Missing Instance pin....

[PolyPusher]

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
"I293ad_boac_66x80:io - hrx"
"I293ad_boac_66x80:vdd - vbatt"
"I293ad_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
"I293ad_boac_66x80:vdd - vbatt"
"I293ad_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 ;-)