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How to access pcell instance co-ordinates from within Pcell code.

Jameel
Hi, Is there a way to find out the co-ordinates of the pcell instance from within the pcell code? Say for example, I want to create a pcell that prints a label showing the co-ordinates of the where the pcell is placed. within the code of the pcell I can create the label at the origin but i need to know the co-ordinates of the pcell instance in order to print the label. One way of doing this would be to pass the co-ordinate of the pcell instance as parameters, but am not sure if this is the correct way to do it. Thanks, -Jameel
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  • Jameel,

    Did you not read what I said in my last reply? I stated that pipo/strmout (the background process that does the GDS writing) does not read the .cdsinit.

    I suggested that you have a libInit.il inside the library containing the pcell; this is then loaded the first time the library is accessed - whether that is in virtuoso (or icfb) or pipo/strmout (or indeed any other application that accesses the library).

    There is a way of passing a user defined SKILL file to the stream process, but libInit.il is the cleanest and best way of doing this.

    Regards,

    Andrew
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  • Jameel,

    Did you not read what I said in my last reply? I stated that pipo/strmout (the background process that does the GDS writing) does not read the .cdsinit.

    I suggested that you have a libInit.il inside the library containing the pcell; this is then loaded the first time the library is accessed - whether that is in virtuoso (or icfb) or pipo/strmout (or indeed any other application that accesses the library).

    There is a way of passing a user defined SKILL file to the stream process, but libInit.il is the cleanest and best way of doing this.

    Regards,

    Andrew
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