Cadence virtuoso scripting language

[MahmoudHassan]

Hello
For cadence virtuoso i want to know which scripting language is better to be used I know that there are scripting languages like Perl , TCL , TK but in Cadence virtuoso user guide they introduced another one "Skill" and it uses Ocean platform (or something like that )
so which scripting language that used with Cadence and which one is the most popular ?

Thanks in advance

 

[erikl]

For Cādence software the generic language is SKILL.

 

[MahmoudHassan]

Thanks erikl
do you know how to learn it ? and what is "Ocean platform" that is used fro SKILL???

 

[erikl]

... how to learn it ? and what is "Ocean platform" that is used fro SKILL???

In the Cādence Virtuoso documentation you can find descriptions: sklangref.pdf , sklayoutref.pdf , skill_development_functions.pdf & skill_development_help.pdf . In the net you can find e.g. "Cadence® SKILL Language Programming Lecture Manual" & "Cadence® SKILL Language Programming Lab Manual".

OCEAN (Open Command Environment for ANalysis) is an analysis dedicated extension of SKILL (i.e. for simulation). Here you can get the OCEAN reference manual.

 

[dick_freebird]

If you're asking which language SKILL might resemble, that
would be LISP, a semi-ancient LISt Processing language
(because CAD databases are indeed just "lists" of "stuff" -
objects, connections, attributes, hierarchies, etc.).

Ocean is sort of a patch / bridge between the SKILL
language that underpins all Cadence functionality, and
the Spectre simulator. Necessary because the Spectre
command language is as lame as a one legged jellyfish
on tarmac.