converting standard cell library from cbd to OA on newer 6.1.8 setups

'While converting them was probably done with cdb2oa from within the GUI' i.e., done before in my previous institute.

I don't think there's a lot of choice. You don't need to use the UI - you could use the cdb2oa command-line interface, but you still need to install a release that contains it.

What problems are you having with installing IC618?

Andrew

Well,

For one, my system is Oracle linux 8 (EL8 essentially). My setup now is 618.29, and I'm unsure if the base release (618.00) supports EL8

Second, I tired to install 618.00. I get unsupported OS warnings. Upon configuration of the installation, I used the OA version that came with IC618.00, and get an error. I also tried to use OA that came with 618.29. Then, IC618 window loads, and crashes with segmentation fault.

In short - I suspect 618.00 doesn't support EL8..

Update: I ended up just installing IC618.00 on a virtual machine.

Ran cdb2oa from guy. Seems to run and produce OA views. A couple of questions:

1. The 'path to cds.lib file' is the path to a file that points to the .cdb views, correct?

2. To make the tool create the library in a clean directory, I chose 'Set library options'-> Fill path under 'OA library path'. Is this OK?

3. Process ends fine with the following warning:

As far as I understand the translator has encountered a single issue with one view inside one cell, and skipped conversion. Is this correct?

Upon checking a couple of OA views they seem fine and pass LVS with Assura on IC618.29

Thanks,

Matan

Matan,

In general, you should run virtuoso (or run "cdb2oa" if using from the command line) in the directory where you want to create the OA libraries. Do not run in the place where you have existing CDB libraries or an existing cds.lib with the paths to CDB libraries.

Then you specify the "path to cds.lib" file (or -cdslibpath argument) to point to an existing cds.lib file (not in the working directory) which contains the references to the libraries you wish to convert. You appear to have pointed to an individual cdb file (which is NOT what is expected).

You can tell it once you've done this, which of the libraries you wish to convert and in which order.

Having installed IC618, you could even go as far as reading the documentation on this. You could search for it in cdnshelp, or even press the "Help" button on the form that appears when you invoke the translator from the conversion toolbox. Or just open <ICinstDir>/doc/cdb2oa/cdb2oa.pdf 

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

I must have not explained myself well.

I did exactly what you described. I ran virtuoso from my OA environment directory, and referenced a cds.lib file that points to my cdb standard cell library (which has 855 cells in it as shown in the CIW summary screenshot). The only difference is that I set an OA output destination directory so as not to spam my icfb run directory with 100s of cells.

As far as I can say conversion went fine except for a single warning that regard to a single cell, and was wondering if you knew what it meant.

Also, thank you for the pointer to the .pdf help file. I'm often having trouble locating information inside virtuoso help.

Thank you and sorry for the long post.

Matan