Forum Post: RE: panelization in PCB
Yes you can use the Allegro Productivity toolbox with an OrCAD Professional based license (well it works for me).
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Artwork Form Control Dialog Error
See if you can get access to a hotfix for 16.2.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: pnoise spurs at multiples of clock frequency.
Hi and thanks by the answer, now it is clear. Only one more question. Is the value Jc the total jitter or i have to take into account a factor 2? I mean, the tool takes into account the contribution of...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: pnoise spurs at multiples of clock frequency.
Jc(k) is the k-cycle jitter, that is the standard deviation of the duration of k cycles of the signal.
View ArticleForum Post: Maximum value of measurements set on Calculator
Hi all. I'm interesting on know how to measure the maximum value of a measurement sets, for example I want to measure the maximum propagation delay time of N channel device. It would be like...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Maximum value of measurements set on Calculator
If each of these results are numerical (rather than waveforms), then it would be max(tphl0 tplh1 tplh2 ...) . ymax is to find the maximum y-value in a waveform, whereas max is a SKILL function which...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Hierarchically Layer generation
Hi Subhabrata, Are you sure that you are using the correct name for the layers? The layer names are case sensitive, e.g. is it "Metal2" instead of "metal2" ? You can verify the names in SKILL if you...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Hierarchically Layer generation
Hi Subhabrata You might want to continue the discussion in this new thread which you had created and not in this old thread. Best regards Quek
View ArticleForum Post: Purpose of rodCoord functions
Hello, What exactly is the role of the rodCoord functions? I have gone through the documentation about them, but it seems rather complicated to grasp their usage in real-life scripts, due to the fact...
View ArticleForum Post: Special open on VCC, and GND while doing connectivity check after...
Hi all, After doing sroute for pad pins only, the connectivity report gives the following violations: Net VCC, Pin VDD_PAD.VCC: unconnected terminal at (696.070000,1633.320000) (732.870000,1636.800000)...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Artwork Form Control Dialog Error
Hi Steve, I have the last ISR at 16.20.048 installed. Everything worked about 3 months ago, but had not used Allegro to create gerbers for sometime as someones else does boards for me. Consequently, do...
View ArticleForum Post: Cadence and Windows
Hello, It is a simple question but I didn't find a clear answer. Why a lot of Cadence tools are not available on Windows? It is a question of performances? Stability? Scripting possibilities? Best...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Cadence and Windows
Emmanuel, It's a mixture of history, market demand, and the fact that Windows is not really a great operating system for high performance computing. The history is that many of the tools started life...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Purpose of rodCoord functions
Hi Elena, I agree the documentation isn't great, and it doesn't really emphasise a change that we made early in IC616 which removed the need to set a global grid (the danger with a global grid is that...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Issue in script to modify a routing blockage in Cadence SKILL
Thank you Sjored. I really appreciate your help!
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Hierarchically Layer generation
Thanks, Lawrence. That worked. To utilize the same function I was even looking for the queries following the thread community.cadence.com/.../1348118 . Where I wanted to read the hierarchy first and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Issue in script to modify a routing blockage in Cadence SKILL
Thanks Lawrence. It was a bit tricky to discover this!
View ArticleForum Post: How to create a CDF parameter for your custom model parameter...
Hi, I first wanted to manually adjust the Vth0 of the nch and pch transistors from the foundry's (tsmc65nm) model file (*.scs). Therefore, I copied their model file locally and added its location to my...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Artwork Form Control Dialog Error
Latest Update: Everything works now. Had to re-install SPB 16.2. Must have been some ActiveX or other mess-up in the Registry.
View ArticleForum Post: Displaying current through a pin
I was trying to figure out how to display current flowing into a pin in Cadence. I need to calculate the total power dissipated by the circuit. I clicked on Outputs>To be saved and then clicked on...
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