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Stop XStream from custom skill procedure

Adrian Nistor
Adrian Nistor over 13 years ago

Hello,

I know that XStream is passing each cell to some functions like poParamCellNameMap() or poCellNameMap() in order to change the name of the cells inside the exported gds file; My problem is that I would like to stop the process if I detect one PCell which has some problems.

Is there any possibility to make this ?

 

(More details about my problem: I want to detect PCells which can not be created (functions missing, errors, etc) in the layout; The layouter can load locally made pcell scripts, he can have a pcell layout in he's layour, but when he will export to stream/gds, that locally created pcell will be skipped (for some reasons we maintain "Stream out from virtual memory" disabled and we do not want to enable it). I would like to detect cases like this during the process of exporting and, using a skill script to analyze, to stop te exporting process)

 (I'm using Virtuoso 6.1.4)

 

 

Thank you,

Best Regards,

Adrian

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    dmay over 13 years ago

    You could print your useful information and then add return(nil) to cause the failure. Unfortunately, I don't know how to control the size of the pcellEvalFailed message. Maybe one of the Cadence insiders knows a trick for that so you can avoid oversized instances of your failed pcells.

    Derek

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    dmay over 13 years ago

    You could print your useful information and then add return(nil) to cause the failure. Unfortunately, I don't know how to control the size of the pcellEvalFailed message. Maybe one of the Cadence insiders knows a trick for that so you can avoid oversized instances of your failed pcells.

    Derek

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