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skill ruby interface for openaccess

skillseeker
skillseeker over 11 years ago

Hi,

I am asking for the best method to approach this problem.

 

I would like to execute skill commands on a Cadence database in a unix shell command line. Ideally i would not want to worry if the ICFB session is active or not. So i would prefer not to use ipc protocols as my understanding is these require you to connect to a live Cadence ICFB session.

Also would not prefer to run icfb -nograph mode and execute skill this way.

My OS platform is SUSE11. The programming language that needs to interact with the skill output is ruby.

What is the best method to achive this case.

 

Thanks
 

 

 

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    skillseeker over 11 years ago

     Andrew,

    Trying to build a eda tool that uses information from Cadence Database. Ideally i would like to not use interprocess communication as this requires a running instance of ICFB. I am looking to access Cadence database information witout having to run "icfb". I looked at the dbAccess which is useful but would not be a complete solution.

     Is there a way to access the Cadence database for example here is what i intend to do.

    1) access available libraries defined in the cds.lib path and get all the cells available in each of those libraries. 

    2) get all the views available  and traverse the hierarchy to build an xml representation of the file based on a switch view and stop view.

    Can these two steps be done without having to have a running instance of "icfb". If there is any methodology that exists today on SUSE platform that would be helpful to know.

    Thanks

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    skillseeker over 11 years ago

     Andrew,

    Trying to build a eda tool that uses information from Cadence Database. Ideally i would like to not use interprocess communication as this requires a running instance of ICFB. I am looking to access Cadence database information witout having to run "icfb". I looked at the dbAccess which is useful but would not be a complete solution.

     Is there a way to access the Cadence database for example here is what i intend to do.

    1) access available libraries defined in the cds.lib path and get all the cells available in each of those libraries. 

    2) get all the views available  and traverse the hierarchy to build an xml representation of the file based on a switch view and stop view.

    Can these two steps be done without having to have a running instance of "icfb". If there is any methodology that exists today on SUSE platform that would be helpful to know.

    Thanks

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