How to load my configeration files from my working directory not home directory

By default the tools will look in the current directory for a .cdsinit file, but if one was found earlier in the search path, that one would have been loaded and the search stops (i.e. the first one found is loaded) - if this is the case then that file could include a statement to load a ./.cdsinit if present, something like:

when(isFile("./.cdsinit")
  printf("Loading .cdsinit from current directory %s\n" getWorkingDir())
  load("./.cdsinit")
)

For the .cdsenv file there is an environment variable that controls the loading, you would want a setting that includes the current directory:

setenv CDS_LOAD_ENV addCWD

[valid values are False, CWD, addCWD, CWDElseHome and CSF]

So your choice depends on whether you wish to find and load other .cdsenv files and in which order (e.g. "addCWD" would load the current directory .cdsenv after a ~/.cdsenv file).

The "CSF" choice is the Cadence Search Facility - look this up in the documentation, it affects the search paths and order of many setup files.

Hopefully this helps you.

Best regards,

Lawrence

 Do I write that in .cdsinit file?

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I copied: when(isFile("./.cdsinit")

  printf("Loading .cdsinit from current directory %s\n" getWorkingDir())

  load("./.cdsinit")

)

Into the .cdsinit file.

I also set the environment so that .cdsenv get loaded from my current directory. It doesn’t seem to work. I have 2 PDK’s in two different working directories with their respective configuration files (.cdsenv and .cdsinit) but for some reason when I start a new cadence session .cdsenv is loaded from the home (root) directory.

How do I fix this issue?

Thank you very much