( ESNUG 310 Item 3 ) ----------------------------------------------- [2/7/99]
Subject: Exactly How Does The Sunrise Test "Autopilot" Program Work ?
> Does anyone know how the Sunrise autopilot works? I have a "design_setup"
> file, and I used "autopilot -compile -tsc -noview" commend to generate the
> .tsc files. What will the output file's name be and how many *.tsc files
> will be generated? If I want the *.tsc file to be rename, should I do some
> thing with the design_setup file?
>
> - Anne Liu
> National Semiconductor Santa Clara, CA
From: NUKALA RAVIKANTH <ravikanth@msemi.com>
autopilot is a perl program which helps in generating (and maintaining )
the tsc files from the design setup file. It also maintains directory
structure for the flow.
When you use autopilot -compile -tsc -noview , a compile.tsc is created in
.srfiles directory. You can see the tsc file in Compile directory also.
The name of the tsc file is <netlist_name>.tsc.
For each step of the Sunrise flow (like compile, sdrc, atpg, etc... )
autopilot generates a different tsc file which has the relavant commands
for that particular step and maintains them in relevant directories .
One thing to remember is Sunrise has no concept of multiple tsc files.
So, though Autopilot generates a tsc file for each step, it will also
take care in using the relavant one when running a step in the flow.
For example, when you run autopilot -atpg , autopilot automatically uses
atpg.tsc file (in .srfiles directory) when running the program.
- Nukala Ravikanth
Meridian Semiconductors Irvine, CA
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