21.3.65 open_smartdesign

Description

This Tcl command opens a SmartDesign. You must either open or create a SmartDesign before using any of the SmartDesign specific commands "sd_*".

Important: This command is not required to build a SmartDesign component. This command maps to an interactive user action in the SmartDesign Canvas and will not be present in the exported SmartDesign component Tcl description.
open_smartdesign [-sd_name "smartdesign_component_name"]

Arguments

Parameter Type Description
sd_name string Specifies the name of an existing SmartDesign component. It is mandatory. You can specify the name of SmartDesign as follow: {<design_name>} or {<design_name>::<module_name>}.

Error Codes

Error Code Description
None Parameter 'sd_name' has illegal value.

None

Parameter 'param_name' is not defined. Valid command formatting is 'open_smartdesign [-sd_name "sd_name"] '.

Supported Families

Supported Families
PolarFire®
RTG4
SmartFusion® 2
IGLOO® 2

Example

Open "top" SmartDesign from your project.

open_smartdesign -sd_name {top}

See Also