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how to poll a text file at regular interval using SKILL

fazul

hi all,

I am very new to SKILL programming.   

I am currently writing a program to do some statistical calculations (at runtime) using the results of monte carlo simulation. 

Since the simulator seems to be writing values in chucks and there are times when my program has to wait for new values to be written, I thought of polling the 'mcdata' result text file on a interval of fixed time (say 1min) ..

when i searched for appropriate functions to implement a time delay between each lineread()s,  i could find only ipcSleep(delay) and hiRegTimer("func()" delay) functions  but both of them doesnt seem to be useful in my case..

ipcSleep() pauses everything even the monte carlo simulation run

hiRegTimer() just places the callback function to be run after a delay and proceed with the next line of my code..

How can i do this? kindly guide me . I hope i stated my problem clear enough...

thanks in advance,

-Fazul

 

 

 

  • Try simIlSleep and see if it helps.

  • Which version are you using? How are you running the simulations - interactively through the user interface or using an OCEAN script?

    More detail really needed to be able to suggest a way of solving this. It should not be necessary to poll the file; anyway this would be hard to know when it is finished...
    So there could be other ways of triggering the code to run at simulation end, but I'd need to know the above info.

    You can probably also use my abStats.il on support.cadence.com to parse the mcdata file to compute statistical info - but you'd still need to ensure the file was complete.

    Regards,

    Andrew
  • Might help, but I think it's fundamentally the wrong approach, as I outlined in my last reply.

    Regards,

    Andrew

  • thanks a lot for that very  prompt reply... i am giving the additional information...  

    -> i just tried the simIlSleep() function but it too seems to pause both my program and monte carlo simulation run.

    -> the version i am using is ic5.1.41 ISR144

    * i am running interactively . i am trying to run my program from the ASA as an additional menu dropdown option and

    so has its own gui form

    * actually at all cost i need to run both my program (statistical calculation program) and monte carlo simulation in parallel.

    i just have a pointer to the last line read that i keep incrementing in my while loop and the loop goes until the pointer equals the 'number of runs' value...

    please tell me if there is a better way to do other than this

    thanks once again  

    --Fazul

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