Get netnames connected to a Macro terminals

Just to clarify further, macro can be considered as a Standard Cell used on chip level. I need to access the nets connected to it.

Bit of an imprecise question - not entirely sure what you want or what you're starting from. Something like this:

; start from the cellView in the current window. Assume I have instName as a variable containing the instance name (e.g. "I0")
cv=geGetEditCellView()
inst=dbFindAnyInstByName(cv instName)
instTerms=inst~>instTerms
; if you just want the net objects, it would be:
instTerms~>net
; if you want a list of the terminal names and net names, it would be:
connData=foreach(mapcar instTerm instTerms list(instTerm~>name instTerm~>net~>name))

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Wish you a very happy new year and thanks for replying. I have a testchip design(gds) which is done by some other team and my team wants to know the nets which are connected to the IO pads(GPIO IP). I tried the above code but I got nil after executing the third command(instTerms=inst~>instTerms) even after getting a valid dbId for inst.

Can you please help here.

Thanks for your precious time.

Utkarsh

Andrew Beckett said:

instTerms=inst~>instTerms

That helps - you didn't even mention that it was layout you were talking about. I assumed you were dealing with a schematic or a layout using Layout XL (which does contain connectivity).

If the design was in stream (GDS) format, then it will not contain connectivity - so unless you have a connectivity source (e.g. schematic) and can extract the connectivity with Virtuoso Layout Suite XL using (say) Update Binding, then you're not going to find the connectivity using SKILL, since it's not in the database.

Andrew.

Thankyou Andrew for your time. I will let my design team know the same.