Is a net name starting with a number legal in Cadence OpenAc

[Arklin K.]

Is a net name starting with a number (0-9) legal or illegal in IC61 on
OpenAccess, e.g., "1*net1".

 

[Andrew Beckett]

On 07/10/12 02:26, Arklin K. wrote:

Is a net name starting with a number (0-9) legal or illegal in IC61 on
OpenAccess, e.g., "1*net1".

Yes. Did you try it?

In general I would advise against ever using net names which begin with
numbers, or have "unusual" characters in (such as the *) because
although they should get mapped in netlisters when the destination
language does not support that character, there's always a chance that
some downstream tool has a problem with the character, plus the fact
that it can be confusing if you're suddenly trying to debug at the
netlist level and the netlister has mapped the name due to it being
illegal in that namespace.

Regards,

Andrew.