Forum Post: RE: ERROR (ADE-3023)
Irene, The only way I can get this kind of error is if I have DOS (or Windows) type line extensions. What do you get if you run "file .profile"? If it says something like this: .profile: ASCII English...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Ambiguity Threshold in PVS-LVS
Adrian, The help tells you that this GUI setting is equivalent to lvs_break_ambig_max which is covered in the PVS Developer's Guide. I suggest you search in cdnshelp for lvs_break_ambig_max as this...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: verilog-A file simulation value update to the design variable...
Your question isn't that clear. Are you saying that you want your Verilog-A to calculate a value and then use that as a design variable in a subsequent simulation? If so, this can be done using ADE XL...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: when are DRD markers refreshed?
The Batch Checker requires XL - if I run the SKILL function for the batch checker it says: *WARNING* The Batch Checker is available only in VLS XL or above license environment. So your choices are to...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: how to determine fet pcell actual drawn width per finger?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'the command to "increase(or decrease) finger count by one". Is this some custom utility or is it just manually changing the finger count on the edit properties form? If...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Integration with matlab
This can be done with the spectre-simulink co-simulation capability (or ams-simulink co-simulation capability). Contact Cadence Customer Support for more details. If you really want to do this with...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Verilog-A: Lookup tables for AC analysis
Julian, Thanks - both R&D and I had come to the same conclusion too. I have suggested that we document this behaviour to make it clearer what happens when you use ddt() on an expression including...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Re-evaluate results with ADEXL
Cedric, There's a drop-down menu next to the Evaluate icon which allows you to pick "incremental" (the default) or "full" evaluation. I think you'd need to ask it to do full evaluation here so that it...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Compliance current setting in a voltage source.
The built-in voltage source doesn't have a compliance current (it would effectively need a non-zero output impedance to do this). That would require an enhancement request. You might be able to build a...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: accessing leWeChooseLayerForm
Ramakrishnan, Yes. Use preXY(thePoint) before calling leHiLayerTap(). For example: point=enterPoint() preXY(point) leHiLayerTap() Andrew.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: API for adding Calculator Function Categories
No - you can specify the category for template functions (via the fx button), but not with the old calCreateSpecialFunction mechanism - that only adds to the fixed "User Defined SKILL Functions"...
View ArticleForum Post: Pcell
Hi, I want to create a function to find all pcells of a certain type in the layout hierarchy and flatten them. I really appreciate your help. Thanks. Reza.
View ArticleForum Post: Draw random numbers from a normal distribution in an Ocean script
Hello, I want to study the effect of the parameter variabilty of a verilogA component. I would like to draw random numbers from a normal distribution when using desVar in my Ocean script. How could I...
View ArticleForum Post: error in AMS simulation
Hello, I'm stuck with an error in my simulation that prevents me to see any results. I have a system with one digital block (Verilog) and several analog blocks. I'm using the extracted views (with...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: E-learning course for Floor Planning
You can set the old menu so Display - Use Legacy menu then restart the tools and they will revert. If you want to change this back go to Setup - User Preferences - ui - general and uncheck...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Marking nets in cadence showing shorts
HI, Mark net issue in layout can be solved by adding the line envSetVal ("layout" "useMarkNetWithNewChaser" 'boolean nil) invoke this command in the CIW window. (posting this solution so that someone...
View ArticleForum Post: LEF generation from abstract is missing class,symmetry, origin...
HI , I am trying to generate LEF file of an abstract (top level cell: TOP_CELL). Eventhough LEF is getting generated it is missing the following information....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Running skill code using perl script
HI Andrew, Sorry for delay in replying to this post. (Was busy with tapeout work). Can you please tell me what modification I have to make in wrapper script so that command line arguments will get...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Running skill code using perl script
Anand, Probably change the virtuoso line to: virtuoso -64 "$@" & Regards, Andrew.
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