Forum Post: RE: PSS shooting vs. transient with nport (S-aparm) loading
Hi Masoud, Please see article (AppNote) 20416445 S-Parameter Modeling with Broadband SPICE Technology If this doesn't answer your questions, then file a Case on http://support.cadence.com and put me in...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Modulo operation in a decimal-to-binary converter
Percent (%) is not a valid AEL (Analog Expression Language) nor spectre operator (see the AEL documentation and "spectre -h expressions"). Instead, I'd suggest you use pPar("_N")&1 or if you want...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Dimming on layout window any given area?
Thanks Andrew.. We wanted to display some text related to layout at some random location of the layout window during layout review. Since the layout layers confuses the highlight text, we wanted to...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Modulo operation in a decimal-to-binary converter
Thanks Andrew. I just found fmod() would do the job for me.
View ArticleForum Post: How to use axlDBCreateGroup and axlDBAddGroupObjects
Hi, Can anyone explain how to use these function axlDBCreateGroup and axlDBAddGroupObjects with an example would be more helpful. My intention is that the circularly placed vias has to make it as one...
View ArticleForum Post: Utility to output a single symbol from a design
(Please visit the site to view this file) Hi, I recently discovered the skill command "axlWritePackageFile( car(axlSelectByName("SYMTYPE" symbol-name))->definition )" which writes a single footprint...
View ArticleForum Post: saving dra file, creating psm file
I started a new job a few months ago and I've noticed some oddities in the behavior of the symbol editor. At my previous job, when I edited a dra file and clicked on the save icon, it would save the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Dimming on layout window any given area?
Hi Venkatraman, May be you can use instance drawing layer for writing some text within a cell which will not be visible outside the it's hierarchy level. -Ramakrishnan
View ArticleForum Post: RE: saving dra file, creating psm file
FYI - I am using 16.6 at my new job and at my previous job. Only difference is we have the high speed option at my new job.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: saving dra file, creating psm file
Check in your user preferences that the Drawing > no_symbol_onsave is unchecked.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: saving dra file, creating psm file
Well, I guess I looked right over that setting. Thanks
View ArticleForum Post: Passing user defined properties from OrCAD Capture to OrCAD PCB...
I want to pass a property I created in Capture to PCB Designer then output that property to a report. For example if I put the cost or my name as the symbol creator. I want this to show up in a report...
View ArticleForum Post: Transient Simulation of AMS gives convergence error
Hi, I need to run a AMS simulation for a testbench that contains VerilogA block, functional block (Verilog) and Transistor level schematics. From the Figure below you can have a look: Here, The Input...
View ArticleForum Post: what is the use of data.dm and constraint in each design directory?
Hi all, Normally when I try to "ls" a design directory I can always see these two files, both of which cannot be opened in a Virtuoso window (or even invisible for data.dm in the library manager). What...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: IC61x waveform viewer commands not as versatile as in IC15
awvResizeWindow() is listed as deprecated. What I found is that the window you get with awvGetCurrentWindow() is the id of the window contained in a tab of your main VIVA-XL window but the one you need...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: IC61x waveform viewer commands not as versatile as in IC15
Hi Dan, thanks for the suggestions. Yes, the command hiResizeWindow(hiGetCurrentWindow() list(a:b c:d)) does in fact resize the window. I've played around with a VIVA-XL from ICFB without my script,...
View ArticleForum Post: Modify the resistivity of M1
I want to modify the resistance of the M1. Any idea how I can do that? Thanks Sherif
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Modify the resistivity of M1
The first step would be to provide some context to your question. You could be asking about changing the resistivity in the process itself, or for a particular tool. Either way, some details are pretty...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to use axlDBCreateGroup and axlDBAddGroupObjects
Example (for what it's worth): myGroupDBID = axlDBCreateGroup("MYVIAS", "generic", nil) axlDBAddGroupObjects(myGroupDBID, viaList) In your use model it is unnecessary to use a group. You can use...
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