In huge electrical plants this is solved with a different net name at the connector of each power cell (the equivalent of your board). This net name shows precisely from where it comes the cable and where it goes and is written on every wire using a white polyethylene isolation. There are hundreds of thousands. I will not trust any automatic software doing this job. On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:19 PM, peter green wrote: > I have a system consisting of multiple boards. Some of these boards are > quite generic (with FPGAs etc on them) so the net names aren't always > especially meaningful in the context of the system. Sometimes there may > be multiple boards of the same type in the system. Keeping track of > which signal is which across multiple boards so that I can feed that > information into my FPGA tools is becoming a pain. > > What I would like is a program where I can import a netlist for each > board (either exported from altium or created by hand depending on > whether I have the design files for the board in question) and then tell > it how the boards are connected together (e.g. P1 on board X is plugged > into J1 on board Y, S1 on board Y is connected to S2 on board Z via a > cable that reverses the pin numbers etc) and then provide me (either > through a UI or through exporting a text file with a system level view > of the nets so I can easilly look up which pin on a chip one one board > connects to which pin on a chip on another board). > > Does anything like this exist or should I start writing it. > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .