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Lock icon appears when SKILL PCell is loaded

thiruvenkata

Hi All,

I noticed something new while creating PCells using SKILL. Whenever I load the SKILL PCell, a user lock icon appears in the view type section. The only way I can get rid of it is by opening and closing the supermaster cellview.

I am currently using the pcCellView variable in my PCell development. Is there an internal variable or a proper method to automatically close the PCell cellview after it opens, creates the required geometries, and finishes processing?

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Ah, I think you must have just deleted your second post (without the image) as my reply vanished as I was typing it.

    You can use:

    cv=pcDefinePCell(...
       ...
    )
    dbClose(cv)

    Using pcCellView won't help as this is the cellView of the subMaster (not the superMaster) and it's only set within the body of the pcDefinePCell.

    Andrew

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Ah, I think you must have just deleted your second post (without the image) as my reply vanished as I was typing it.

    You can use:

    cv=pcDefinePCell(...
       ...
    )
    dbClose(cv)

    Using pcCellView won't help as this is the cellView of the subMaster (not the superMaster) and it's only set within the body of the pcDefinePCell.

    Andrew

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  • thiruvenkata
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,
    Thanks for the insight. I referred to the article Introduction to SKILL PCell Programming. In that article, the PCell examples show the use of the pcCellView variable inside the body of pcDefinePCell, so I was following that approach. Are those examples incorrect?

    I am sorry for the inconvenience caused by deleting the earlier post.

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to thiruvenkata
    thiruvenkata said:
    Are those examples incorrect?

    No, those examples are correct. All the usage of pcCellView in that article is within the body of the pcDefinePCell. The body is the code that will be evaluated to generate each subMaster when a variant is created. Closing the variant makes no sense, and you can't access pcCellView outside of the pcDefinePCell.

  • thiruvenkata
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    So I assume the behaviour of getting lock icon after loading PCell code is normal and safe to ignore? 

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