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Shift-F assigned to hiZoomAbsoluteScale(getCurrentWindow() 1.0)

dastraight

Not really sure if I should post in the SKILL section or not.  Forgive me if this post was misplaced. 

I'd like to turn on all layers of all pcells in my layout (currently all pcells look like a red box).   At my last job Shift-F would show all layers as if they were flat.   That isn't working with this setup.  So, I selected:

          Options --> Bindkeys... --> Layout

After looking closely at the Bindkey Editor I noticed that Shift-F was assigned to hiZoomAbsoluteScale(getCurrentWindow() 1.0).   Interestingly. the F key is assigned hiZoomAbsoluteScale(getCurrentWindow() 0.95)

Anyway, I really have no clue what command I need that will show all layers of a pcell as if they were flat.  I tried reading through the Bindkey Editor (the list of keys assigned to commands) - nothing seemed obvious to me - but, I really don't know what I'm looking for either.

Are bindkeys different for different PDKs?   I'm using IBM 9hp (bicmos9hp is the actual name of the library and Global Foundries bought this from IBM) 

I also tried searching around for a list of commands but didn't find anything.   I'm not sure if these are "SKILL" commands or not.  Again apologies if I posted this in the wrong place.

David 

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  • David,

    I've seen some PDKs (including from the foundry you mention) that do include an optional set of different bind keys which can be loaded (or not) from the .cdsinit. Looks as if they have been loaded in  your case.

    You could re-load the "default" bindkeys afterwards in your .cdsinit by using:

    load(prependInstallPath("samples/local/leBindKeys.il"))

    The standard shift-F binding is to:

    hiGetCurrentWindow()->stopLevel = dbGetMaxHierDepth()-1

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks Andrew - that was extremely helpful.   For some reason I wasn't able to modify this - either through the GUI or the .cdsinit.  I'm sure I can figure that out on my own though.  For now, I simply typed the commands directly into the CIW. Both hiGetCurrentWindow()->stopLevel = dbGetMaxHierDepth()-1  and  load(prependInstallPath("samples/local/leBindKeys.il")) worked.  Also, I took a guess at using  hiGetCurrentWindow()->stopLevel = 0 for hiding layers (ctrl-F).  Which isn't really needed if I load leBindKeys.il  - but I was just getting familiar with Cadence/SKILL.  Thanks again.  

    -David 

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  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks Andrew - that was extremely helpful.   For some reason I wasn't able to modify this - either through the GUI or the .cdsinit.  I'm sure I can figure that out on my own though.  For now, I simply typed the commands directly into the CIW. Both hiGetCurrentWindow()->stopLevel = dbGetMaxHierDepth()-1  and  load(prependInstallPath("samples/local/leBindKeys.il")) worked.  Also, I took a guess at using  hiGetCurrentWindow()->stopLevel = 0 for hiding layers (ctrl-F).  Which isn't really needed if I load leBindKeys.il  - but I was just getting familiar with Cadence/SKILL.  Thanks again.  

    -David 

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