Automation using SKILL language

How long is a piece of string?

Please read the forum guidelines. Your question is too open ended to reasonably give a response.

Regards,

Andrew.

Despite the very vague and open-ended question I'll take a stab at an answer...

You could look through the CDS.log file for some of the actions being performed; if you are unfamiliar with the commands involved when you see them in the log file, you can mark "START" and "STOP", for example, before and after the operations you are trying to capture (by typing something like these strings in the CIW), then you can identify the sections you are interested in.  The problem is that many of the commands used will be "hi" (human interface) versions of commands intended for interactive use, rather than automation/batch mode processing.  So you will need to identify if there are non-hi equivalents of the commands (many commands do have non-hi versions). Ultimately one or more operations would probably need to be gathered into procedures for ease-of-reuse.  This outlines one approach to one aspect of automation, but as Andrew said, your question is too imprecise to guess what you want.

If you have a specific task in mind, start asking about that - there might even be an existing example that you can use or leverage...

Regards,

Lawrence.

Lawrence's last line holds a key notion.

1. What do you want to accomplish? The more specific, the better.
2. What are the inputs and the expected output?
3. How much user interaction is needed?
4. What steps should be taken? What are their order?

You may have to step through the process manually to see if your assumptions are correct. Then you can architect the solution and finally code it and test it.

That is how long the string is, from start to end.

Ted

My objectives are-

1. Design several modules to automate recurring design tasks for Cadence Virtuoso (schematic and layout).

2. Customize the work environment for the individual designer.

Any help regarding this? please share...

Your objectives are still way too fuzzy; nobody is going to be able to help you with such a generic, unspecific request since nobody can read your mind. I doubt that you will get any useful responses to this...

Regards,

Lawrence.