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leCreateContact in IC6

Ghosh

leCreateContact() is not a valid function in IC6.

 Is there a substitute function available?

 Regards

Ghosh

  • skillUser

     Hi Ghosh,

    In IC61x the underlying database is OpenAccess (as opposed to "CDB" for IC5141 and earlier), and as such vias (and "contacts") are no longer instances, but instead they are objects.  The underlying data base change no doubt required changes in the API. There is a function "leHiCreateVia" but this is not a direct replacement of the leCreateContact function.  There are also "dbCreateVia" and "dbCreateViaShapeArray" which might be useful to you.  You would first need to find the "via definition", so you might need something like "techFindViaDefByName", "techFindViaVariantByName", "techFindViaVariant", "dbFindViaHeaderByName" or "dbFindViaVariantByName" - I'm not sure which you would need as I've not played with creating a via placement through SKILL rather than through the interactive GUI commands.

    I hope that this helps you.

    Lawrence.

  • Ghosh

    Thanks Lawrence,

    dbCreatevia is working fine.

  • Ghosh

     Hi Lawrence,

    I used  "techFindViaDefByName" and  "dbCreateVia"  to create via array in my layout, through skill. I am specifying the "cutRows" and "cutColumns" in l_params list. It is working fine.  But I am not able to find the keywords to specify the Row spacing and Column spacing, without which it is placing with default tech-defined spacing(or minimum spacing). Is there any ?

     Regards

    Ghosh

  • Andrew Beckett

    Ghosh,

    It's cutSpacing which is a list - the first entry is the column spacing, and the second is the row spacing.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Ghosh

    Thanks Andrew.

     

     

    Regards,

    Ghosh

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