2-way workflow, Pins tool <--> Altium?

[dav1]

Hi,

Curious if someone figured out how to achieve a 2-way workflow between the NXP pins-tool and Altium Designer?

i.e.
- build up config in pins tool, export to CSV report or device tree file
- script to update the netlist / pin-swap table in altium
and vice versa
- pin-swap during layout in altium
- export back to pins-tool to check if it's valid

I could see that one way to do it would be to make use of Altium's .harness files which is basically just a plain text file. Another way would be to just to straight on the pin-numbers of the imx symbol itself and swap there (at the drawback of getting a messy schematic)

Thoughts?

related:
- it would be nice if the pins-tool could export a separate list or property of what pins are actually pin-swappable!

[dav1]

my proposal of improved workflow can be used with both altium and cadence.

please help get some team member from the pins tool application to join this discussion

[Rita_Wang]

Our design use the Cadence not the Altium Designer, we have the pin tool you can refer to https://www.nxp.com/design/designs/config-tools-for-i-mx-applications-processors:CONFIG-TOOLS-IMX