Forum Post: Inductor in Cadence Virtuoso
Hello, I do not have an inductor in my technology and have never done before. Can someone provide me some guideline on how to create an inductor in cadence virtuoso in my technology? Schematic and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Inductor in Cadence Virtuoso
Please do not post the same question in more than one forum (the forum guidelines - the pinned post at the top of each forum) ask you not to do this. You might want to consider EMX Designer ; this is a...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Inductor in Cadence Virtuoso
I think I have some tools integrated in my environment to simulate the EMI. But I need a guideline on where to start. Should I draw only the layout firstly and how? and then simulate it with these...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Display Your Know How: Thermal Relief
Hi excellon1, we are loving this discussion. Thanks for all your inputs! You make a good point about the area of the copper. Yes the through-hole pin may not need thermal reliefs for this connection to...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Display Your Know How: Thermal Relief
Gold star answer - thank you FalcomPeter !! Agreed, changing the narrow trace on the right side pin of the surface mount component will help to balance the thermal properties of this part which will...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Libmanager callback always prints stack trace despite errset()
yeah, that did it, can you please have them fix the documentation? kinda annoying that libmanager introduces a different execution context procedure(_amCopyStdCellToRelease(caller, libName, cellName,...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Libmanager callback always prints stack trace despite errset()
That's not us that's doing that - the _stacktrace variable should not be different in each case - I can only imagine you have something in your environment which is setting _stacktrace. Note that the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Libmanager callback always prints stack trace despite errset()
That was my first thought too, that maybe SOS was mucking things up. The above behavior was verified in a base environment without any addons or PDKs Also, this is ICADV20.1-64b.500.34
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Display Your Know How: Thermal Relief
Example of thermal balancing of smd pins with no thermal reliefs (full contact with copper planes)
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Libmanager callback always prints stack trace despite errset()
I take it all back. It is us doing this. In the code which executes the callback on the Virtuoso side from the library manager, it temporarily sets _stacktrace to 10 and then restores it afterwards. I...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Variant STEP Export using Skill
Hi Juuls, can you please try the new command " 3d_export" This uses the 3DX engine using OrCAD X/Allegro X licenses. It also has more optional arguments which can be found by adding -help to the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Display pads coordinates
For the Coordinate of Pins you can use Symbol Pin Report. Tools>Reports>Symbol Pin Reports. Using datatips we can get Pin Location when you hover your mouse over the pin. For Customizing...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Detected Layer-to-Layer Polygons that overlap
You can use a script in OrCAD/Allegro Skill (SKILL) to detect overlapping polygons layer by layer. The general approach is: Iterate through all layers and extract voltage polygons. Compare each polygon...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to use cmxlExportFile()
The l_options argument documentation doesn't show anything related to output file type, so submit an enhancement request
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Thermal relief on ORCAD pcb editor
Hi AA, can you clarify if your problem is that "only" the vias get the thermal reliefs; and not the pins? Sorry but I wasn't quite sure from your description. Please note that it is possible for...
View ArticleForum Post: swapping net names
hello is there an easy way to swap the net names? i finished my design but i found out some nets needed to be swapped. for instance, my design has net_a and net_b. i change net_a to net_ax so that i...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Variant STEP Export using Skill
Hi John, thanks for you reply. Unfortunately, this also does not support exporting step files that only contains the components of each variant. The "step_out" had the option to export only the...
View ArticleForum Post: Passing Global Variable to Matlab function
I have Matlab function (find_dc) as expression in ADE assembler. I would like to pass the value of global variable (start_eval) to the function. I have tried the syntax : find_dc('txoutp',...
View ArticleForum Post: Toggle subclasses for the current active class
Hello All, For the question below, does anyone already have a working solution (SKILL/WoW)? Currently, funckey + subclass -+ (toggles the visibility, top to bottom) funckey - subclass -- (toggles the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: swapping net names
I assume you don't have a schematic you can edit. Put the board into a folder and export all libraries. File / export netlist / with properties. Edit and save this netlist. Import the edited netlist...
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