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Help with technology SKILL functions 4 660 (2/17/2010 5:20:32 PM) comp.cad.cadence I am trying to create a custom layer for annotation on a schematic using SKILL in IC 6.1.3.500.16. Here is a sample of some of the SKILL code. Note that this works pre-IC6. cv = dbOpenCellViewByType("myl... Joel

Detect and close blocking dialogs 7 49 (2/13/2008 2:43:48 PM) comp.cad.cadence I am trying to automate some actions using SKILL code. However, certain actions can cause modal dialog that block the execution of a function until someone manually closes it (or if I use -nograph I have I set... Joel

loadContext seg faults 2 71 (9/13/2006 9:49:57 PM) comp.cad.cadence I have been trying to convert some skill code into a context. Whenever I load the context I run into problems working within Cadence. If I load the context at startup, icfb seg faults when I try to open a sch... Joel

Spectre alter statement very slow 2 66 (5/5/2006 5:50:35 PM) comp.cad.cadence I am trying to simulate process variation with spectre using the alter statement. I use ocean to load the design, add a model file that contains a set of alter statements and then run the simulation. This has... Joel

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I need to add a pause to my Skill script 3 69 (1/28/2008 7:41:04 PM) comp.cad.cadence I need a way to add some sort of pause or delay to a script that I'm writing. I've tried the sleep() function, but this freezes Cadence while it is executing, I need some way to run it in the background (unknow... Roland.Fontaine (58)

Detect and close blocking dialogs 7 49 (2/13/2008 2:43:48 PM) comp.cad.cadence I am trying to automate some actions using SKILL code. However, certain actions can cause modal dialog that block the execution of a function until someone manually closes it (or if I use -nograph I have I set... joel_cooper (18)

closing a dialog box by skill 4 54 (3/3/2008 2:35:51 AM) comp.cad.cadence hi, In my skill, i need to refresh my library. so i use the function "ddsHiRefresh()". but this function generates a popup window that i can not kill with hiDBoxOK(). Actually, i'm not sure to get the correc... bedoune (95)

Problem in running shell command in Cadence?? 4 82 (7/1/2008 3:40:00 PM) comp.cad.cadence Hi, I need to call some commands from shell (using bash), i tried using system("command"), sh("command"). The first should print the shell output (e.g. system("date") should print the day date, and return 0), ... ahmad.abdulghany (169)

print values of a struct without knowing the slot names 2 42 (8/12/2008 10:00:35 AM) comp.cad.cadence Dear ALL, I need to understand how I can print out a struct. Assume ebb1 is an existing struct with values from which I do not know its slot names. Here is my (not working ) attempt. Any idea how to make it ... Rolf.Kemper (44)

Getting all the design variables in SKILL 1 59 (10/16/2008 12:52:58 PM) comp.cad.cadence Hi all! Is there a way to get all the design variables in a schematic with SKILL? My purpose is to set all of them to zero. This because I have a testbench, with many design variables which controls some volta... marcoballins (29)

Question on highlighting nets 1 63 (11/15/2008 5:11:37 PM) comp.cad.cadence I have a procedure to highlight a particular net each time I call it. Everytime I call the procedure I just want all the shapes in that particular net to be highlighted. All other previously highlighted nets s... ssriramiyer (96)

How to use skill command to close a schematic window? 3 81 (12/18/2008 6:14:38 AM) comp.cad.cadence Hi I want to ask a simple question: How to use skill command to close a schematic window? I did some search but can not find a proper command. Can anyone help? thank you. --la ... lee.amanda01 (1)

loading ADE state from skill 2 67 (12/19/2008 5:27:05 PM) comp.cad.cadence I am writing a cadence addon tool (for internal use) that runs corner simulations in ADE and plots to an excel format -> I intend this tool to be much like Parametric Analysis... tool with the addition of being... jonathantompson (2)

Set model params Automatically 3 63 (4/25/2010 2:19:03 PM) comp.cad.cadence There is width (w) param in my PMOS schematic. How can I automatically set some params in PMOS in schematic using equation like this: Source diffusion area = w*x Source diffusiion periphery = (w+x)*2 ... streamwarp (11)