What’s Hot in Verification at this Year’s CDNLive? It’s Portable Stimulus Again!
CDNLive is a user conference, and verification is one of the largest categories of content with multiple tracks covering multiple days. Portable stimulus is one of the hottest new areas in...
View ArticleRE: Save and Recreate TrackPattern
Hi Andrew, thanks for your answer. I already thought that WSPs might be the preferred approach now - unfortunately use of WSPs is not possible without additional licenses... Best regards, Markus
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Doing More With Less—Software GPS and Tensilica...
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Tom Hackett describes a theoretical IoT device for monitoring shipping containers and the ways that the system cost could be reduced by implementing functions...
View ArticleRE: Deleting text label from selected object
I am away from my computer, but try the line below, I deleted the "car(". txtLp = setof(lp geGetSelSet()~>lpps lp~>layerName=="text" && lp~>purpose=="drawing")
View ArticleRE: using auto-vias through SKILL
I am using Ver. 12.3 ISR14. Cant find local cadence support. :/
View ArticleRE: attach label to a pin as a 'children'
If you want to create a label, use dbCreateLabel. dbCreateTextDisplay is to display the value of a database attribute or property on an associated object - it's not to display arbitrary text (the...
View ArticleRE: using auto-vias through SKILL
You could always try support.cadence.com or the "Support" link at the top of this page: BTW, I did some searching around the time Quek responded and only found one report of an issue with slowness with...
View ArticleRE: Deleting text label from selected object
This approach is rather strange. What it's doing is finding the layer purpose pairs for all the selected objects, and then deleting all shapes (labels, textDisplays or anything) on those layer-purposes...
View ArticleRE: Working with schematics on a white background
A good place to look is in Chapter 3, Technology File Layer Definitions of the Virtuoso Technology Data ASCII Files Reference. If you search in this chapter for the "Layout Objects" section, it has a...
View ArticleHow Can I Get the Max. Length of all wires on a design ?
How Can I Get the Max. Length of all wires on a design ? the (max) function only judges two numbers, but I have to get the max. value of a relation. (transform (w) wire (w (length w)))
View ArticleRE: How Can I Get the Max. Length of all wires on a design ?
Hi Kenjung, If you have access to Ravel Standard Library, please use the following code: (include "standard/basic") (define longest_wire (transform (w) (CHOOSE_MAX wire length) (w (length w)))) if you...
View ArticleRE: How Can I Get the Max. Length of all wires on a design ?
Hi, Bindu : Thanks for your reply, but I can't find any standard library path including "standard/basic" . Can you tell me the absolute path (in APD 16.6) of the standard library path ? And, is there...
View ArticleRE: Convert schematic to Verilog file
Is it possible to split instance names? for example, there is instace in the verilog that we get by NC Verilog netlist generation from a schematic BFHVTX12 buffer[1:0] ( .Z(cml_sc[1:0]),...
View ArticleClayton Christensen and the Innovator's Dilemma
One of the most readable and influential business books of the last 20 years was Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma , which was originally published in 1997. I know that "readable" is not an...
View ArticleTreeTable writable fields.
Hello fellow Custom IC SKILLers, I have yet another question. I saw in ADE L that in the "Model Library Setup" AppForm you are able to write in the fields. And even I think the fields could be other...
View ArticleRE: TreeTable writable fields.
Hi Stoyan, If you want to change the entries in the Model Library Setup perhaps a better way to do this is through something like the following: asiSetEnvOptionVal(asiGetTool('hspiceD) "modelFiles"...
View ArticleRE: TreeTable writable fields.
Hi Lawrence, That's actually not my question. I am building an AppForm with treeTable with several levels of hierarchy and I want on the last(lowest) level to be able to write in a cell of the...
View ArticleRE: TreeTable writable fields.
Hi Stoyan, There are a few forms in Virtuoso that use native Qt widgets with an "hi" container around them. This is done if features that the Human Interface functions don't offer are needed - and the...
View ArticleRE: Convert schematic to Verilog file
Please read the forum guidelines - posting a very specific question in a 5 year old general thread is definitely against the guidelines. Assuming you're talking about the Verilog netlister in Virtuoso,...
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