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Merging Config Editor and its subconfigs

Shankar PA

Hi

I have a massive schematic testbench with a top level config view(using hierarchy editor). In this many of the blocks are bound indirectly using subconfig views.  I have shown a sample tree like structure below. The terms in brackets represent either a cell bind/instance bind. There is no upfront information on the depth at which the subconfig is located.

 

I wanted to create a new single flat hierarchy configuration(hierarchy editor) for the top level testbench(that would generate the same netlist) Currently I am building the entire config manually by visually looking at the top and subconfigs. This is error prone and is consuming lot of time.  I would like to do this in an automated way through skill. I don't see any public API's to do this in Virtuoso/Skill. Any pointers on how to accomplish this?

Thanks & Regards

Shankar

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  • I'm not aware of anything to do this (it seems a rather atypical requirement), and certainly there's no SKILL API to do all the work for you. Without spending a lot of time thinking about it and trying various examples, no immediate thoughts from me as to how to automate this.

    Regards,

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew

    Thanks for the quick reply. I didn't mention why I am doing this though!

    From the newly created flat configuration, I would modify bindings for few cells(that were originally located inside the sub config) for debug simulations. I would otherwise need to create several parallel sub config views(and many times i don't have write access to some of these subconfig cells)

    On a different note, is it possible to fetch the bindings for cells/instance from a hdbObject. I could see many skill functions starting with "hdb" are used to assign values, but don't know how to read back the states/bindings. This way, may be, I can cook up something that would work for my specific requirement

    Thanks & Regards

    Shankar

  • in reply to Shankar PA

    Hi Shankar,

    You're right, there's not an hdbGetObjBindRule (strange, I'd not noticed that was missing). This seems an omission to me, and so I'd suggest you contact customer support.

    The closest option I can see right now is to use hdbBind, have it return the signature and bindWhy data, and then pass this to hdbExplainBinding. That returns a text string with the information, but it's mostly for explanation rather than programmatic use (so it would need to be pulled apart to get the actual binding information). Not sure that's terribly helpful.

    Andrew

  • in reply to Shankar PA

    Maybe you can use the Config Sweep functionality from Assembler to modify the bindings of the cells.

  • in reply to Frank Wiedmann

    Thanks for the tip. Need to explore on this to see if it does suit on my requirements

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