SKILL - lemarknet() highlighting only particular layers

Hi

I made you a code snippet from different scripts I had
Hope this does the job you want

Don't hesitate if you have any question

Cheers
Aurélien

;; SKILL++ is necessary for several reasons
;; - Parameters can be dependent as they are
;; defined in sequential orders (same as letseq)
;; - It allows to define local functions but
;; provide only the specified ones in global name space
(inScheme

  ;; Closure so functions are defined locally by default
  ;; Variables defined here are shared between those functions
  ;; but do not pollute global name space
  (let (hl_set)

    (defun reset_hl_set (win)
      "Delete previous highlight set and make sure current one is valid"
      ;; Delete hl_set when it exists already
      (when hl_set (geDeleteHilightSet hl_set))
      ;; Create an highlight set and enable it
      (setq hl_set (geCreateWindowHilightSet win '("hilite" "drawing1")))
      (setf hl_set->enable t)
      (geSetHilightSetHaloParameters hl_set "over" "fadeout" "thin" 20)
      )

    ;; The following function is global thanks to defglobalfun
    (defglobalfun custom_highlight_net_shapes (@key (win (hiGetCurrentWindow))
                                                    (cv  (geGetWindowCellView win))
                                                    ;; Here you can provide either ?net_names as a list of strings
                                                    ;; or ?nets as net dbobjects
                                                    net_names
                                                    (nets (foreach mapcar name net_names (dbFindNetByName cv name)))
                                                    layer_names
                                               ;; Safety measure and support for future developments
                                               ;; This avoid issues in case the function arguments change
                                               @rest _args)
      "Highlight NETS shapes in LAYERS"
      ;; Reset highlight set
      (reset_hl_set win)
      ;; Browse nets
      (foreach net nets
        (when (and net (dbIsId net) (equal "net" net->objType))
          ;; Highlight net figs of the specified layers
          (foreach fig net->figs
            (when (member fig->layerName layer_names)
              ;; Highlight fig
              (geAddHilightFig hl_set fig)
              ))
          ;; Fetch net instance pin shapes as well
          (foreach conn net->memInstTerms
            (setq conn (car conn))
            (let ((inst conn->inst))
              (foreach pin conn->term->pins
                (foreach fig pin->figs
                  (when (member fig->layerName layer_names)
                    ;; Best I found here is to highlight instance shapes rectangles
                    ;; Instance figs are not highlighted using geAddHilightFig
                    ;; I believe it would be highlighting the master fig and
                    ;; not the instanciated one
                    (geAddHilightRectangle hl_set (dbTransformBBox fig->bBox inst->transform))
                    ))))
          ));foreach net
      );def

    );closure
  );SKILL++

Hi  Aurélien,

Thanks for the Reply.  Based on my understanding of the script you provided, we need net info to highlight the net. 

But I only have the XY coordinate information and the desired metal layer information to highlight a net.

You could create an options file something like this:

# Do not remove or change these header lines.
# markNetOptions file version 1.0
viaLayers(
Metal3 y0 Metal4 t
)

I am wanting to do a mark net with Metal3 - so I created a dummy via using y0 as the via layer (so that doesn't exist), and hence it will only mark Metal3 (if I start from Metal3). Then you can pass ?optionFile to the leMarkNet function.

Andrew

Thanks Andrew. 
The above method solved my issue.

Hi  Aurélien,

How Am I supposed to use that script? I call the function custom_highlight_net_shapes with different arguments and none works. also called the whole script and don't work. 

I'm already using .ils file. Also tried with toplevel('ils)

In case this is the problem, I added a ")" at the end, cause there was missing one and didn't allow me to load the script without it


getVersion()->virtuoso version 6.1.8-64b
getVersion("virtuoso")->sub-version IC6.1.8-64b.500.22