List of environment variables for defaults in virtuoso

It's this:

envGetVal("adexl.gui" "detailViewShowDefault")

envSetVal("adexl.gui" "detailViewShowDefault" 'string "\"Test\"  \"Corners\" \"Scalar Expressions\" \"Waveform Expressions\" \"Signals\" \"Corner Expressions\" \"Post Run Results\" \"Device Checks\" \"User-Defined Columns\" \"Run Statistics\"")

in IC6.1.8 you can use Options->cdsenv editor and search for "column" for example. It found this (more by luck than judgement, as "Column" is in the list of values)

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. The skill code worked. However, I can't find cdsenv editor in Options menu. I am using ICADVM181.090. 

I am also interested to know if there is a way to open config in edit mode by default (generally it opens in read only mode and I have to manually change it to edit mode) when I right click a test on Assembler and select Design option. Please let me know if there is a way. Thanks for your time! 

That's odd. The menu is definitely there in ICADVM18.1-64b.500.9 :

Maybe you have an outdated or site-customised "ciw.menus" file which doesn't contain this entry. You can check that by typing in the CIW:

ddGetStartup("ciw.menus")

If so, you probably need to get that updated or synchronised with the version in <ICinstDir>/tools/dfII/etc/tools/menus/ciw.menus

You can invoke it by calling startCdsenvEditor() in the CIW.

For opening in editable mode, there's a cdsenv for this too covered in this article:  Open Design in Tab from Data View opens schematic and configuration in read only mode (hint: search in the cdsenv editor for "openDesign" and you'll find the way to change the access mode to "a").

Andrew.

startCdsenvEditor() in the CIW worked! Thanks so much Andrew! I appreciate it.

Also, do you know the env variable so that I can have @cellName rather than @partName when creating symbol by default? I tried to search for this on cdsenv list, but couldn't.

This is defined by the "tsg" template you're using. The definitions are defined by a SKILL variable tsgTemplateMasters which can be redefined in your .cdsinit - here's the default definition from <ICinstDir>/tools/dfII/samples/local/schConfig.il : 

tsgTemplateMasters = list(
	list("digital" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/default.tsg"))
	list("analog"  (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/artist.tsg"))
	list("artist"  (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/artist.tsg"))
	list("PCB"     (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/package.tsg"))
	list("metric"  (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/metric.tsg"))
)

If you copy the default.tsg from <ICinstDir>/tools/dfII/samples/symbolGen/default.tsg to your own location somewhere, and edit this to replace [@partName] with [@cellName], then add the new file to the tsgTemplateMasters variable:

tsgTemplateMasters = list(
	list("digital" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/default.tsg"))
	list("analog"  (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/artist.tsg"))
	list("artist"  (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/artist.tsg"))
	list("PCB"     (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/package.tsg"))
	list("metric"  (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/metric.tsg"))
	list("mydigital" "/path/to/your/own/default.tsg")
)

Finally set this env var in your .cdsinit to pick your own to be used by default:

envSetVal("schematic" "tsgTemplateType" 'string "mydigital")

Andrew

Hi Andrew, Thanks so much! Do you know the env variable to show just the Used layers by default when I open layout xl suite on virtuoso? 

Hi Andrew, Thanks so much! Do you know the env variable to show just the Used layers by default when I open layout xl suite on virtuoso? 

envSetVal("layout" "pteUsedOnlyScope" 'boolean t)