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How to add personal application to the RMB menu in the Library Manager? And also get the selected view object.

fatcat1206

Hi All

I developed a piece of code, which is a text generator, which can grab the pin definitions from a existing file, and generate the content based on user defined templates and keywords.

I was trying to find a proper entry for this application. One idea is to call it in the "Library Manager", by selecting a veriloga/verilogams/function view, and click the RMB. In the pop up menu, there is a entry for my code.

Does anyone knows how to do that?

Besides, I also need to get the corresponding file of that view, it would be input argument for my App.

Best Regards

Yi

  • Hi Yi,

    The library manager may be customised by putting some functions in a file cdsLibMgr.il and some in your .cdsinit. The documentation for this is in the Cadence Application Infrastructure Guide and also in the Library Manager User Guide. The idea is that you define the menus in the cdsLibMgr.il but the action is performed in the main virtuoso executable via a callback there.

    In order to get the master file for a cellView you'd use:

    masterFile=ddGetObj(libName cellName viewName "*")

    and then you could use:

    fileName=ddGetObjReadPath(masterFile)
    filePort=infile(fileName)
    ...

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Hi Andrew

    Thank you for your reply.

    Do you happen to have an example for the "cdsLibMgr.il" file.

    I take a look in documentation, it would be helpful if I have an example by hand, which put everything together.

    I also take a look in my design environment, there is no such file.
    Since it's customer defined file, it seems that no one use it before in my place.

    Best Regards


    Yi

  • Yi,

    There are several examples in the documentation (actually written by me, taken from an application note I wrote on this subject many years ago).

    Regards,

    Andrew

  • Hi Andrew

    Thanks,

    I have found some examples in the "Cadence Application Infrastructure SKILL Reference", in Charter 4 "Library Manager Functions"

    Best Regards

    Yi

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