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Strongly connected pins inside pcells

I have a pcell where I create pins using rodCreateRect. I have multiple pins on top of each other and I want those to be strongly connected. They are all created with rodCreateRect and they are given the same netName and termName

Like this:

rodCreateRect(
?name "PIN1"
?layer "LAYER"
?width 1
?length 1
?netName "A"
?termName "A"
?pin t

rodCreateRect(
?name "PIN2"
?layer "LAYER"
?width 1
?length 1
?netName "A"
?termName "A"
?pin t

I order to do that they all must be pinFigs from the same pin, but how do I do that in this situation?

Andrew Beckett over 2 years ago

You can do it this way:

PIN1=rodCreateRect(
  ?name "PIN1"
  ?cvId cv
  ?layer "Metal2"
  ?width 1
  ?length 1
  ?netName "A"
  ?termName "A"
  ?pin t
)

PIN2=rodCreateRect(
  ?name "PIN2"
  ?cvId cv
  ?layer "Metal3"
  ?width 1
  ?length 1
  ;?netName "A"
  ;?termName "A"
  ;?pin t
)

dbAddFigToPin(PIN1~>dbId~>pin PIN2~>dbId)

I then checked on the support site and found exactly the same approach was described in this app note: Implementing Open Access Pin Connectivity Model in SKILL Pcells

Andrew

RVERP over 2 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Seems to work, thanks Andrew.
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FabianUSA over 1 year ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Hello

In the case the multiple pins are created with the following code

PIN1=rodCreateRect(
  ?name "PIN1"
  ?cvId cv
  ?layer "Metal2"
  ?width 1
  ?length 1
  ?netName "A"
  ?termName "A"
  ?pin t
  ?elementsX 3
  ?pinLabel t
)

How is it possible to make them strongly connected please?

Andrew Beckett over 1 year ago in reply to FabianUSA

Hi Fabian,

You can't - you have to use the approach that I described earlier in the thread.

Regards,

Andrew
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