PVS design rule

It's not entirely clear what you're trying to do - you can't just run a single command from SKILL. You'd need to build a PVS deck, and then run the "pvs" command from SKILL using system or ipcBeginProcess. See this article with some info on doing that (there's probably others - this was from a 30 second search on the support site).

As for rule writing, this is covered in the PVS Developers Guide, which can be found by running <PVSinstDir>/bin/cdnshelp

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for the quick reply. I am using the skill the command 'pvsApplyDRC in which a ,pvl file  is one of the arguments  and off course my .pvl file  is a pvs rule file which includes all the necessary parts e.g.   variables setting, Layer Def and Mapping,  Layer Operations  and set of rule checks and then I mapped back to virtuoso layout the output layers that I wanted.

I have already opened the cdnshelp for PVS,  I need to look if there is something there that describes how to use Layer Generation/Operation command.  Another example is the  command

'rectangles in svrf .  in PVS it is called 'rect_gen  and within this command there are some other optional arguments  that I can use but I need to know the proper syntax for it.

Best Regards,

Lawrence

Lawrence,

I'm confused. The PVS Developers Guide gives the syntax of the rect_gen command and what the arguments mean. So what is unclear?

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

sorry for the confusion.  At first I was just looking into an old pvs rundeck (the foundry converted the calibre lvs rundeck to pvs)  that's how I run into 'Rect_Gen.

I couldn't find it first in the documentation but a while after I replied I was able to find what I was looking for  in the pvs/bin/cdsnshelp (the one that you mentioned in your first reply)  so thank you very much for the support. 

Have I good day.

Best Regards,

Lawrence