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How to run a pvs drc in linux (with multi-gds files)

sshinh
sshinh over 3 years ago

Hi,

I have a question about a pvs drc.

There are several gds files. I want to verify this PVS DRC at once on linux terminal.
(When verification is complete, Start DE of PVS DRC is automatically executed and I want to show the results.)
I know the Calibre tvf command, but I don't know pvs drc command.
So I want to convert it with the pvs drc command and run it on linux.

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#!tvf

namespace import tvf::*

LAYOUT PRIMARY \"$::env(LAYOUT_PRIMARY)\"
LAYOUT PATH \"$::env(LAYOUT_PATH)\"
DRC RESULTS DATABASE \"$::env(OUTPUT_PATH)\" GDSII _DM 

VERBATIM {

..
..
..

}

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Please help me.

Thanks,

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  • sshinh
    sshinh over 3 years ago

    Hi,

    I have a question about a pvs drc.

    There are several gds files. I want to verify this PVS DRC at once on linux terminal.
    (When verification is complete, Start DE of PVS DRC is automatically executed and I want to show the results.)
    I know the Calibre tvf command, but I don't know pvs drc command.
    So I want to convert it with the pvs drc command and rue it on linux.

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #!tvf

    namespace import tvf::*

    LAYOUT PRIMARY \"$::env(LAYOUT_PRIMARY)\"
    LAYOUT PATH \"$::env(LAYOUT_PATH)\"
    DRC RESULTS DATABASE \"$::env(OUTPUT_PATH)\" GDSII _DM 

    VERBATIM {

    ..
    ..
    ..

    }

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Please help me.

    Thanks,

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 3 years ago

    I don't think there's a command-line option to open the results viewer/debug environment after running PVS, but you'd probably do this:

    cd myRunDir
    pvs \
      -drc \
      -top_cell bussedInv \
      -ui_data \
      -control $PWD/pvsdrcctl \
      -cell_tree $PWD/cell_tree.txt \
      $PWD/.technology.rul
    # then either:
    drcbrowser -db $PWD/bussedInv.drc_errors.ascii.pvstdb
    # or
    drcbrowser -db $PWD/bussedInv.drc_errors.ascii
    # or
    pvsdrcrv -f $PWD/bussedInv.drc_errors.ascii

    Andrew

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  • sshinh
    sshinh over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks for your help for me.

    I do not understand your feedback.

    Plese detailed information for me.

    And I want to verify several gds at once in linux. Any good idea for this?

    Please help me~

    Thanks,

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 3 years ago in reply to sshinh

    Write a script and run PVS in a loop? I did give detailed information in my previous response, but your question is a little vague.

    Andrew

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  • sshinh
    sshinh over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Oh, I'm sorry. I'll give you more details again below.

    There are Design1 and Design2. I want to verify this with one PVS DRC.
    So, I want to run it on linux and see that it automatically becomes Start DE after verification.

    I think I need a foreach or loop command, but I don't know how to do it in detail.
    Could you help me?

    Thanks,

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  • sshinh
    sshinh over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,

    Please help this for me~~

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 3 years ago in reply to sshinh
    sshinh said:
    Please help this for me~

    If this is urgent, please contact customer support. I respond here in my spare time (it's not part of my job to respond on the forums), and to be honest I have very little spare time this week - especially as this is really about how to write shell scripts and not really anything to do with PVS per se.

    Andrew

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