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Default (or script) ADE Stimuli

meland

Hello All,

I am wondering if there is a way to either alter the default ADE stimuli or change it through script. I would prefer if all of my stimuli would default to a 0v DC source which is enabled. 

I suspect that this is done in some way through the asi function calls in the ADE L Skill reference manual, but I'm not able to figure it out. I have some level of skill experience, but I have never skill scripted anything with the ADE.

I work in both cadence 5.1.41 and 6.1.5, but if there is not an easy method for cadence 5 that is fine.

Perhaps my overall approach is flawed though and there is a better way of doing what I want. My overall goal is to more easily set up and test at higher levels where there are potentially hundreds of stimuli. I haven't found a way which works well for doing this. Going through and editing one by one is quite tedious. I tried vector files, but I couldn't do anything bigger than a 4 bit bus . I had issues scripting a general stimuli file (An issue I had scripting the two of these was getting cadence to return the pins with the buses expanded and keeping reference to the pin direction). I could also do AMS, but I do not know an easy way to set up AMS and have never gone down that road. Note, I do not have an ncverilog license available

Some direction on how to go about this would be great.

Thanks,

-Matt

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  • meland

     Slight update:

    I've tried several things to solve this to no avail. I tried moving everything in the foreach loop to a separate procedure hoping I could trick it into releasing whatever was holding it up. I tried using the function call  when I hit apply button ( _hiFormApplyCB(artStmStimuliFormXX) ) opposed to the artStmChangeCB function. And several other more desperate attempts not worth mentioning.

    Finally and surprisingly, after having waited 5-10 minutes for my stimuli to be set I got very annoyed with it and went to my CIW window and started bashing on CTRL-C. Tada!! I got many errors in my CIW stating  "*Error* parser: terminated by signal while reading input", but it then just quickly went through all of my stimuli changing them how I was wanting.

     This DOES work. However, it is obviously not clean at all. Seeing as how I was hoping to distribute this to colleagues I was wondering if there was a better way of doing this, or if I should try contacting customer support about this issue again.

     Thanks,

    -Matt

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  • meland

     Slight update:

    I've tried several things to solve this to no avail. I tried moving everything in the foreach loop to a separate procedure hoping I could trick it into releasing whatever was holding it up. I tried using the function call  when I hit apply button ( _hiFormApplyCB(artStmStimuliFormXX) ) opposed to the artStmChangeCB function. And several other more desperate attempts not worth mentioning.

    Finally and surprisingly, after having waited 5-10 minutes for my stimuli to be set I got very annoyed with it and went to my CIW window and started bashing on CTRL-C. Tada!! I got many errors in my CIW stating  "*Error* parser: terminated by signal while reading input", but it then just quickly went through all of my stimuli changing them how I was wanting.

     This DOES work. However, it is obviously not clean at all. Seeing as how I was hoping to distribute this to colleagues I was wondering if there was a better way of doing this, or if I should try contacting customer support about this issue again.

     Thanks,

    -Matt

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