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What is the syntax for creating pins withing SKILL

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 I tried accessing the documentation, but it seems to be unavailable at my university this year.  I was just wondering what the syntax for creating a pin is.  I think it is dbCreatePin( ) but i don't know the parameters.  

 Also is there a way to specify what material/metal the pin is created on?

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  • Andrew Beckett
    You should also try to resolve the documentation issue. Writing SKILL code without docs is going to be rather hard. I consider the tools crippled if the documentation has been deleted.

    You should be able to run the cdsFinder command from the UNIX prompt, or startFinder() in the CIW. This will bring up the "quick reference" - not the documentation, but a short description of the function and the template for the function.

    If cdsdoc (cdnshelp in the latest releases) does not work, you should raise that with whoever is responsible for your installation. You may however be able to just look in <ICinstDir>/doc and this contains directories for each manual, containing HTML and PDF formats. The one you want is in "skdfref" (I think; I'm offline so I can't check).

    To further what Lawrence says, you'll need to use dbMakeNet to create the net first, and dbCreateRect (or whatever) to create the pin figure. Then pass the results of these two to dbCreatePin.

    Regards,

    Andrew
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  • Andrew Beckett
    You should also try to resolve the documentation issue. Writing SKILL code without docs is going to be rather hard. I consider the tools crippled if the documentation has been deleted.

    You should be able to run the cdsFinder command from the UNIX prompt, or startFinder() in the CIW. This will bring up the "quick reference" - not the documentation, but a short description of the function and the template for the function.

    If cdsdoc (cdnshelp in the latest releases) does not work, you should raise that with whoever is responsible for your installation. You may however be able to just look in <ICinstDir>/doc and this contains directories for each manual, containing HTML and PDF formats. The one you want is in "skdfref" (I think; I'm offline so I can't check).

    To further what Lawrence says, you'll need to use dbMakeNet to create the net first, and dbCreateRect (or whatever) to create the pin figure. Then pass the results of these two to dbCreatePin.

    Regards,

    Andrew
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