How to Customize CDL Netlist?

CDL Out defines various hnl functions and variables that control the CDL Out netlist format. If these func tions and variables are already defined, CDL Out does not overwrite them. You can override the value of variables or functions used in CDL Out by defining them before invoking CDL Out. This can be done by loading a SKILL file before running CDL Out or by defining the variables in .simrc or .cdsinit file. To see details about the various variables and functions that can be overridden, see Customizing the Hierarchical Netlister (HNL) .

Example - Customizing CDL Netlist

The variable hnlCommentStr defines the string that is placed at the beginning of a comment in the output netlist file. By default, ‘*’ is used by CDL Out to represent the comments. If you put the value of hnlCommentStr variable to ‘>’ in the .simrc file, then the comments start with ‘>’.

For information about CDL Out SKILL functions, see the Design Data Translators SKILL Reference .