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virtuoso stream in by SKILL code question

GGLin

importCommand = strcat("strmin -library " libName " -strmFile " layoutPath " -logFile " libName "_in.log" ) 

system(importCommand )

Currently I use the code above to import 2 GDS file into different lib then I want to create a new cell, which the 2 gds top cell are placed in this new cell. 

But I faced a problem that the the code after system command won't wait the system command completed and then I cannot get the cellview in the import lib.

and i also try the xstInDoTranslate and i found the same behavior

Is there any way to fix this problem or a better way to do this?

  • I don't see why the system() command wouldn't be blocking - if you do system("sleep 30") it certainly blocks. Perhaps "strmin" is a wrapper which backgrounds the process? (that doesn't happen with the Cadence strmin as far as I know).

    If you look in the documentation, you can make xstInDoTranslate by doing:

    xstInSetField("virtualMemory" "true")
    xstInDoTranslate()

    There is also the xstInOnCompletion() callback you can defined which gets called when xstInDoTranslate has finished - so this could be an alternative way of achieving the same thing.

    Andrew

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