Symbol Creation for the entire library

There is information on this in the Schematic Editor L User Guide. Explore the sections on Automatically Creating CellViews, Text-To-Schematic Generator, and Symbol and Simulation Library Generator.

There may already be code written by others out there.

Ted

I just found some commands from which i wrote code for generating symbols for a whole library.

procedure(libSymCreation(libname)
libId=ddGetObj(libname)
foreach(cell libId->cells
    foreach(view cell->views
         case(view->name
                ("schematic"
              if(dbOpenCellViewByType(libId->name cell->name "symbol")
  then
printf("symbol already exists \n")
else
                    pinList=schSchemToPinList(libId->name cell->name "schematic")
                    schPinListToSymbol(libId->name cell->name "symbol" pinList)
                 ))
          (t
           )
)
)
)
)

Where libname is the library where the cells are placed.

Thanks.

Good job, Great initiative.

You may want to close your open cellViews to keep within the system limits for number of open files.

Rather than use dbOpenCellViewByType, you can use ddGetObj.

if( ddGetObj( libId~>name cell~>name "symbol") then

This checks for the existence of the symbol view directory without opening it.

Ted,

Opening a cellView doesn't keep the file handle open, so it wouldn't run out of file descriptors. However, it does mean that you are keeping them all in memory - so it's always a good idea to close anything you open to allow it to purge anything no longer needed.

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks guys..

i will update my code as per your suggestions...