Virtuoso GUI process to command

Well, the CDS.log is a transcript of all the commands issued through the user interface. This CDS.log can be replayed (using the -replay option to virtuoso), although you need to take care if you've saved anything during the session because it may not be starting from the same place.

I would say that using the GUI commands is not necessarily the best way of automating things; there's usually (not always, but commonly there is) an equivalent SKILL API which doesn't have a form and is a direct procedural interface. 

Without knowing what you are trying to do, it's hard to say what is the right approach. It's highly unlikely that typing in the commands recorded in the CDS.log would be a sensible way of working.

10 years or so back, I wrote a small toolbar example that allowed you to type in short commands to automate things. Let me dig that out and I'll post a link to it (may be in a couple of days).

Andrew

I just want to import the GDSII file and LEF file and DEF file and then see what the layout looks like. Beacuse the procedure of clicking the GUI is pretty tedious and time-wasting, I am wonder whether there is a method that I can copy the done procedure previous time, and next time I just have to paste the command of last time generated, I can do the procedure fast only with pasting the commands rather than clicking the GUI again.

Thank you, Andrew!

Probably the easiest then is to use the "defin" and "lefin" commands from the UNIX command line. This is covered in the documentation (use the help menu in virtuoso and in the box at the top of the menu type in "lefin" or "defin" and you'll find it). Also you can use "defin -h" and "lefin -h" to see the command-line options.

Andrew

Thank you! Andrew!

After I search for that, I got the following commands:

strmin -library 'CSarray' -strmFile '/users/course/2022F/PDA13400000/g100501528/HW5/HW5_visual/GDSII/cells.gds' -logFile 'strmIn.log'
lefin -lef \"/users/course/2022F/PDA13400000/g100501528/HW5/HW5_visual/LEF/CS.lef\" -lib CSarray -view abstract
defin -def \"/users/course/2022F/PDA13400000/g100501528/HW5/HW5_visual/DEF/CS_4.def\" -lib CSarray

But when I paste to the command bar, there comes a syntax error:

strmin -library 'CSarray' -strmFile '/users/course/2022F/PDA13400000/g100501528/HW5/HW5_visual/GDSII/cells.gds' -logFile 'strmIn.log'
                                    ^
SYNTAX ERROR found at line 1 column 25 of file *ciwInPort*

I have no idea what is going on .

These are commands for the UNIX command line (i.e. outside of Virtuoso), not to type in the CIW. The CIW expects SKILL functions - which are ldtrDefReadOA() and ldtrLefReadOA() - both of which are documented).

Andrew

These are commands for the UNIX command line (i.e. outside of Virtuoso), not to type in the CIW. The CIW expects SKILL functions - which are ldtrDefReadOA() and ldtrLefReadOA() - both of which are documented).

Andrew