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    SKILL - Cadence Extension Language

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    SKILL is a powerful extension language that can be used to add new capabilities to Cadence tools. SKILL is based on LISP and has a large set of library functions that allow manipulating data structures in Cadence. This document provides examples of SKILL functions, including one that creates a pad frame with a specified number of pads on each side, and another that places an array of instances in rows and columns. Help on SKILL is available through the Cadence layout editor.

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    SKILL is a powerful extension language that can be used to add new capabilities to Cadence tools. SKILL is based on LISP and has a large set of library functions that allow manipulating data structures in Cadence. This document provides examples of SKILL functions, including one that creates a pad frame with a specified number of pads on each side, and another that places an array of instances in rows and columns. Help on SKILL is available through the Cadence layout editor.

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    SKILL is a powerful extension language that can be used to add new capabilities to Cadence tools. SKILL is based on LISP and has a large set of library functions that allow manipulating data structures in Cadence. This document provides examples of SKILL functions, including one that creates a pad frame with a specified number of pads on each side, and another that places an array of instances in rows and columns. Help on SKILL is available through the Cadence layout editor.

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    SKILL - Cadence Extension Language

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    SKILL is a powerful extension language that can be used to add new capabilities to Cadence tools. SKILL is based on LISP and has a large set of library functions that allow manipulating data structures in Cadence. This document provides examples of SKILL functions, including one that creates a pad frame with a specified number of pads on each side, and another that places an array of instances in rows and columns. Help on SKILL is available through the Cadence layout editor.

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    SKILL Cadence Extension Language

    SKILL is powerful extension language that can be used to add new capabilities to Cadence tools SKILL is based upon LISP, will look very strange if you are not already familiar with LISP
    LISP is a interpreted language that is popular among the AI community LISP has a built-in eval function that can be used to execute LISP code that is dynamically generated The basic data structure in LISP is the list, with many built-in functions for manipulaing list data structures SKILL also supports a syntax form that is more Pascal-like

    The key to SKILLs power is a large set of library functions that allow you to manipulate data structures such as cells, nets, mask information, etc.
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    To Get Help On Skill


    To get help on SKILL, click on the Help menu from within the Cadence layout editor, then on Openbook Main Menu. Choose the SKILL and SKILL PI to open the Skill documentation.

    Here first, Then here

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    A Sample SKILL Function


    This SKILL function will create a padframe with X number of pads per side:
    procedure( placePadFrame( @optional no_pads ) (if (null no_pads) then (setq no_pads (enterNumber ?prompts '("Please enter the number of pads on a side")))) (setq xpointh 291) (setq ypointh 201) (setq xpointv 201) (setq ypointv 291) (for i 1 no_pads (dbCreateInst (getEditRep) (dbOpenCellViewByType "tutorial" "PADNC" "layout") nil (list xpointh ypointh) "R180") (dbCreateInst (getEditRep) (dbOpenCellViewByType "tutorial" "PADNC" "layout") nil (list xpointh-90 ypointh+no_pads*90) "R0") (setq xpointh xpointh+90) )

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    SKILL function (cont)


    (for i 1 no_pads (dbCreateInst (getEditRep) (dbOpenCellViewByType "tutorial" "PADNC" "layout") nil (list xpointv ypointv-90) "R90") (dbCreateInst (getEditRep) (dbOpenCellViewByType "tutorial" "PADNC" "layout") nil (list xpointv+no_pads*90 ypointv) "R270") (setq ypointv ypointv+90) ) (dbCreateInst (getEditRep) (dbOpenCellViewByType "tutorial" "PADFC" "layout") nil (list xpointv-300 ypointv-90) "R0") (dbCreateInst (getEditRep) (dbOpenCellViewByType "tutorial" "PADFC" "layout") nil (list xpointh-90 ypointv+210) "R270") (dbCreateInst (getEditRep) (dbOpenCellViewByType "tutorial" "PADFC" "layout") nil (list xpointh+210 201) "R180") (dbCreateInst (getEditRep) (dbOpenCellViewByType "tutorial" "PADFC" "layout") nil (list 201 -99) "R90") )

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    Comments on SKILL function


    Contained in file called pads.il
    To load function, in icfb command line type load pads.il To execute function, have a layout view open and type placePadFrame 10 if you want 10 pads per side

    Uses the dbCreateInst function for instance creation


    Documented in DFII SKILL Functions Reference

    Function parameters are:


    d_cellview - cellview where instance is placed d_master master cell view of the instance to be created t_name instance name. If nil is used, then generate an instance name l_point origin of new instance as 2-element list orientation of new instance as a string, some possible strings are R0, R90, R180, R270
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    dbCreateInst
    The function getEditRep was used to return the currently open cell view The function dbOpenCellViewByType was used to specify the master view of the instance to be placed.
    The minimum set of parameters to dbOpenCellViewByType are library_name, cell_name, view_name See docs for other optional parameters

    The list function used to create a list required to pass instance origin
    (list first_elem second_elem .. N_elem) returns a N-element list

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    Creating an Rows x Cols Array of Instances


    procedure( placeArray( @optional cols rows cellname x_width y_height) (setq ypnt 0) (for i 1 rows (setq xpnt 0) (for j 1 cols (dbCreateInst (getEditRep) (dbOpenCellViewByType "tutorial" cellname "layout") nil (list xpnt ypnt) "R0") (setq xpnt xpnt+x_width) ) (setq ypnt ypnt+y_height) ) )

    Tested with standard cell instance via: placeArray 20 4 INVX1 4.8 21.6

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    placeArray 20 4 INVX1 4.8 21.6

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