Virtuosity: Opening Old ADE States and Views with ADE Explorer and ADE Assembler

3 Sep 2018 • 2 minute read

Have you found it a pain that when opening a Virtuoso ® ADE L state or a Virtuoso ® ADE XL view that the default application is still the old ADE L or XL? If you've moved on to Virtuoso ® ADE Assembler or Virtuoso ® ADE Explorer then you need to change the application in the Open File dialog to ADE Explorer or ADE Assembler.

To help you set the application by default, we have added a couple of environment variables that you can set in your .cdsinit or .cdsenv files.

To set the ADE L states to open using ADE Explorer by default, simply set this cdsenv:

envSetVal("adexl.gui" "adestateDefaultApp" 'cyclic "ADE Explorer")

and to set the ADE XL views to open using ADE Assembler by default, set this:

envSetVal("adexl.gui" "adexlDefaultApp" 'cyclic "ADE Assembler")

Of course 'Open with' is not the only way to migrate your old ADE L states or ADE XL views to ADE Explorer or ADE Assembler. You can:

Create a new blank maestro view in ADE Assembler and choose File->Import and select one or more ADE XL or ADE Assembler cell views to import.
Create a placeholder test in the Data View pane of ADE Assembler, and right-click and choose Load ADE L State.
Choose Session-> Load State in ADE Explorer and select the ADE L state to convert it to a maestro view.
Use the maeMigrateADEXLToMaestro and maeMigrateADELStateToMaestro SKILL functions.

To migrate an ADE XL view to maestro you can use the maeMigrateADEXLToMaestro SKILL function to create a maestro view from the ADE XL view, and this can be opened in ADE Assembler.

maeMigrateADEXLToMaestro("<adexl-view-name>" "<adexl-cell-name>" "<adexl-view-name>" ?maestroLib "<lib-name>" ?maestroCell "<cell-name>" ?maestroView "<maestro-view-name>")

The following example code migrates an ADE L state from a state file, AC_state1, saved in the ./libs/Two_Stage_Opamp/OpAmp/adexl/test_states/ directory using the maeMigrateADELStateToMaestro SKILL function:

maeMigrateADELStateToMaestro("Two_Stage_Opamp" "OpAmp_AC_top" "AC_state1" ?maestroView "maestro1" ?migrateFrom 'directory ?statePath ./libs/Two_Stage_Opamp/OpAmp/adexl/test_states/")

This creates a new maestro view called maestro1 under the library/cell Two_Stage_Opamp/OpAmp_AC_top.

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