get_path_groups - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835)

Document ID
UG835
Release Date
2020-11-18
Version
2020.2 English

Get a list of path groups in the current design

Syntax

get_path_groups [‑regexp] [‑nocase] [‑quiet] [‑verbose] [<patterns>]

Returns

list of path groups

Usage

Name Description
[-regexp] Patterns are full regular expressions
[-nocase] Perform case-insensitive matching (valid only when -regexp specified)
[-quiet] Ignore command errors
[-verbose] Suspend message limits during command execution
[<patterns>] Match path group names against patterns Default: *

Categories

XDC, Object

Description

Gets a list of timing path groups in the current project that match a specified search pattern. The default command gets a list of all path groups in the design.

Path groups are automatically created when a new clock is created in the design, containing all paths in that clocks domain. Path groups can also be manually created with the use of the group_path command.

Note: To improve memory and performance, the get_* commands return a container list of a single type of objects (e.g. cells, nets, pins, or ports). You can add new objects to the list (using lappend for instance), but you can only add the same type of object that is currently in the list. Adding a different type of object, or string, to the list is not permitted and will result in a Tcl error.

Arguments

-regexp - (Optional) Specifies that the search <patterns> are written as regular expressions. Both search <patterns> and -filter expressions must be written as regular expressions when this argument is used. Xilinx regular expression Tcl commands are always anchored to the start of the search string. You can add ".*" to the beginning or end of a search string to widen the search to include a substring. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html for help with regular expression syntax.
Note: The Tcl built-in command regexp is not anchored, and works as a standard Tcl command. For more information refer to http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/regexp.htm.

-nocase - (Optional) Perform case-insensitive matching when a pattern has been specified. This argument applies to the use of -regexp only.

-quiet - (Optional) Execute the command quietly, returning no messages from the command. The command also returns TCL_OK regardless of any errors encountered during execution.
Note: Any errors encountered on the command-line, while launching the command, will be returned. Only errors occurring inside the command will be trapped.
-verbose - (Optional) Temporarily override any message limits and return all messages from this command.
Note: Message limits can be defined with the set_msg_config command.

<patterns> - (Optional) Match path groups against the specified patterns. The default pattern is the wildcard '*' which gets all path groups in the project.

Examples

The following example gets a list of all the path groups in the design.
get_path_groups
The following example gets all path groups with the string "Clk" somewhere in the name:
get_path_groups *Clk*
Note: If no path groups match the pattern you will get a warning.

See Also