Community Custom IC Design Run plan: Can I edit Design Variable setting?

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Run plan: Can I edit Design Variable setting?

StephanWeber

Hi,

in a test I use calcVal for trimming, but in parts of my run plan I want ot edit this. But it looks that it is not possible, because it is grayed out.

What I want is using calcVal with ?cornerName to do the trimming only at Nominal. This is good for MC, but not good for process corner runs, where I need to edit the calcVal.

Is RP just using the active setup for the design variables? Or the var setting when I created the RP?

BTW, in old VSDE itRP was in Tcl and we had always the option to copy settings into RP OR to reference settings from active setup. For Assembler RP it looks more confusing, because e.g. Corners and Run mode can be edited, but Design variables not (this is what I observe).

Bye Stephan

  • Stephan,

    It's the active setup. If you edit the design variable value in the active setup, you'll see the greyed out value change in the run plan too.

    It is not possible currently. In fact I found a discussion (when we added the visibility of the design variables in the run plan by expanding the test) that it could in fact be very confusing to allow test-specific settings to be overridden (I tend to agree - there's a trade off between flexibility and confusion).

    If you want something like this, please contact customer support so that an enhancement can be filed (I didn't find one, but it's hard to find suitable unique things to search on, and it's late and I didn't spend a huge time searching).

    Andrew

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