Routing info in Cadence Encounter

 You can find the length of a net using the command getNetWireLength <netName>. You can also get connectivity information from the command report_net -net <netName>. I don't know if there's a built in command that gives layer info on a specific net though.

Won't the DEF file generated at the end have layer and connectivity info for each net ?

Yes you can search the DEF file to get the layer and connectivity info. I thought you were asking for a command that would generate a formatted report.

I don't know of any built-ins that will report that specific of information but it is all attainable from the Tcl interface.  Let me know if you want to pursue this route and I can throw down some sample code (I'm not at my work computer right now).  Something to do with dbForEachNetWire or something.

Great suggestions here so far- thanks a lot to the customers helping out!

A couple of additional options I'd offer up for your consideration:

• Have a look at the reportWire command.  Here is some sample output:

  ratio     wire_length   manhattan    vias  fanIn  fanOut net_name

                          length

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------

  1.08 Total  177.090     164.16 Total  4     1      1   dOut2[1]

     M1         7.650       V01   0

     M2       103.440       V12   2

     M3        66.000       V23   2

     M4         0.000       V34   0

     M5         0.000       V45   0

     M6         0.000       V56   0

• You could use dbGet to query information about wire segments.  For example, if you wanted to know the layer of each wire segment for a given net:
  
  encounter 34> dbGet [dbGet -p top.nets.name tdsp_portO[14]].wires.layer.name
  M6 M6 M2 M3 M3 M4 M6 M5
  

More information on getting started with dbGet can be found in this blog entry by Kari Summers.

Hope this helps!
Bob

Hello,

Could you please give me more details on how to use reportWire?

Thanks,

Javad