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Skill script to add prefix to existing pins on schematic

TommasoF

Hi all,

I would need to take all the pins placed on an existing schematic and rename them by adding a prefix (or suffix). I navigated throughout the various threads of the forum and tried out several different solutions, but somehow they do not serve my need. I tried to write a script on my own, but I am a newbie on SKILL so it's not so easy...

Can somebody give me a hint on how to do that ?

thanks

Tommaso

  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Tommaso,

    Simply renaming the pins (probably terminals is what you really mean) is simple:

    cv=geGetEditCellView()
    foreach(term cv~>terminals term~>name=strcat("PRE_" term~>name))

    However, in practice you also need to fix the wire labels too, and that can get a bit more complicated if you have bus/bundle wire names (I'm not going to write the code to do that). Assuming it's just simple wire names, something like this could do the job:

    prefix="PRE_"
    foreach(term cv~>terminals
      ; rename simple wire labels
      foreach(fig term~>net~>figs
        when(fig~>objType=="label" && fig~>theLabel==term~>name
          fig~>theLabel=strcat(prefix fig~>theLabel)
        )
      )
      ; rename the terminals
      term~>name=strcat(prefix term~>name)
    )
    ; re-extract connectivity
    schCheck(cv)

    Andrew

  • TommasoF
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,

    thank you very much, that works perfectly!

    Tommaso 

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