How can I combine Multipart Path from several .il files?

I'm not sure why it's obvious that this wouldn't work but perhaps that's because my ESP capability is in for repair and so I have no idea what your code is actually doing! I don't think anyone will be able to answer this without having some clue as to what's in your guard_ring_N.il files.

Andrew

I'm not sure why it's obvious that this wouldn't work but perhaps that's because my ESP capability is in for repair and so I have no idea what your code is actually doing! I don't think anyone will be able to answer this without having some clue as to what's in your guard_ring_N.il files.

Andrew

One of the smaller guard ring is like this, the other ones are modification of it using different layer(s) and sizes. I created all of them from Multipart Path.

Here is one of the examples. This consists of only 1 layer.

prog((tech techLibName techFileName)
techLibName = "tech_name"
techFileName = "tech.db"
tech = techOpenTechFile(techLibName techFileName "r")
if(tech==nil then
return(nil)
)
;The template name is : my_template

leDefineMPPTemplate(
?techId tech
?name "GR_JT_2u_separation"
?layer list("JT" "drawing")
?width 2.000000
?choppable t
?endType "truncate"
?beginExt 0.000000
?endExt 0.000000
?justification "center"
?offset 0.000000
) ; end of leDefineMPPTemplate procedure
) ; end of prog in ASCII file


This is the big guard ring that I mentioned earlier.

OK, so those just define the templates. What's the problem with loading several files - surely it will just define all the templates?

Andrew

Yes, that only loads all the 6 templates.
Excuse me for not being more clear.
With these templates I need to create smaller guard ring multiple times in order to create the big guard ring.
I upload the big guard ring in previous reply.

What I am trying to do is creating the big guard ring in smallest number of steps.

You either need to come up with a more complex template that includes all these rings, to write some SKILL code that creates the multi-part path as you wish, or create a fluid guard ring PCell (easiest with PCell Designer) that has all the flexibility you need. You're not going to achieve that just by loading several templates.

Andrew 

Hi Andrew,
What is the the name of licence for Pcell Designer?
I just want to make sure if I have it.
From here, I got some info about Pcell Designer. I checked on CIW-->Tools and did not find Pcell Designer.
I checked also in CIW-->Options-->Licence, there is no names resembling Pcell Designer.

It's unlikely you have a license without having installed it - it's a separate (very small) installation (the PCD25 release on downloads.cadence.com ) which is then loaded via your .cdsinit. The license doesn't show up in the license UI, but if you look in your license file it would show the feature "Pcell_Designer". 

You should contact your account manager/team at Cadence as we normally would have a specific discussion about how best to use the PCell Designer technology.

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Is there SKILL code/command to automate the MPP Guard Ring creation? I cannot find it in the SKILL reference doc.
It actually works well but I need to select instance and shift+G multiple times.

I don't have anything to do the wrapping part (although that's potentially not that difficult if you can compute the bBox of the objects or maybe the bBox of a particular layer within the instances to compute the bounding box (maybe with some over-sizing to allow margins) and then use Can I create a Multi Part Path in SKILL based on a technology file template? to create the MPP based on a template using SKILL.

Andrew