Virtuoso - Any command to measure area of polygon or path ?

[chickenvlsi]

virtuoso layout measure area

Hi all,
In Cadence Virtuoso layout editor, is there any command to measure area of a polygon or path ?
What I currently do to measure the area of a shape is that I measure length and width using ruler, then calculate its area ( Which is widthxlength for a rectangular shape) and it is really time-consuming.
Thanks very much

 

[anandiiyer]

how do i find path length in virtuoso

I don't think you have such a direct command in cadence...

but writing a skill code for the same involves just few steps

 

[ksj116]

to measure an area

as the above said, i think this can do but caculating the area of a polygon need to be which ieda for the skill programming.

 

[chickenvlsi]

vituoso skill commands

Thank you very much for your replies
I really appreciate those!

 

[kumar_eee]

area in polygon

you can use the skill to get the coordinates of the shape & based on that you can calculate the area.

Find a sample code below to calculate the prBounday area.

cv=dbOpenCellViewByType(lib_name cell_name "layout" nil "r")
xcoord=xCoord(cadar(setof(x cv~>shapes x~>lpp == list("prBoundary" "drawing"))~>bBox))
ycoord=yCoord(cadar(setof(x cv~>shapes x~>lpp == list("prBoundary" "drawing"))~>bBox))
area=xcoord*ycoord

Hope this helps..

 

[cop02ia]

virtuoso skill commands

Hi,
There are answers in Sourcelink.
Just search for product solution 11248454 for the polygons.
To get area of a path, try product solution 11422112 to get the path length & multiply by the width of your path.