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Sonnet User's Guide - Sonnet Software

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<strong>Sonnet</strong> User’s <strong>Guide</strong><br />

Networks<br />

A netlist project contains a netlist which consists of one or more networks with<br />

elements connected together. The netlist provides a map in which the ports of individual<br />

elements in the netlist are connected to the ports of other elements by the<br />

use of nodes. Nodes represent a connection between netlist elements.<br />

example_net<br />

steps.son<br />

steps.son<br />

1 2 3 4<br />

1 2<br />

GND<br />

The picture above shows the network represented by the netlist shown in the project<br />

editor below it. The nodes are represented by the numbered black dots. The geometry<br />

project, steps.son, is connected between nodes 1 and 2 with node 1<br />

corresponding to Port 1 in the geometry project and node 2 corresponding to Port<br />

2. A resistor is connected between nodes 2 and 3. A capacitor is connected between<br />

node 3 and ground. The project steps.son is also connected between nodes<br />

3 and 4, with Port 1 corresponding to node 4 and Port 2 corresponding to node 3.<br />

Port 1 of the network example_net corresponds to node 1 and port 2 of the network<br />

corresponds to node 4.<br />

A netlist project is simply a list of these elements, as you can see in the netlist pictured<br />

above. Notice that the first number after the name of the element is the network<br />

node which corresponds to port 1 of the element, the second number is the<br />

network node which corresponds to port 2 of the element, and so on, for all the<br />

ports in an element.<br />

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