Forum Post: RE: Creating a Via Matrix Using Skill
The cloak prevents the dynamic shapes to update during via placement and only updates once on the end of the function. Another thing you can do is to zoom to a point, lets say around the origin, and...
View ArticleForum Post: How to get the current expression in the ViVA calculator
I have some SKILL code that was able to get the expression from the calculator in IC5, but I can't figure out how to do it in IC6. Here is my IC5 code: procedure( mvGetCalcBuffer() prog((uniqueSymbol)...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to associate footprint and symbol
Does not help me. It does not find pads. I thought pads were integrated in psm. However, I checked and re-checked the pads path but nothing. The two typical error strings look like:...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to associate footprint and symbol
The Padstacks, and the Flash/Shape symbols they reference, will need to be in your on-disk library when placing the Connector Symbol 'SULLINS_SBH11-PBPC-D07-ST-BK' in the Allegro editor (.brd) The...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: QRC (EXT91) always fails
Hi Manuel As the previous thread has already ended in Oct 2010, it is actually not good for you to append to it. in future, please kindly always start a new thread for your issue so that we can focus...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Virtuoso XL Auto Router(routing width input ?)
Hi Franck, Thanks for your reply !!! Even I am changing the width of Metal layer in "Wire assistant",the "Auto Router" tool taking the minimum width of each metal layer. Do I need to save it after...
View ArticleForum Post: How to re-use old footprints from an Allegro design
Hi, Simple question (maybe). I have exported the library of components from an Allegro 16.2 layout into a directory. Everything looks perfect. However, and this might be my inexperience, every...
View ArticleForum Post: Access EM shapes of a Voltus-Fi simulation
Hello, Is it possible to access the colored EM shapes with skill after a voltus-fi simulation? I tried to go trough the data structure e.g. the window object but I didn't figure out the way to the...
View ArticleForum Post: Manufacturing option menu in OrCAD
How to get the panel editor, dfm checker, doc editor menus in legacy OrCAD menus? I get those in Allegro PCB Designer and new OrCAD menu structure from Manufacture menu but not in legacy OrCAD?
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Manufacturing option menu in OrCAD
In my humble, this sounds like a bug which you need to get reported to Cadence. The "Manufacturing Option" menus get loaded programmatically, not part of the regular menu structure in the menu files,...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to re-use old footprints from an Allegro design
in 17.2, the "additional" layer names are "just ignored" for any padstack layers. If you have footprint objects on specific layers you will probably need to delete those objects before being able to...
View ArticleForum Post: ahdlLib opamp model vref pin
Hi there, I try to use the opamp model from ahdlLib but there's a few point about the model I don't understand... 1. what are ibias and iin_max parameters ? 2. Is vsoft used for output clipping ?...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to get the current expression in the ViVA calculator
Sorry, I didn't see getCalcBuffer in cdsFinder when I first looked.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to get the current expression in the ViVA calculator
I assume you really mean calGetBuffer (for the benefit of anyone else who searches the forums)... Andrew.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: ahdlLib opamp model vref pin
The models are pretty old and from the early days of the SpectreHDL and then VerilogA standard. Some quick answers: ibias appears to be effectively a current drawn from the input pins to the reference...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: ahdlLib opamp model vref pin
Hi Andrew and thank you very much for your answer. I do understand what you say about "pretty old" models but this brings a question, if I may. Is there a recent version of these libs or a modern...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: ahdlLib opamp model vref pin
Hi Olivier, They're old, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there needs to be a more modern way necessarily. The models in bmslib are newer; the modelwriter models are similar in concept (although...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to re-use old footprints from an Allegro design
Using version 16.2, but I kind of thought the only sure way was to delete those now unused/unwanted layers in the footprints from the old design and save them in their basic form for usage in any new...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to re-use old footprints from an Allegro design
Before exporting the libraries open the cross section form and delete all of the layers except the outer. Then when you export the libraries you only get top, bottom and default_inner
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