Command to check and save a schematic

Prasad,

You should not get a popup with the errors and warnings when you do schCheck() - they should appear in the CIW. Can you share what the popup looks like? 

Which IC sub-version are you using? (getVersion(t) will return this)

Andrew

Hi Andrew, 

Thanks for your reply. Here is the snapshot of the popup. I have VDD_ANA2 in schematic and VDD_ANA in symbol. So, it's showing a popup with an error message to update the symbol. 

And I'm using "sub-version  IC6.1.8-64b.500.17 ". 

Thanks,

Prasad

Hi Prasad,

I'm pretty certain that is not a standard part of Virtuoso that is giving that popup. I checked in the code and can't find it (possible that the wording has changed, but I don't recall ever seeing it, and certainly the wording doesn't look like how such a question would be phrased in our software). My guess is that it's done as part of a custom pre- or post- check trigger.

Can you check what these two functions return? (type the functions in bold)

schGetPostCheckTriggers()
("_schCICheck" "_schAMSPostCheck" "_schOIPostCheck" "_schRunCustomChecks")
schGetPreCheckTriggers()
("_ciSchPreCheckTriggerForConNotes")

I've shown the standard output that you normally get, so if there are other functions they may be local customisation. You may need to contact the creator of those functions to found out how best to disable the popup.

Andrew

Hi Andrew, 

Yes, there are some custom functions that are being triggered. I'll check with my CAD team and see if there is a way to disable the popups. 

Thanks,

Prasad

Hi Andrew, 

I found that there is a procedure that was added as part of Check and Save procedure that's showing the error window. If that particular procedure is disabled, the pop-up window won't show up. 

Do we have a command to skip running a particular procedure using skill? I want to enable the procedure again after my script execution is done, so that future check and saves will see this procedure running. 

Thanks,
Prasad

Hi Prasad.

If you've identified the trigger with the schGetPostCheckTriggers()/schGetPreCheckTriggers() then you can do the following:

schUnregPostCheckTrigger('funcName)
; do your work
schRegPostCheckTrigger('funcName)

There are equivalent functions with "Pre" instead of "Post" if was a pre-check trigger you were doing this with.

For safety, you might want to do it this way:

unwindProtect(
  {
    schUnregPostCheckTrigger('funcName)
    ; do your work
  }
  schRegPostCheckTrigger('funcName)
)

that means that it will always re-register the trigger even if there's an error somewhere in your code or it gets interrupted by ctrl-C (say).

Regards,

Andrew