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ADEL check model files and paths

acook

Hello,

I would like to create a trigger that checks my model libraries and paths when I run a simulation. It would check the model paths as well as the model files. If they are not set to the EDA defaults, I would like a dialog box to come up warning me that I am simulating with a non-standard set of models.

The trigger would occur when I hit the run button in ADE. If that is not possible, it would run when I load an ADE state.

I've had time where I used my own models for weeks unknowningly because I had needed to make a change to the models at one point for one reason or another.

I am running CDS6

 Thank you,

Aaron

  • Let me rephrase into smaller peices:

    1. How do I create a trigger that will execture immediatly after I hit "run" in ADE?
    2. How do I get the information of which model files I have loaded from ADE into SKILL?

  • You'd need to insert a preFunc or postFunc to an existing "flowchart" step (or you could add another flowchart step, but probably easiest to do it something like the below). And use (say) asiGetModelLibSelectionList(session) (where session is what is passed into the trigger) to get the model files.

     

    /* abPostNetlistTrigger.il

Author     A.D.Beckett
Group      Custom IC (UK), Cadence Design Systems Ltd.
Language   SKILL
Date       Sep 09, 2009 
Modified   
By         

Example of defining a trigger to be invoked after netlisting.
Works by adding a postFunc to the asiComposeSimInput flowchart step.

for example:

abDefinePostNetlistTrigger('spectre)
abDefinePostNetlistTrigger('hspiceD)

Could use similar code to define a preFunc trigger for the asiNetlist
step - this would allow you to trigger before the netlisting.

***************************************************

SCCS Info: @(#) abPostNetlistTrigger.il 09/09/09.14:38:50 1.2

*/

procedure(abPostNetlistTrigger(session)
  let((simulator existingPostFunc)
    simulator=asiGetSimName(session)
    printf("TRIGGER: netlist Directory is %L\n" asiGetNetlistDir(session))
    printf("TRIGGER: psf Directory is %L\n" asiGetPsfDir(session))
    existingPostFunc=concat('abPostNetlistTrigger_ simulator)
    if(getd(existingPostFunc) then
      funcall(existingPostFunc session)
    else
      t
    ) ; if
  ) ; let
) ; procedure abPostNetlistTrigger

procedure(abDefinePostNetlistTrigger(simulator)
  let((flow postFunc step)
    flow=asiGetFlowchart(asiGetTool(simulator))
    step=asiGetFlowchartStep(flow 'asiComposeSimInput)
    postFunc=step->postFunc
    ;--------------------------------------------------------------------
    ; Doesn't seem to be a postFunc for this step, but just in case,
    ; future proof it...
    ;--------------------------------------------------------------------
    when(postFunc && neq(postFunc 'abPostNetlistTrigger)
      putd(concat('abPostNetlistTrigger_ simulator) getd(postFunc))
    ) ; when
    asiChangeFlowchartStep(flow ?name 
      'asiComposeSimInput ?postFunc 'abPostNetlistTrigger
    )
  ) ; let
) ; procedure abDefinePostNetlistTrigger 

     

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