Error of refresh CDF using abConvertComponentParams.il and abInvokeCdfCallbacks.il

I tried your skill file successfully in IC616, Refreshing CDF of umc55nm few month ago. But this time failed

This is because the callback functions are doing type checking, and so you will need to use actual CDF objects rather than the default behaviour which is to use what I call "effective CDF lookalike" objects. You can do that by specifying ?useInstCDF t in the arguments to abInvokeCdfCallbacks or in the config file use:

runCallbacks (?useInstCDF t)

rather than runCallbacks t.

Normally it's OK to use instance CDF rather than cell CDF (I don't think I've ever seen a case where the CDF callbacks require cell CDF (usually because they check cdfgData->id->... within the code) and they do type checking of the arguments to ensure that the object passed in is genuinely a CDF object (rather than my fake object). That would be extraordinarily unlucky.

It will have worked for the other technology you used because the callbacks there were not written to do type checking (and to be honest in this case they are checking the type with the type character "o" which means other, so I do wonder why somebody has bothered doing that as "other" is not strictly just for CDF objects; if they'd have used "g" it would have been OK).

Regards,

Andrew.

This is because the callback functions are doing type checking, and so you will need to use actual CDF objects rather than the default behaviour which is to use what I call "effective CDF lookalike" objects. You can do that by specifying ?useInstCDF t in the arguments to abInvokeCdfCallbacks or in the config file use:

runCallbacks (?useInstCDF t)

rather than runCallbacks t.

Normally it's OK to use instance CDF rather than cell CDF (I don't think I've ever seen a case where the CDF callbacks require cell CDF (usually because they check cdfgData->id->... within the code) and they do type checking of the arguments to ensure that the object passed in is genuinely a CDF object (rather than my fake object). That would be extraordinarily unlucky.

It will have worked for the other technology you used because the callbacks there were not written to do type checking (and to be honest in this case they are checking the type with the type character "o" which means other, so I do wonder why somebody has bothered doing that as "other" is not strictly just for CDF objects; if they'd have used "g" it would have been OK).

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your reply.

I already change it in config file, but still get this Error:

Sorry, I forgot to delete the space between "runCallbacks" and "(", now there is no Error.

But now the schematic still can not display the real value of resistor (the value displayed on schematic is 701.296, not same as 76.2K in property). It seems the CDF refresh can not work.

How can I solve it?

Are you saying you changed the configuration entries to this? : 

(nil
  fromLib "90mp"
  fromCell "nmos_hvt"
  toLib "90mp"
  toCell "nmos_hvt"
  runCallbacks(?useInstCDF t)
)

i.e. no space between the runCallbacks and the open parenthesis. If you do that, it won't actually take any notice of the setting at all, and won't run the callbacks. I wouldn't expect the errors you are seeing if you put the space there.

I was about to ask which versions of abInvokeCdfCallbacks and abConvertComponentParams you are using? There's a comment at the top with an "SCCS" line which gives the version number.

However, I realised that you are not actually running any component conversion at all - it would make more sense to run abInvokeCdfCallbacks(geGetEditCellView() ?useInstCDF t) on the current cellView. Let's see if that works, and then I can tell you how to run it on an entire library. Using the abConvertComponentParams code just to visit everything in the library isn't a particularly good way of doing this...

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

1.I already changed the configuration entries to this. No space between the runCallbacks and the open parenthesis. And got the error snapshot above.

2.The version number of two files:

SCCS Info: @(#) abConvertComponentParams.il 05/23/05.12:00:00 1.

SCCS Info: @(#) abInvokeCdfCallbacks.il 12/03/08.15:27:36 1.12

3.I tried to run abInvokeCdfCallbacks(geGetEditCellView() ?useInstCDF t) in CIW, but it does not work. (The schematic behind CIW is in edit mode.)

How can I solve that?