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How to use procedure inside pcDefinePCell??

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Hi ,

  Is it possible to create a pcell based on runnig of procedure?? I meant if the procedure has many conditions inside it, it should be able to produce pcell for each condition.

If calling a procedure inside a pcDefinePCell is not effective,then how can i link two codes.I meant i make a code using procedure(xyz(....))

in a code named myCode.il and in another code named myPCell.il i create pcells based on conditions given in myCode.il??

Can this be done??

Thanks,

C10

 

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  • Hi Carlton,

    You can put whatever functions in whatever files you like. SKILL doesn't care - you need to load the files to use them though (e.g. using the load() function). Note it is possible to set up an autoload property so the source for a function is auto-loaded the first time you want to use it (search for autoload in the SKILL documentation). You don't need to "link" (whatever that means) the two files.

    So you can define a function in myProc.il and refer to it in myPcell.il - provided that the code has been loaded. One point I should make is that if you have your pcell code (within the pcDefinePCell macro) call auxilliary functions, those need to be defined (i.e. loaded) whenever the pcell is used. In the example I posted, I call a function AGDEfingerCap which was defined in a separate file; I just needed to ensure that all those auxilliary functions were loaded from the pcell library's libInit.il file (note you don't need to call the pcDefinePCell from the libInit.il file though, as the code for the pcell is stored within the pcell cellView once it has been created).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Hi Carlton,

    You can put whatever functions in whatever files you like. SKILL doesn't care - you need to load the files to use them though (e.g. using the load() function). Note it is possible to set up an autoload property so the source for a function is auto-loaded the first time you want to use it (search for autoload in the SKILL documentation). You don't need to "link" (whatever that means) the two files.

    So you can define a function in myProc.il and refer to it in myPcell.il - provided that the code has been loaded. One point I should make is that if you have your pcell code (within the pcDefinePCell macro) call auxilliary functions, those need to be defined (i.e. loaded) whenever the pcell is used. In the example I posted, I call a function AGDEfingerCap which was defined in a separate file; I just needed to ensure that all those auxilliary functions were loaded from the pcell library's libInit.il file (note you don't need to call the pcDefinePCell from the libInit.il file though, as the code for the pcell is stored within the pcell cellView once it has been created).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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