Using ocnxlRun in a loop

 I tried to reply, but I guess it didn't go through, so I'll try again.

Andrew Beckett said:

Hi John,

OK, fair enough. For the second we have a capability called "pre run scripts" which is in IC615 (it's in IC614 under an engineering release flag) which allows you to effectively run a bit of OCEAN before each iteration of the monte carlo. In fact you can run the monte carlo iteration, run a number of simulations (e.g. to "tune" the design), and then finally do you're measurements. This is supported in ADE XL, and also would work from OCEAN XL.

This would help.  When will IC615 be available?

Andrew Beckett said:

For the first, there's no good solution, except you can still use the monteExpr/monteCarlo/monteRun approach - this is still supported for legacy reasons.

I had tried this, but maybe I gave up too early.  I got this error:

monteRun()
*WARNING* IC5141 based Monte Carlo scripts will not be supported in future release of IC61 OCEAN.
 Users should migrate their Monte Carlo scripts to OCEANXL

*WARNING* IC5141 based Monte Carlo scripts will not be supported in future release of IC61 OCEAN.
 Users should migrate their Monte Carlo scripts to OCEANXL

*Error* slotValue: no such slot - mcstartingrunnumber

Any ideas how to fix this?  We couldn't find any documentation of monteRun in cadence 6.

Andrew Beckett said:

What I would suggest is giving all this info in the service request you're filing, as it gives good justification as to why we should implement ocnxlRun sooner rather than later.

 

We have one in, and we put a link to this thread.

Andrew Beckett said:

Note you could do it by using (say) ipcBeginProcess() to launch a background virtuoso (or ocean) session which is loading  an OCEAN script, and that could run at the same time as the second run. But it's less convenient than being able to do a non-blocking run().

We may try this, but we were worried about keeping track of processes and using lots of licenses.

Andrew Beckett said:

If you run from ADE XL itself, you can do this (submit both jobs simultaneously, without blocking), if you don't mind the UI being open.

This would be for starting many different cells, but I couldn't change a variable on each iteration unless I have the updated version that can pre run scripts?  Even for the many different cells I would need to individual open and start their runs right?

 I tried to reply, but I guess it didn't go through, so I'll try again.

Andrew Beckett said:

Hi John,

OK, fair enough. For the second we have a capability called "pre run scripts" which is in IC615 (it's in IC614 under an engineering release flag) which allows you to effectively run a bit of OCEAN before each iteration of the monte carlo. In fact you can run the monte carlo iteration, run a number of simulations (e.g. to "tune" the design), and then finally do you're measurements. This is supported in ADE XL, and also would work from OCEAN XL.

This would help.  When will IC615 be available?

Andrew Beckett said:

For the first, there's no good solution, except you can still use the monteExpr/monteCarlo/monteRun approach - this is still supported for legacy reasons.

I had tried this, but maybe I gave up too early.  I got this error:

monteRun()
*WARNING* IC5141 based Monte Carlo scripts will not be supported in future release of IC61 OCEAN.
 Users should migrate their Monte Carlo scripts to OCEANXL

*WARNING* IC5141 based Monte Carlo scripts will not be supported in future release of IC61 OCEAN.
 Users should migrate their Monte Carlo scripts to OCEANXL

*Error* slotValue: no such slot - mcstartingrunnumber

Any ideas how to fix this?  We couldn't find any documentation of monteRun in cadence 6.

Andrew Beckett said:

What I would suggest is giving all this info in the service request you're filing, as it gives good justification as to why we should implement ocnxlRun sooner rather than later.

 

We have one in, and we put a link to this thread.

Andrew Beckett said:

Note you could do it by using (say) ipcBeginProcess() to launch a background virtuoso (or ocean) session which is loading  an OCEAN script, and that could run at the same time as the second run. But it's less convenient than being able to do a non-blocking run().

We may try this, but we were worried about keeping track of processes and using lots of licenses.

Andrew Beckett said:

If you run from ADE XL itself, you can do this (submit both jobs simultaneously, without blocking), if you don't mind the UI being open.

This would be for starting many different cells, but I couldn't change a variable on each iteration unless I have the updated version that can pre run scripts?  Even for the many different cells I would need to individual open and start their runs right?