Is there a way to add outputs/expressions into artist automatically?

 Hi,

   i am not very sure about your question, but if you want to add some expression or output signal into current session, you can refer to the analogArtist guide and user interface reference, there are some skill functions can meet your problem. or you can write some skill function to extracte these figure as you mentioned above during the simulation, mostly these functions will be OCEAN function.

Regards,

zfeng

imagesensor123 said:

 Hi,

   i am not very sure about your question, but if you want to add some expression or output signal into current session, you can refer to the analogArtist guide and user interface reference, there are some skill functions can meet your problem. or you can write some skill function to extracte these figure as you mentioned above during the simulation, mostly these functions will be OCEAN function.

Regards,

zfeng

zfeng,

Thanks for the reply. My problem is not how to add certain expressions into Artist and it is how to write skill code to let the Artist to automatically reload some existed expressions/functions store in a text file.

I found edit complex expressions is more handy in a text file with syntax highlight instead of typing manually in Artist Output List Form and it is more easily to maintain.

Besides, I'd like to have a central place to store favorite expressions/functions. So that I don't waste time on finding some used expressions by open different Artist sessions.

Thanks,

qs  

This can't be done in IC5141 without private SKILL functions. In IC615 you can export the outputs to a CSV file and edit, and then re-load them. Or you have the expression editor in the calculator which you can use to remember a set of expressions. Or in ADE XL you can have an OCEAN measurement script attached which will do your calculations and then export one or more of them to the ADE XL outputs - so you can then have specifications associated with them.

Regards,

Andrew.

Andrew Beckett said:

This can't be done in IC5141 without private SKILL functions. In IC615 you can export the outputs to a CSV file and edit, and then re-load them. Or you have the expression editor in the calculator which you can use to remember a set of expressions. Or in ADE XL you can have an OCEAN measurement script attached which will do your calculations and then export one or more of them to the ADE XL outputs - so you can then have specifications associated with them.

Regards,

Andrew.

Andrew,

Thanks for your reply. In Skill Artist Manual, I found using "asiGetOutputList(asiGetCurrentSession())" can get skill structured objects for my saved expressions.

However, I don't know how to write my private SKILL code to add/append this kind of objects.  Is there any detail on this kind of objects?

Thanks,

qs 

The functions you need are private, as I said. Getting the outputs is public, but putting them back again is private.

That's why I said it needed private (undocumented) SKILL functions.

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

I have the same problem as mentioned above. I want to write a script that automatically adds the dc current of every dc supply in

a testbench to the outputs in a ADE L session. So far I only found the "asiGetOutputList" function. Can you tell me the name of the private function and how it works to add stuff to the output list?

Thanks

No, because it wouldn't be private then! The whole point of functions remaining private is that if you start using them, there's some support implied, and then if we need to change something in the implementation, it might break.

You could build a CSV file (as you get with Outputs->Export) and then you could do this (fairly yucky) way:

/* abLoadADECSV.il

Author     A.D.Beckett
Group      Custom IC (UK), Cadence Design Systems Ltd.
Language   SKILL
Date       May 12, 2016 
Modified   
By         

Not a very pretty way of doing this, but there's no procedural
interface, and hiEnqueueCmd/hiRegTimer don't seem to work because
of the blocking nature of the dialog (I think).

Example:

abLoadADECSV(sevSession(hiGetCurrentWindow()) "." "dump.csv")

***************************************************

SCCS Info: @(#) abLoadADECSV.il 05/12/16.09:51:05 1.1

*/

procedure(abLoadADECSV(sevSess dirName fileName)
  let((tmpFile port)
    tmpFile=makeTempFileName(strcat(getTempDir() "/tempCSV"))
    port=outfile(tmpFile)
    fprintf(port "\\a sevImportOutputsFromFile('%s)\n" sevSess)
    fprintf(port "\\a hiFileDialogSetSelection(fileBrowser '(%L %L) 'done)\n"
      dirName fileName)
    fprintf(port "\\a hiFileDialogDone(fileBrowser t)\n")
    close(port)
    hiReplayFile(tmpFile)
    deleteFile(tempFile)
  )
)

Regards,

Andrew.