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Interface EdifBusNetNamingPolicy

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicEdifBusNetNamingPolicy

public interface EdifBusNetNamingPolicy

Defines an interface for different naming policies for individual nets within a bus. Since EDIF does not have a standard for naming individual wires of a bus, different tools implement such naming in an ad-hoc way. This interface defines a set of methods required for implementing a "policy" for naming individual nets that are part of a bus. Any class that implements this interface will be able to identify nets that are part of a bus and identify their bit position within the bus.

Author:

Michael J Wirthlin

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getBusBaseName(java.lang.String name) Return the basename of the single bit net without the bit number.
int	getBusPosition(java.lang.String name) Returns the bit position of the Net within the bus.
boolean	isValidBusNetName(java.lang.String name) Returns true if the given name is valid under the given naming policy.

Method Detail

isValidBusNetName

boolean isValidBusNetName(java.lang.String name)

Returns true if the given name is valid under the given naming policy. This method should only return true if the naming policy can return both the basename and bit position of the net.

getBusPosition

int getBusPosition(java.lang.String name)

Returns the bit position of the Net within the bus. Will return a non-negative value if the string is valid. Otherwise, it returns -1.

getBusBaseName

java.lang.String getBusBaseName(java.lang.String name)

Return the basename of the single bit net without the bit number. This method will should return a null if the name does not match the bus naming policy.