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GUI access during simulation ADEXL

Vladyslav

Hi,

The general question: if it is possible to somehow interact with the Cadence Virtuoso interface during simulation process in ADEXL?

More detail description of my problem:

I have small program that implemented as DockWindow in the schematic view. Here, from the button I would like to run the function that starts several simulations in the row, implemented as ocean scripts. They run in a cyclic function (SKILL), the amount of starts is not known from the beginning and depends on the result of previous run. Respectively, sometimes I want to interrupt and cancel this process, but usually interface is freezed during calculation, as well as it busy between simulations starts, because they are still inside of working function in SKILL script.

Is there any trick or workaround about this difficulty?

  • Not sure this can really be answered without knowing what  your SKILL code is doing. Perhaps you need to use a progress box (e.g. hiDisplayProgressBox) which can be updated during a blocking function and give you the option to cancel the process you're running?

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Thank you for answer, Andrew! I have tested your suggestion with hiDisplayProgressBox, but unfortunately it does not work in my case as well, because seems so during ADEXL simulation (ocnxlRun) all Cadence windows are unresponsive.
    Simplified structure of my procedure may looks as:
    1. Start SKILL function from GUI Button;
    2. The function starts an ADEXL optimization from Ocean script (as ocnxlRun(...));
    3. Read results from Ocean script;
    4. If the results are unsatisfactory, then SKILL function launches itself again.

    So, this function work like in the loop, when ADEXL tests run one after the other and control remains inside of SKILL function.
    Problem is that during ADEXL run, all Cadence windows becoming unresponsive(even modeless hiDisplayProgressBox()) and time between two ADEXL runs is too small.
    I hope my description of procedure is somewhat understandable, if not i will try to provide simple example in SKILL code.

    Regards, Vlad

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