances have parameters or CDF callbacks.  If so, you'll need to trigger the callbacks and maybe even do some mapping of CDF parameters.  But if you don't have that situation, remastering should be fine.

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