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Pin labels in Virtuoso from Encounter OA

nevsan
I'm trying to get a mixed signal environment up and running. I can save the Encounter database to OA using an interoperable PDK (standard cell/routing tech lef in OA referencing base PDK). The layout looks fine in Virtuoso, but one thing that I am missing is pin labels (the kind I need for LVS). The wierd thing is that if I stream the design out from Encounter to GDSII and then stream it in, all of the pin labels are there on the proper layers. They just don't show up in the OA layout (doesn't matter whether I use saveDesign or oaOut).
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  • Thanks. Given what I've read, it seems to be more of a missing feature than a bug. I'm really quite surprised that this little piece of the Mixed Signal interoperability puzzle isn't naturally part the EDI => Virtuoso workflow. We can't LVS the block by itself without pin labels and I can't get my layouters using Layout-L to connect to it correctly without pin labels. Hopefully my script will help out others that want a more complete export out of EDI and into OA.
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  • Thanks. Given what I've read, it seems to be more of a missing feature than a bug. I'm really quite surprised that this little piece of the Mixed Signal interoperability puzzle isn't naturally part the EDI => Virtuoso workflow. We can't LVS the block by itself without pin labels and I can't get my layouters using Layout-L to connect to it correctly without pin labels. Hopefully my script will help out others that want a more complete export out of EDI and into OA.
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