diff --git a/doc/StaApi.txt b/doc/StaApi.txt index 83267471..6e161f27 100644 --- a/doc/StaApi.txt +++ b/doc/StaApi.txt @@ -209,8 +209,11 @@ children of the top level instance. An adapter to a network database is built by defining a class derived from the base class Network, or NetworkEdit if it supports incremental -editing operations. network/ConcreteNetwork.cc and oa/OaNetwork.cc -are sample network adapters. +editing operations. network/ConcreteNetwork.cc is a example of +a network adapter the supports hierarchy. An example of a network adapter +for a flat DEF based netlist, see +https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/blob/master/src/dbSta/include/db_sta/dbNetwork.hh, +https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/blob/master/src/dbSta/src/dbNetwork.cc. A network adaptor to interface to an external network database must define the virtual functions of the Network class (about 45