The names of ports, instances, and nets in an imported netlist are sometimes referred to as their original names. Port names appear exactly as they are defined in a netlist. For example, a port named A/B appears as A/B in ChipPlanner, PinEditor, and I/O Attribute Editor in MultiView Navigator. Instances and nets display the original names plus an escape character (\) before each backslash (/) and each slash (\) that is not a hierarchy separator. For example, the instance named A/\B is displayed as A\/\\B.
Following are Designer's naming conventions by device.
The following components use the Tcl-compliant original names:
PDC reader/writer
SDC reader/writer
Compile report
SDF/Netlist writer for back annotation
MultiView Navigator tools: NetlistViewer, PinEditor, ChipPlanner, and I/O Attribute Editor
SmartTime
SmartPower
The following components use the Tcl-compliant original names:
SDC reader/writer
MultiView Navigator tools: NetlistViewer, PinEditor, ChipPlanner, and I/O Attribute Editor
SmartTime
GCF follows the netlist original names; therefore, use the original names when referring to ports, instances, and nets in GCF files.