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Is it possible to add properties to a layout pcell?

Sheppy

Hi,

This is what I would like to do:

The p-cell code to generate a layout instance must store certain values computed in the code as a property to that instance.

This is simular to someting I have done before: added properties of computed values for a group in layout.

In the code for generating shapes in a layout, I group all the generated shapes together and then add properties to this group. I use the command:

dbCreateProp( topGroupID fieldName fieldType fieldValue )

I want to do the same with a p-cell. The values I want to report are not parameters (I don't want them to be that either), so they should be stored as properties. When an instance is instantiated, upon selecting that instance and hitting the "q" key, I wnat properties to show-up under the properties tab. I tried to do it with the same command like so:

dbCreateProp( pcCellView fieldName fieldType fieldValue )

but this did not work.

Is there any way to get the p-cell code to store certain values as properties to the instance it is creating?

With kind regards,

Sjoerd

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  • Sheppy

    HI Andrew,

    Thank you very much with the suggested solution (the one with pcCellView...). It works perfect and it is actually exactly what my colleague wanted to have.

    And I learned something new: normally, when I wanted to get the value of a certain property, I would do something using:

    objId~>master~>prop~>value (this returns a list of all values of all properties, so not exactly the value of one property, but you'll get the point, this would be used in a foreach or setof sequence)

    I did not know it is actually much simpler to do:

    objId~>master~>propName (this will return the value of only the property you specify, much simpler)

    With kind regards,

    Sjoerd

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  • Sheppy

    HI Andrew,

    Thank you very much with the suggested solution (the one with pcCellView...). It works perfect and it is actually exactly what my colleague wanted to have.

    And I learned something new: normally, when I wanted to get the value of a certain property, I would do something using:

    objId~>master~>prop~>value (this returns a list of all values of all properties, so not exactly the value of one property, but you'll get the point, this would be used in a foreach or setof sequence)

    I did not know it is actually much simpler to do:

    objId~>master~>propName (this will return the value of only the property you specify, much simpler)

    With kind regards,

    Sjoerd

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