Forum Post: RE: ICS6.1.7-64b.78 gravity and cross cursor
I wasn't really aware that this is an older release. In our company, we have a CAD department that handles those updates, and they informed that ISR8 was up for test. Thanks for the info, I'll redirect...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: ICS6.1.7-64b.78 gravity and cross cursor
ISR 8 isn't released yet - so maybe they've got an early access version of ISR8 (it's currently scheduled for 9th December). Anyway, the subversion you're referring to definitely isn't ISR8 in any...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: ICS6.1.7-64b.78 gravity and cross cursor
Just got the info that they made a mistake (ISR8 is not released yet). Problem solved then :)
View ArticleForum Post: Running an external shell script from within a Verilog-a block
Hi, I use a perl script that calculates the parasitics for an inductor; you give it the topology and it spits out a pi-model to include parasitics. How can I run this script from within virtuoso and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: HOW TO ADD VIA
Hi oldmouldy, 1. I did the steps but nothing happened. The pin is not connect to any of the planes. I have 4 layer board. I want that pin only connect to one of the planes. Is there other ways to do?...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Running an external shell script from within a Verilog-a block
Hi Matt, I don't think the way to do this is through verilogA. For one, verilogA code is directly passed to simulator and nothing invokes it at 'netlisting' stage. What you might want to try is to 1....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Automatically placement of PINS on NETS
Hi Andrew, The code, as is, fails with the transformation. *Error* dbTransformPoint: Invalid point - nil Also I am interested to have the current Top Level pin name and not the pin's name below....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Automatically placement of PINS on NETS
Hi Andrew, So another approach is to propagate the PINS from lower level and give them the current level names using the following code (Instead of selecting the PINS at the current level and have them...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Automatically placement of PINS on NETS
[quote user="Danny Rittman"] *Error* dbTransformPoint: Invalid point - nil Also I am interested to have the current Top Level pin name and not the pin's name below. [/quote] I suggest you use the SKILL...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: why is the input referred noise not proportional to the...
Hi Andrew, Many thanks for your help. You have helped much more than I expected. Aye, now I suppose it's really something in my setup. Fortunately we have got some of your FAE guys who pay regular...
View ArticleForum Post: changing via using skill
Hi All, I am trying to write a simple code to change VIA in IC6.1.6. procedure(viaChange() foreach(fig geGetSelSet() when(fig~>objType=="customVia" newMaster=dbOpenCellViewByType(fig~>libName...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Path drawn in Cadence Vituoso Layout Editor seems to get...
Thank you Andrew for your great help..as always!
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to use a custom netlist procedure (and OSSHNL-116 error)
OK. I think we will include by hand what we need. Proper usage of dbCreateNet, dbCreateTerm, almSetTerminalMap and almSetTerminalList superseded avoids the need of a custom netlister. Thanks for...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: HOW TO ADD VIA
I suspect that "everything" is related to not having a Net assigned to the Shape. Which exact version of PCB Editor are you running? (check from Help>About in PCB Editor). Get the Shape on the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to delete so many component properties in OrCAD Schematic?
You can't get rid of those. Just use the Filter by option to reduce what's visible. You can create customized filters to display exactly what you want.
View ArticleForum Post: Error in starting guiMainForm.tcl
Hello all, Could you please help me solving the following error? I have installed ET_12.10 on a 64-bit CentOS 6, but when I want to rum it I face the following error: [ USER@hostname Work_directory ]$...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: changing via using skill
You can't just remaster vias like this; you have to recreate the via using dbCreateVia again - there's no API to replace the master with a different custom (or standard) via. There's a couple of...
View ArticleForum Post: How to dc sweep Vth
Hi All, I'm a graduate student and I'm new to virtuoso. I would like to simulate the variation of the threshold voltage of a transistor (I'm not interested in evaluating circuit's robustness to...
View ArticleForum Post: Symbol line disappear in schematic view
I got a special symbol and I tried to modify it. I created line as symbol shape by symbol editor. and also create Note->Text in the symbol editor. The line and text can be seen in symbol editor but...
View Article