Forum Post: launching ModGen in Cadence virtuoso Layout editor
Hello, can you tell me please how to run the Modgen in Cadence Layout tool? I tried to find it from different places in my simulator but I couldn't see it. Perhaps my simulator doesn't support this...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: launching ModGen in Cadence virtuoso Layout editor
Simulator? What has a simulator got to do with this? Simulators are for simulating circuits, not for producing layout. I suggest for Modgens you look at the Rapid Adoption kit on support.cadence.com...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Exporting the waveforms from Cadence ADE to plot it in Mathlab
Assuming by "Mathlab" you really mean MATLAB from the MathWorks, then you can export waveform results from ViVA graphs (Right Mouse->Send to->Export from the graph, and pick "Matlab" as the Files...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Library manager shows layout cell is checked out BUT there...
Hi Michael, This is not locked as far as Virtuoso is concerned - which merely uses locks (these .clslck files) to prevent multiple edits to the same UNIX files if two sessions/users are working in the...
View ArticleForum Post: skill code to highlighting layout metals extended beyond via
Hi, I was wondering if there is any skill code that can highlight metals lets say Metal 5, which are extended beyond Via4 or Via6. Basically I want to chop out these extended metals, for that I want to...
View ArticleForum Post: Cadence Liberate for characterizing
Recently, I use Cadence Liberate to characterize the standard cell. Some novel error occurs, shown as the follow ERROR reminder: Did anyone meet with this type error? Hope someone can help me! Thanks a...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Tree Hierarchy of layout to table format
Hi Andrew, Thanks for the reply. I want to get hierarchy(Shift+t) or ' Hierarchy->Tree' to a table key & value format as mentioned below. In general hierarchy(Shift+t), we are getting the output...
View ArticleForum Post: Load SKILL file, call procedure and get return value (string)...
I need to call few SKILL procedure one by one. Each of the procedure is written in it's own file. So I need to load the SKILL file before calling the procedure. I also need the return value; generally...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Load SKILL file, call procedure and get return value (string)...
That script called shout.il should answer your needs : ;; copyleft ebecheto defun( shout (command @optional (rmNL nil) (verb t) ) (let (ipcId ret) ;// not to use with complex shell command , no time...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Load SKILL file, call procedure and get return value (string)...
I think you misunderstood my question. I don't want to call shell commands from SKILL function. I want to call SKILL function from shell (csh in my case). I need to load .il file, call the function and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: footprint creation in orcad pcb editor 17.2
Have a look at www.youtube.com/watch . This shows both the wizard and manual method to make a footprint. You can also try looking at www.snapEDA.com and www.ultralibrarian.com who may well have these...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: high speed license problem
It means you don't have a High Speed License. This doesn't restrict the type of designs you can do but if you have this license it just makes things easier. Look at www.parallel-systems.co.uk/.../...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Accidently deleting symbols and shapes
You can add a Locked property to the dra file which will stop any objects of the symbol being deleted, Open the filename.dra and use Edit - Properties then in the Find pane change the Find by Name...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: "DO Not Stuff" I can't print Schematic without this appearing...
Sounds like you need to use Part Manager to define the BOM variants you need then use View - Variant View mode to drive the schematic view. You can then export a PDF of that specific variant. Take a...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Cadence Liberate for characterizing
The most amazing is this error won't occur with the usage of UMC technology. This error occurs with the usage of TSMC technology models.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Cadence Liberate for characterizing
This article gives some info on how to debug this problem: Liberate prompts SYSTEM ERROR - could not execute command If that doesn't help, please contact customer support . Regards. Andrew.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Load SKILL file, call procedure and get return value (string)...
There isn't really a direct way to do this, but it's easy enough to implement with a bit of thought (it's a bit of an odd request though). You could have a generic script called generic.il :...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Load SKILL file, call procedure and get return value (string)...
Thanks Andrew. It's a bit workaround but it works.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Accidently deleting symbols and shapes
Thanks Steve. Good to know as you can select the shapes on a symbol and move or delete those items. The problem I have is accidently deleting the whole symbol ,
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Cadence Liberate for characterizing
Thanks for your suggestion ! After I debug just as the solution, there is no errror accuring in the spectre output log file but some warning. Warning from spectre during circuit read-in. WARNING...
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