I have a design with multiple blocks, each block comprises multiple sub blocks and so on. In every cell/block I have used the global supply vplus! (among others).
Now I have decided that I would like to dedicate one vplus power pad to each major block for debug purposes, but am having problems figuring out HOW to do this. If I just name multiple nodes vplus! LVS (Calibre) sees them either as unconnected nodes or conflicting pins depending on exactly what I try. I remember from ECAD Dracula days that one could name multiple supplies with a colon suffix, and that would make them virtually connected as far as LVS was concerned. That doesn't seem to work with global supply names - since it is "global".
Is there a clean way to do this - to have a global supply in multiple blocks, but at the pad ring level of the schematic to have a dedicated supply connected to each block?