Tutorial

Christophe Reat

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laker2sled Release 1.1.0 – June 2008 Tutorial How to convert a project from the ECS family to SLED? 39, avenue du Granier B.P. 65 Inovallée 38242 Meylan France tel : +(33) 4 76 41 10 96 fax : +(33) 4 76 90 29 65 web : http://www.dolphin-integration.com e-mail : [e-mail] ƒƒƒIntroduction The aim of this tutorial is to make you familiar with the laker2sled converter. You will learn how to use it, and you will understand its parameters. 1 Introduction The laker2sled converter is a command line interface program that provides the possibility to convert an ECS project to a SLED design or library. The role of this converter is to provide an easy way of reusing ECS projects in SLED without much porting effort. This tool is provided with the SLED application and its working is the same for all platforms (Window, Solaris, and Linux). This program is located in: {SledInstallPath}/bin Example on a Windows platform: C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\bin 1.1 Requirements This tutorial requires that some software be installed on your computer: ECS family software The laker2sled converter uses some functionality of the ECS family software. To use laker2sled, the ECS family software must be installed and laker2sled must be able to access to the ECS family software install path. Laker2sled converter SLED to edit the converted ECS project 1.2 Supported schematic editors Generally all schematic editors of ...

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• Publié par: Soim
• Nombre de lectures: 66
• Langue: English

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laker2sl e d   Release 1.1.0  June 2008 

   

 T u to r ial   How   t o   co n vert   a   p r ojec t   f rom   t he   ECS   f am i ly   to   SL ED ?  

 

  39, avenue du Granier B.P. 65 Inovallée 38242 Meylan France tel : +(33) 4 76 41 10 96 fax : +(33) 4 76 90 29 65 web : ttp://www.dolphin-integration.com    h e-mail : [e-mail]   

 

Introduction 

The aim of this tutorial is to make you familiar with the laker2sled converter. You will learn how to use it, and you will understand its parameters.   1   Introduction The laker2sled converter is a command line interface program that provides the possibility to convert an ECS project to a SLED design or library. The role of this converter is to provide an easy way of reusing ECS projects in SLED without much porting effort.   This tool is provided with the SLED application and its working is the same for all platforms (Window, Solaris, and Linux). This program is located in:   { SledInstallPath }/bin   Example on a Windows platform: C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\bin   1.1   Requirements    This tutorial requires that some software be installed on your computer: ƒ   ECS family software The laker2sled converter uses some functionality of the ECS family software. To use laker2sled, the ECS family software must be installed and laker2sled must be able to access to the ECS family software install path. ƒ   Laker2sled converter ƒ   SLED to edit the converted ECS project   1.2   Supported schematic editors Generally all schematic editors of the ECS family (ECS, Synario Capture, Cohesion AMS- Designer and Laker-AMS) with asy (for symbols) and asc (for schematics) file formats are supported. Since there are some configuration aspects to be considered (like directory structures, configuration file structure) the schematic editors currently used by Dolphin Integration (Synario 4.1 and Laker-AMS 6.1 as well as Cohesion 6) are tested.

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Example laker2sled invocation

  2   Example laker2sled invocation In this section, we will use the laker2sled program to convert a complete hierarchy from Laker-AMS 6.1p5 to SLED.   In our example:   •   SLED is installed in: C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110   •   Laker-AMS is installed in: C:\SiCanvas\Laker-AMS6p5    •   The Laker-AMS data is located in: C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\examples\tutorials\laker2sled\    Note:  This data is provided by the SLED setup   We will perform the conversion on a Windows XP platform, but the progression is the same on the other platforms.   2.1   Step 1  Open a Command Line Interface Use the Windows Start menu to launch a windows command prompt Start -> All Programs - > Accessories -> Command Prompt The Command Line Interface appears.  

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Laker2SLED - Tutorial

  2.2   Step 2  Go the laker2sled directory In the command prompt window enter the change directory command and the laker2sled path and press the ‘Enter’ key.   cd C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\bin   2.3   Step 3  Display the help of laker2sled To check that the laker2sled program is correctly installed, we will display its help. In the command prompt, enter the command:   laker2sled help --   The laker2sled hel is dis la ed in the command rom t window

  Note:  When laker2sled is started, its release number is displayed (the release used here is 1.1.0).   The --help parameter allows displaying the list of parameters supported by laker2sled and an explanation on each of them.   •   --ecs-install-dir <path> This parameter allows specifying the installation directory of the ECS family software. laker2sled has to know where the ECS family software is located because it uses the asyout.exe and ascout.exe ECS tools during the conversion process.   Example:   --ecs-install-dir D:\SiCanvas\Laker-AMS6p5   If this parameter is not provided, laker2sled will use the default installation directory ( C:\SiCanvas\Laker-AMS6p5 )     •   --ecs-config-file <file>

