Missing Instance pin....

Discussion in 'Cadence' started by PolyPusher, Sep 15, 2009.

  1. PolyPusher

    PolyPusher Guest

    Hi all,

    I am reposting my question as I fear I wasn't clear in what I was
    asking. While updating components and nets one of the Cells being
    used had a pin missing. Is there any information in the data base at
    this level of heirarchy that I updated components and nets that one
    could get using skill routine(on the layout)? Is there a way to get
    the info that the pin was missing after the update? Another CAD
    Tool I used, which was inferior to Cadence and owned by a corporation
    that practices Satan worship, or so it appeared by beeing an Employee
    had a concept where if this occured you could ask for "floating pins"
    and it would put a number on any component, instance, whatever in that
    level of
    heirarchy that had a missing pin on a cell instantiated.

    Thank you in advance for any help,
    Eric



    I have a master that is LVS clean with Calibre, but one of the pins
    is
    not being recognized by layout XL(It appears to be the case). When
    this master(cell) is used in the next level of heirarchy, the issue
    outlined below happens...

    schematic has:


    geGetSelectedSet(cvSch)~>instTerms~>net~>name
    (("vbatt" "gnd" "hrx"))


    Where the mapping from the instance to these names are


    Instance:Cellname:instTerms - Signal
    "I293:pad_boac_66x80:io - hrx"
    "I293:pad_boac_66x80:vdd - vbatt"
    "I293:pad_boac_66x80:vss - gnd"


    After bringing this pad_boac_66x80 cell into the database(next level
    of heirarchy) the io instTerm
    is missing in layout and the mapping looks like this.


    geGetSelectedSet(cvLay)~>instTerms~>net~>name
    (("vbatt" "gnd"))


    Mapping ends up being.....


    Instance:Cellname:instTerms - Signal
    "I293:pad_boac_66x80:vdd - vbatt"
    "I293:pad_boac_66x80:vss - gnd"


    .....which obviously breaks the connectivity.


    I want to ride some Skill code to find this issue in layout, but
    cannot find any info on the missing pin, broken connectivity. Is
    this possible and if so does anyone have any ideas how to do this?


    Thank you in advance for any help,
    PolyPusher ;-)
     
    PolyPusher, Sep 15, 2009
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