How to get Circuit Prospector finders

ciMOSDifferentialPairStructIterator( 
d_cellViewId
t_matchExpression
 )
     => structure_objects_list

Iterator for MOS differential pair structures in a design.

Hello Andrew

 But I want to know the list of all available finders in Stuctures category and then take their iterators and run them. For example I have some custom iterators and several finders. So I want to know what finder corresponds to what iterator. The first quastion is: how to get the list of available finders. And the second: how to get their iterator functions.

Regards

Ilya 

Hi Ilya,

There is a private function to print the list of finders (not one to get them though - just print, so it's for debug purposes), and no SKILL function at all to get the list of categories. Both exist in C++, but haven't been exposed in SKILL.

Similarly there's a private function to print the list of iterators, but not one to get them.

Essentially it seems that the SKILL API has been created to allow them to be registered, but very little there for introspection.

You should contact customer support to request this (since the capabilities exist in C++, as they're needed for the UI, it is feasible for a SKILL API to be added on top).

Regards,

Andrew.

Hello Andrew

 Ok. Thank you. Just as I supposed :). So it seems that at the moment the only thing that I can do is just to create a mapping table Finder-Itterator. But it is convenient for default finders but not for custom ones because in this case I have to redo the mapping everytime when adding a new finder. So I'll open such request then. The only question I have now (actually not related to the issue) is where I can find an example of some custom itterator? I understand that it is just a skill procedure with 2 arguments but I need something like a template with "ci" procedures calls inside. Because I believe you know the robust iterator structure/template that you use for your iterators and if I start to create my own iterator from scratch I can miss something that I did not notice (like itterated instances or bus nets and so on). I wouldn't like if this error will occur in a mature PDKs. So I would be glad to have an example to use it as the reference.

 Regards

Ilya 

Ilya

The documentation is a bit light on examples - there's one in the documentation for ciRegisterIterator, but it's pretty basic.

Best would be to contact customer support about this too - maybe we have some good examples internally that we can share (I've not done too much customization in this area myself, so don't really have anything to hand, but others have).

Regards,

Andrew.