can SKILL be used in this aspect

[whitchurch85]

Hi,

I recently started work on SKILL in cadence. It seems interesting, from what i learnt in the Manual for SKILL everything done on cadence passes via a SKILL Interpreter.

I am wondering is it possible to write (SKILL scripts) - (hope the term script is appropriate) to automate a layout.

Atleast that is what motivated me to learn SKILL.

What are the other cool things one can do with SKILL. Thanks for your time.

 

[itsmeteja]

looks interesting..Do you mean that all the cadence tools work on this skill interpreter not on tcl interpreter?

 

[whitchurch85]

Well it seems that way.
I found this script in a tutorial to generate a rectangle Active, using Skilll in virtuosos.

I am getting a syntax error though. it did give me the pointer Id for the layout.

I am not a computer science guy. but from what i understood it retrieves pointed id for the current layout session. uses a function called dbCreateRect to draw a rectangle.

Here is the snippet please see if you can debug it.

cvID = geGetWindowCellView()
dbCreateRect(cvID list( "Active" "drawing" ) list( 10:0 20:10 ) )