Placing an instance with scaling.

Yes that would be correct.  My company has a new logo for placement on chip.  I streame dthe gds file in but it is way to large for wher I would like to place it.  I have never converted anything to a pcell.  Where is this performed from the menu?  or do you execute from icfb?

You can use dbCreateXformPCell() to create yourself a pcell which gives you a parameter to set the magnitude (and angle) of the shapes within the pcell. This is described in http://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/48/p/21611/1308026#1308026

Essentially what you'd do is open the cellView you want to create a scaling pcell for in the layout editor, and then in the CIW type:

dbCreateXformPCell(geGetEditCellView() "libNameYouWantThePCellIn")

and it will create a cellView in that library with the same cellName as the original, but with a view "layout_xform".

Note that you shouldn't use this with anything with a huge amount of contents, as it has to flatten the information within the cellView in order to do the scaling.

Note that another alternative is to scale the layout - you can do that using the "XScale" UNIX command. Type it with no arguments and you'll get the help - so if you have the original layout and are OK to change it, then you can use XScale to do this.

Neither of these are on menus.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

I am looking for the XScale command but whenever I type it in the CI box, all I get is 

*Error* toplevel: undefined variable - XScale
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I see that the tool is included in the documentation but we can't access it.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Miguel

Miguel,

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, this is a UNIX command, not a SKILL function to be executed in the CIW. You have to invoke it from a UNIX terminal.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Yes I saw that after the fact and managed to find it with the other cadence tools.  I got it to work now.

Miguel