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Generate clones with SKILL

RVERP

I try to generate a clone family using SKILL. First I generate groups, each containing a single instance, in a list. On this list I use lxCreateSynchronousClonesFromFigGroups().

This works perfectly, but if there is a parameter like total_m to indicate the multiplier, only cells with the same multiplier end up as a clone. Cloning them with the cloning form doesn't make an issue from this, so how can I convince the skill command to do the same?

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  • I'm not sure I entirely understand what you're doing here. Can you share some pictures to clarify? If the multiplier isn't the same, I'm not sure how they can be clones (because presumably they are different), but perhaps I've just misunderstood what you're asking?

    Andrew 

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    The CDS gui to generate clones has the option "exact parameters". With this disabled, instances with a different multiplier value are also found as correct clone candidates. The resulting clones will ignore this parameter difference since "multiplier" doesn't affect the layout of the pcell.

    But when generating the clones with SKILL, there is no "exact parameters" function to disable. If the parameters aren't 100% equal, the group is not considered a good clone candidate.

    The help states that lxCreateSynchronousClonesFromFigGroups uses the clone consistency checker to verify if figGroups are synchronous or not. But I can not find additional information on this clone consistency checker.

  • in reply to RVERP

    Hi RVERP,


    Were you able to resolve this issue? 

  • in reply to BVANH

    I overlooked replying - probably because I was a bit busy at the time. I've not seen any cases on this either, and so I think the right thing to do would be to contact customer support; it may need an enhancement request to implement this.

    Andrew

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