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Defining Procedures from within a Pcell

ahamlett
ahamlett over 16 years ago

With this code inside a pcell and myFunction used from within that pcell, no errors arise so is this a good practice?

I'm wondering if this might cause some errors down the line when a tool is reading the cadence database.

if(!procedurep(getd(stringToSymbol("myFunction"))) then
    procedure( myFunction(name)
        println(name stdout)
    )
)

 

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    gsimard over 16 years ago

    You might also want to define such a function outside your pcell, and of course you must follow the advices of previous posts telling you to use libInit.il to load it so it's defined when your pcell code is run.

     ;; Custom print function for debugging
    (defun print_debug (var)
      (if (boundp 'pcCellView)
          (fprintf stdout "%s => %L\n" pcCellView~>cellName var )
          (fprintf stdout "Top Level => %L\n" var )))

     

    Guillaume

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  • gsimard
    gsimard over 16 years ago

    You might also want to define such a function outside your pcell, and of course you must follow the advices of previous posts telling you to use libInit.il to load it so it's defined when your pcell code is run.

     ;; Custom print function for debugging
    (defun print_debug (var)
      (if (boundp 'pcCellView)
          (fprintf stdout "%s => %L\n" pcCellView~>cellName var )
          (fprintf stdout "Top Level => %L\n" var )))

     

    Guillaume

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