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SKILL for changing via.

Leonardo Vinci

I want to write a skill code for changing vias. For eg: 
I will make 2 bindkeys, one for changing via to up metal level and other for changing via to down metal level. 

Below i am planning to change via M1V1M2 to via M2V2M3.

What am i planning to do is to select a via, and querying it to get its via definition name as shown below:

geGetSelSet()~>viaHeader~>viaDefName ........(1)                                                          =>("M1V1M2")

Now i planned to change this list(destructively) to the via definition since i want to change the via one metal level up: 

setcar(geGetSelSet()~>viaHeader~>viaDefName "M2V2M3") ............(2)                         =>("M2V2M3")

But nothing happens. After running code(2), when i again run code(1), it gives me code(1)'s output i.e ("M1V1M2"). 

I am doing wrong. Can you help?! 

Thanks!

Leonardo da Vinci

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  • Two things:

    1. In general, performing a destructive change on a  list returned from the database will not have an effect. That's because the list is a representation of the database values, not a pointer to the database itself.
    2. Specifically, you cannot change the type of via by changing properties of the via; you have to delete the via and create a new one (this is different from instances, where you can change the master attribute on the instance object).

    Regards,

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Regarding to your 1) and 2) point below code works for changing via without deleting the vias, as you told.  

    procedure(viachange2()

    cvId= geGetEditCellView()

    vias = geGetSelSet()

    leReplace(cvId vias list(list("via definition" "==" "M2V2M3")))

    Why is this working and not my code (which i started the thread with) is not working? 

    Also this code has problem, it doesn't take the DRC enclosures as we going high in metals causing DRC. Tha'ts why i am not using this one and trying to write my own in other way. But it works, and violates what you said in point 1) and 2). 

    Thanks! 

    Leonardo da Vinci

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  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Regarding to your 1) and 2) point below code works for changing via without deleting the vias, as you told.  

    procedure(viachange2()

    cvId= geGetEditCellView()

    vias = geGetSelSet()

    leReplace(cvId vias list(list("via definition" "==" "M2V2M3")))

    Why is this working and not my code (which i started the thread with) is not working? 

    Also this code has problem, it doesn't take the DRC enclosures as we going high in metals causing DRC. Tha'ts why i am not using this one and trying to write my own in other way. But it works, and violates what you said in point 1) and 2). 

    Thanks! 

    Leonardo da Vinci

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  • in reply to Leonardo Vinci

    This does delete the via and add it again. It's just using a higher level layout editor function (rather than a db function) to do it. Unfortunately all it does is preserve all the other attributes on the via - it has no idea that the overlaps need changing (it's the same as doing the Tools->Find/Replace in the layout editor). If you look at the object id returned as car(geGetSelSet()) before and after you do the leReplace, you'll see it's a different object id.

    So this doesn't violate anything I said before. You probably need to use the via functions mentioned in a previous thread to compute the correct values for the new replacement via.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Yes, i tried and tested it. Thanks!

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