creating PINs from selected nets in schematic

Naresh,

Not sure why you are using "\n" to concatenate all the names together on the strcat() line. If you change it to " " (a space) then it will work fine.

Or you could simply replace the foreach loop with:

netname=buildString(ss~>net~>name)

which is simpler still (of course, there's no error checking that everything selected has a net name - you could solve that by adding a setof to filter. I also added some local variable declarations and also enqueued the toggling of the enter form:

procedure(CreatePinFromselNet()
  let((ss netname)
    ss = geGetSelectedSet()
    netname = buildString(setof(nn ss~>net~>name stringp(nn)))

    printf("You can make the following pins in the schematic by clicking wherever you want %s" netname)
    hiEnqueueCmd("hiToggleEnterForm(schCreatePinForm)")
    schHiCreatePin( ?terminalName netname ?direction "input" ?usage "schematic" )
  )
)

Andrew

Thank you Andrew ... 

Thank you for your response. I can now generate pins form the selected bus nets. 

while creating this pin , How can I add prifix or sufix to each pin ? 

To add the prifix, I'm replacing stringp(nn) with strcat("prix" nn) in the above script, but it's not working. 

could you please help how can i do this ?

Regards 

Naresh 

Hi Naresh,

I strongly advise you to follow some SKILL training to understand what is going on in Andrew's script, you can find many articles in Cadence support

This one is a good starting point: Where do I look for SKILL example codes, tutorials, and trainings?

You should at least lookup and understand the following basic functions : 

list
quote ‘
cons
car
cdr
nth
progn
prog1
let
if
when
unless
cond
case
foreach
setof
exists
forall
concat
strcat

To do so, in Virtuoso main window (CIW) you go to the banner menu 'Tools' -> 'SKILL API Finder' and you can obtain the documentation for each function

You can now see that `setof` is a function to filter a list using a predicate and that `stringp` is a predicate to check that the provided object is a string

By doing : 

netname = buildString(setof(nn ss~>net~>name stringp(nn)))

Andrew is creating a concatenated string containing all valid names from ss~>net~>name

You cannot just replace `stringp` by `strcat` because those two functions are not doing the same thing at all!

What you can do is : building the list of prefixed names, and then concatenate them.

ss = geGetSelectedSet()

;; Filter empty names
netname = setof(nn ss~>net~>name stringp(nn))

;; Remove duplicated names (you might want to do that)
netname = removeListDuplicates(netname)

;; Prefix names
netname =  foreach( mapcar nn netname strcat("prix" nn) ) 

;; Build final string
netname = buildString( netname )

Note that this is not the more efficient way to do it (you browse your list several times) however it is quite clear to do it step by step and also you would have to select a huge amount of objects before having performances issues

Hope this helps,

Aurélien