Using nested scripts

In the file viacreator.il you'd need to define a function - typically done using procedure() (there are other ways, but this is probably the most natural).

procedure(viacreator(cv bBox)
  dbCreateRect(cv list("Via1" "drawing") bBox)
)

There's no requirement for the function name to match the file name, you can have multiple function definitions in each file, and it's a good idea to give them a unique prefix to avoid clashing with anybody else's functions - viacreator is not terribly unique, for example. So something like "CCFviacreator" (CCF being Cadence Community Forum; we recommend an uppercase prefix to avoid clashing with anything from Cadence).

Then you'd call it:

viacreator(pcCellView list(23.355:-14.46 24.945:14.4))

(you had a space after the function name in your call which isn't legal - also the list() structure wouldn't work because you have matching duplicate parentheses which will confuse matters).

For more detail, I suggest you read the SKILL Language User Guide or take one of the free online SKILL training classes at http://support.cadence.com (in the Learning section in the middle at the top).

Andrew

Thanks a lot for the reply. I would be grateful if you can provide me some info about the file location? How should I handle it?

The file location can be wherever you want, but you probably want to add a libInit.il file within the library directory that contains your PCell - this file is a SKILL file and should include a load("/path/to/your/code.il") to load it. That will then automatically load any functions used within your PCell at the time the library is first accessed. If you don't do that, nothing will auto-load your SKILL code.

Regards,

Andrew

The file location can be wherever you want, but you probably want to add a libInit.il file within the library directory that contains your PCell - this file is a SKILL file and should include a load("/path/to/your/code.il") to load it. That will then automatically load any functions used within your PCell at the time the library is first accessed. If you don't do that, nothing will auto-load your SKILL code.

Regards,

Andrew

I did not perfectly understood your suggestions. 

In my case I'm running Skill from the  folder A="/home/user/cadence/ST/XXX"

Inside this folder I have a subfolder SKILL and a sub-subfolder where I'd like to collect my functions. This will be B="/home/user/cadence/ST/XXX/Skill/MY_functions/"

What you say is that I should create a file named libInit.il  in my folder A. This file should have as many lines as my functions are. Each line should look like this: 

load("/home/user/cadence/ST/XXX/Skill/MY_functions//MY_viacreator.il")

I tested this and it does not work. I still get the underfined function error. 

As an alternative I was trying to change the SKILL path but this does not work either. 

if( not(car(getSkillPath)="/home/user/cadence/ST/XXX/Skill/MY_functions/")
setSkillPath(cons("/home/user/cadence/ST/XXX/Skill/MY_functions/" getSkillPath()))
); endif

ArbLouis said:

I did not perfectly understood your suggestions. 

I think this post got held up in moderation and based on your later dated reply you've solved it since? 

BTW, the code:

if( not(car(getSkillPath)="/home/user/cadence/ST/XXX/Skill/MY_functions/")
setSkillPath(cons("/home/user/cadence/ST/XXX/Skill/MY_functions/" getSkillPath()))
); endif

is not correct. getSkillPath() is a function, and your code will treat it as a variable (plus it would only work if it wasn't the first entry in the list. It would be better to do:

unless(member("/home/user/cadence/ST/XXX/Skill/MY_functions" getSkillPath())
  setSkillPath(cons("/home/user/cadence/ST/XXX/Skill/MY_functions" getSkillPath()))
)

Andrew