 

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Example laker2sled invocation

Each ECS installation has a default configuration file. For using the correct settings for the library conversion process   •   --ecs-dir <path> This parameter provides the directory of the ECS library or ECS design to convert. This parameter is of course mandatory and in our example it will be:   --ecs-dir “C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\examples\tutorials\laker2sled\ecs project” _ Note: If the directory contains space characters, you must specify the directory in double quote characters (). •   --ecs-design-ini <file> This parameter allows specifying the configuration file of the design. This parameter is only useful if you convert an ECS design. This parameter is not mandatory, if this parameter is not provided, laker2sled will read the default design configuration file <ecs-dir>\ecs.ini (if it exists).     -ecs-asy-pin-patch=yes|no • - Some pin name positions in ECS symbol files are not converted correctly by the ECS converter asyout.exe. If this option is set to yes, laker2sled will fix this pin position issue. This parameter is not mandatory. laker2sled fixes the pin name position by default.   •   --ecs-map-attributes=yes|no  If this option is set to yes, laker2sled will map the ECS attributes to SLED attributes during the conversion process. Laker2sled will use the mapping definition set in the laker2sled.map file. This parameter is not mandatory, laker2sled maps the ECS attributes by default. •   --sled-library-dir <path> This parameter allows specifying the directory where the converted library will be created. This parameter is mandatory if you convert an ECS library, and the directory must exist before starting the conversion.      --sled-design-dir <path> • This parameter allows specifying the directory where the converted design will be created. This parameter is mandatory if you convert an ECS design, and the directory must exist before starting the laker2sled tool.     v | --verbose • - If this parameter is set, laker2sled provides more details during the conversion process.   •   -h | --help If you use laker2sled with this parameter, the laker2sled help will be displayed.   2.4   Step 4 - Find the Laker-AMS sample The Laker AMS sample is provided in the SLED installation, and in our example it is located in: C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\examples\tutorials\laker2sled\ecs project _   Use a windows explorer to find it.   2.5   Step 5 - Create the SLED output directory Before using the laker2sled converter, you have to create the SLED output directory where the ECS project will be exported.   With the windows explorer create the directory: C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\examples\tutorials\laker2sled\sled project _

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Laker2SLED - Tutorial

  2.6   Step 6 - Convert the ECS project to a SLED design To convert the ECS project to a SLED design, enter the following command in the command prompt and press the ‘Enter’ key: laker2sled --ecs-install-dir C:\SiCanvas\Laker-AMS6p5 --ecs-dir "C:\Program _ Files\Dolphin\Sled110\examples\tutorials\laker2sled\ecs project" --sled-design- _ dir "C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\examples\tutorials\laker2sled\sled project" --sled-library-dir "C:\Program _ Files\Dolphin\Sled110\examples\tutorials\laker2sled\sled project" --sled- design=yes  

  When the conversion ends, laker2sled displays the result in the command prompt. The result of this conversion is a design called ‘ecs_project’. The generated design directory is located in: _ C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\examples\tutorials\laker2sled\sled project   This design directory contains a design properties file (properties.dfp) and a library directory. The library of the design called worklib contains all the data converted from the ECS data.   In the Annex section, you’ll see the result of the conversion of the schematic view of the cell fullader .   Note:  Both warnings occur because laker2sled tried to map the ECS Symbol attributes ‘33’ and ‘145’ but these attributes are not defined in the ECS application configuration file (ecs.ini).   2.7   Step 7 - Convert the ECS project to a SLED library To convert the ECS project to a SLED library enter the same command except for the last parameter --sled-design , for this parameter set it value to no.   The result of this conversion is a library called ‘ecs_project’. The generated library directory is located in: _ C:\Program Files\Dolphin\Sled110\examples\tutorials\laker2sled\sled project Page 8/13 Copyright 2008    

 

 

This library directory contains a library properties converted from the ECS data.   This library can be added to a SLED design.

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  3   Annex 3.1   Initial fulladder schematic view in Laker AMS  

Figure 1 - Schematic view of the fullader cell in Laker AMS   3.2   Result of the fulladder schematic view conversion in SLED  

 

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Figure 2 - Schematic view of the fullader cell in SLED

 

Annex

 

 

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