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RE: Differential Pair Routing
What is diiferential pair check in DRC what does it checks??
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RE: Differential Pair Routing
All the differential pair constraints line min line spacing, static phase etc...
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RE: How to find Cadence install location in 17.2?
If you really need the installation location, it's in the registry. For All Users installation this is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cadence Design Systems\SPB 17.2\Targetdir but it will likely be in...
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RE: Change color/width of selected net via SKILL code
Lawrence's suggestion does reset the color and line style overrides on the wire (i.e. it removes the info in the database with the override) provided that the color and line style match the info for...
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RE: Orcad Capture - Slow Graphics response on windows 10
Microsoft have issued an update via Windows Update, KB4058258, that seems to address this issue.
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RE: Differential Pair Routing
Not as such but you can use Max uncoupled length. There's an app note that goes through all the diff pair settings:- http://orcad.co.uk/images/PDF/diffpairs_definition.pdf and...
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RE: Orcad Capture - Slow Graphics response on windows 10
I just test KB4058258 and it has improved the startup of Capture. but it is still a little slow to start up
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RE: Orcad Capture - Slow Graphics response on windows 10
The update makes some improvement - the toolbar buttons are refreshed faster however it is still visible (and annoying). Cadence should do something with it (the PCB editor doesn't have such problem).
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RE: how to get the name of a dockable window in a Layout window
I'd not checked that, sorry. Looking through the code, there's no real public interface (or even a single SKILL private interface) to initialise the assistant (it doesn't get created until the first...
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DesignCon: PCB and Packaging Take Center Stage
You wouldn't really know it from the name, but DesignCon is all about the design and analysis of printed circuit boards and packages. It's an exaggeration to say that IC design is never mentioned, but...
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RE: How to Save Optimized Design Variables to a new Corner for Later Simulation
Hi Justin, I get it. Unfortunately there's no built-in way of doing this - seems a reasonable enhancement request (please contact customer support for that). As a workaround, you could use this SKILL...
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RE: Switch View List in Virtuoso CDL Out ignored?
Hi Dan, I just looked into this. The behaviour is clearly wrong, but despite some earlier CCRs, this hasn't been fixed. I have no idea why somebody couldn't actually fix it properly - no point putting...
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A file needs to know it's place in the world
I have a file that contains skill code that can modify it's behavior based in where it exists within the file system. Is there a way for the file to determine the name of its unix parent folder?
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RE: A file needs to know it's place in the world
Yes. See this forum thread - essentially using get_filename(piport) in your script. Well, that's returning the filename being read - from which you could of course determine the containing directory....
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RE: A file needs to know it's place in the world
As always - thanks for your swift and perfect response!
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RE: How to Save Optimized Design Variables to a new Corner for Later Simulation
Hi Andrew,, This works great. Thanks for the code. I would like to also grab the modelgroup associated as well. Something like below, although I'm sure the syntax is not correct. when (modelgroup...
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Virtuosity: Sharing Custom SKILL Calculator Functions
Have you ever written a fantastic piece of SKILL to carry out a calculation and wanted to tell the world about it? Or maybe you really need a Calculator function to perform certain calculations but...
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RE: Inconsistent behavior of axlDBCloak?
the problem went away by making several 'smaller' calls to axlDBCloak instead. There is some bug with this function and the number of transactions it can queue that is not documented.
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RE: Parameter passing hygiene
Hi Andrew. I spoke too soon about abIPar fixing ALL of my problems. If I set my parent parameter to a number then abIPar nicely shows the final value on the symbol instead of the string...
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