HDL Designer Series Command Reference

Version 2018.1

Description
A component instance in a block diagram, IBD or structural HDL text file.


$instance child ()

Obtains the architecture under the component instance.
Returns: The architecture object.

$instance configure (args)

with no arguments lists the names and values of all options
with one argument lists the value of the specified option
The following options are available:
name :
startLine : the line number where the declaration begins in the source file
class : identifies the object as an instance
Argument: args see above

$instance configuredChild (frameConfiguration)

Like 'child' but supporting VHDL configuration declarations.
Argument: frameConfiguration see frameConfigurationRefApi.tcl
Returns: a 3 element list containing:
the configuration declaration object, if specified in the component binding see configurationRefApi.tcl
the architecture object, see architectureRefApi.tcl
the frame configuration for the root of the child architecture


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