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Output a Testprep Report from SKILL?

Anyone know of a way to output a testprep report from SKILL? I know that we can use the extracta command with tstpoint.txt to get a test point list which is close but either only spits out the nets with test points or spits all of them out in an unsorted mess. I looked into spitting out a complete list of nets and comparing to the two to try and amass a list of all test points (and their X/Y coordinates) as well as a list of all nets w/out test points. However, as you may imagine this type of a parse job gets complicated pretty quick. Is there a trick anyone knows to get the Testprep report from the reports menu to output to a file via SKILL?

Bonus question: How can you remove and artwork film via SKILL? I can create them using axlCreate() but how do I get rid of them?

Thanks,

Will

Pawandeep over 10 years ago

I haven used any testprep reports in my designs so cant help. But look at axlTestPoint function

2nd question ans- look for axlGetParam and axlDeleteObject
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thewill2live over 10 years ago

Thanks for the tips Pawandeep. The axlTestPoint function doesn't play into my needs I'm afraid. It's used to assign test point status to a pin. The TestPrep report lists all nets with a test point (and gives the x,y coordinates of that test point) and all nets that are untested.

For the second one, thanks I'll take a look at that and see if it works out.
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oldmouldy over 10 years ago

You could take a look at the hl_ntp.il, Highlight Nets with No Test Point, from the Allegro SKILL library at the Cadence Support site. This not precisely what you need but there look to be routines within in that check that Pins or Vias are marked as testpoints which could be useful as a starting point to report their locations.
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thewill2live over 10 years ago

Thanks for the tip oldmouldy. I'll see what I can find to work with in that file.
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