VI Editor Script

Why would you want to do it this way? The Skill language is sufficient to be able to adjust all those coordinate values without you having to dump a text file, edit that text file in vi and then reload it. If you can explain more clearly what you wish to do with the layout (rather than explaining the odd methodology), I'm sure someone on this forum can help you.

Which shapes do you want to modify? ("everything contact metal implant" is a little unclear)
How do you want to modify them? ("stretch the length" - are you wanting to stretch all in the y direction by l_float0offset?)

foreach(shp geGetEditCellView()~>shapes
  when(member(shp~>layerName list("contact" "metal" "implant))
    case(shp~>objType
      ("polygon"
        newPtList=nil
        foreach(pt shp~>points
          do something with the point and build a new point list
        )
        shp~>points=newPtList
      )
      ("rect"
        adjust the bbox
        shp~>bBox = bBox
      )
      ("path"
        newPtList=nil
        foreach(pt shp~>points
          do something with the point and build a new point list
        )
        shp~>points=newPtList
      )
      (t
        printf("Found %s objType and did not adjust it\n" shp~>objType)
      )
    )
  )
)

Derek

Hi Xv12,

I agree with Derek, and I'd like to build on his suggestions.  For adjusting points you can use the function geTransformUserPoint() with an appropriate transform to adjust each point, and you can use the geTransformUserBBox() to adjust a box, such as for the 'rect' case.  So, if you wished to move something in the y direction, the transform argument to these functions might look like

list(0:yOffset "R0")

If you are performing a stretch, then you would need to decide which point or points need to remain and which ones are to be adjusted. There is a function leStretchFig() that could perform a SKILL-level stretch (i.e. without needing to haev the layout open graphically, if needing to perform batch processing, for example).

The dbWriteSkill method is probably not the best or most efficient approach.

I hope this helps - but as Derek mentioned, more details about what you need/want to do would be useful in getting better answers and solutions.

Regards,

Lawrence.

 Hi Tien,

Neither Derek nor I mentioned PCells, so I'm not sure where you got this from.  It is possible to write SKILL that can act directly on a layout or schematic cellview (or multiple cellviews, one at a time) so that the cellview can be queried and even modified in a procedural fashion.  Are the "doughnut" shapes of objType "donut", or are they polygons constructed as closed shapes?  If you have additional shapes to be placed as another shape is stretched, have you considered using a multi-part path (MPP) ROD object as can be created using the menu Create -> Multipart Path ?  Then the contact shapes can be added as the master path shape is stretched...

Regards,

Lawrence.

You're mixing terminology all over the place here, which makes it very unclear. The example you gave in the original post looked like pcell code (i.e. what you were changing to, with all those pcCellView references etc), but yet you say you don't want to create a pcell. Then in this last append you say you want to "form a simple pcell". It's no wonder nobody understands what you're trying to do!

As has been said consistently, dumping to SKILL and editing the SKILL is not a terribly efficient way of stretching some shapes. It would be easier to write some SKILL code to identify the shapes you want to edit (maybe even select them in the layout editor) and then have SKILL code manipulate the points for those shapes.

If you're asking a question about how to change a floating point number in the dumped SKILL code in vi to a number without an exponent, then that's going to be quite hard. However, getting rid of the multiple zeros is just a matter of doing:

:g/0*e/s//e/g

If you want to preserve one 0, use:

:g/0+e/s//0e/g

Regards,

Andrew.