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Error while generating a netlist

I have cleared DRC in schematic and while going to generate netlist, the options under pcb editor is blank and i have a error message that "Error intializing COM property pages:Invalid Pointer" after...

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RE: Running simulation on verilogAMS

I forgot to add, this is what I have in my wrapper: # IC6x support export CDS_INST_DIR=${CADENCE}/ic/06.16.120 export PATH=$CDS_INST_DIR/bin:$CDS_INST_DIR/tools/bin:$CDS_INST_DIR/tools/plot/bin:$PATH...

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RE: Running simulation on verilogAMS

Do you really have the "incisive" installation underneath the IC installation? That looks a bit strange to me. My guess is that you meant to have the last two lines as: export INCISIV_INST_DIR=...

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RE: Generating Schematic pin list

Hi Andrew, Assuming that I have a list like (“q “ “q ”), Is there any function that can rebuild it to q ?

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RE: Generating Schematic pin list

Here's a bit of code I wrote a little over 10 years ago to do this (the comment at the top which talks about the case of nets is related to the code that this was part of, so you can ignore that):...

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RE: Unable to map design without a suitable latch. [MAP-3] [synthesize]

I am a new user of this site so here i saw multiple articles and posts posted by this site,I curious more interest in some of them hope you will give more information on this topics in your next...

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quickplace by schematic page number

i want quickplace components by schematic page number at different locations , how can i implement this use skill ? could anyone help me ? i have looked throught the manual but havent find out the...

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flightlines ends xy coordinates ?

Hi All, How to find the flightline ends coordinates in the layout generated by Annotation Browser using SKILL ? Because I want to move the pins by using the flightline coordinates and SKILL. Best...

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TI Flies Pegasus in the Clouds

Kyle Peavy of Texas Instruments reported on their experience with Pegasus, Cadence's newish physical verification system, at CDNLive Silicon Valley . You won't be surprised to know that TI's chips are...

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RE: How to use uvm_agent for sequencing

muffi and tpylant thank you for your help. I had 2 errors indeed. Fixed them,

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Get Instance Terminal Coordinates in Schematic

Hello, I have added a MOSFET into a schematic and would like to locate the device terminals of the instance using SKILL code geGetSelSet()~>instTerms~>term~> (coordinates?) The only thing that...

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RE: Get Instance Terminal Coordinates in Schematic

HI Karam, geGetSelSet()~>instTerms~>term returns the terminals database objects in that instance's master cell - which is a cell view of type schematicSymbol. Other than that a terminal is a...

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RE: Get Instance Terminal Coordinates in Schematic

the below code returns the bBox coordinates you are looking for: inst=(car geGetSelSet()) (foreach mapcar term inst~>instTerms~>term (geTransformUserBBox (caar term~>pins~>figs)~>bBox...

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error of failed request

After launch icfb, I got the following error: X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist) Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) Serial number of failed request: 15...

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RE: error of failed request

It would be great to have some more information about the hardware/OS and the icfb version For a start you could try this: icfb -nosplash

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RE: error of failed request

It would be great to have some more information about the hardware/OS and the icfb version For a start you could try this: icfb -nosplash

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RE: Inherited Connections - connecting to nets

Hi Kashif, using the "!" on any net/pin makes the net global and accessible through the whole hierarchy, very convenient but also troublesome like you experienced since it will kind of hard-wire that...

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RE: error of failed request

Thank you in advance for the help. 6 years ago, that topic/problem was also asked. A certain Lawrence Davis had a solution but he is referring to another topic in the forum that is already removed from...

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RE: error of failed request

Please also provide the link to the other post you found (that Lawrence referenced the solution from) - it's quite possible that I can fix the topic it references (it's unlikely it's been removed - but...

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RE: Get Instance Terminal Coordinates in Schematic

Thanks a lot mbracht. Now I can derive the terminal coordinates with the help of your code!

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