Artist Calculator expressions <--> Ocean

[Sylvio Triebel]

Hello,

I'm curious if there is a functionality to transform
expressions from Calculator into Ocean functions.
I need this for a plot tool which displays results from ocean scrips
which where distributed per lsf...

e.g. VT("net") ---&gt; v("net" ?result "tran" ?resultsDir "...")

Our previous solution was to use the (undocumented) resultsdir argument to the
calculator functions:
VT("net") --&gt; VT("net" dir)

However, even if we got this solution from a Cadence Consultant... We found
some strange indetermined behavior. The plots of the same pdf data have sometimes
not the same domain as the corresponding simulation and even worse,
they change if you run just a local simulation (which does not change the psf data)

With the Ocean functions those strange effects have not been observed yet.

I could imagine two solutions:

1) there must be some initialization which makes the calculator functions really usable.

2) transforming ALL special functions from the Calculator into Ocean
But is it really just IT, VT, VDC... VN() VN2() ....
It seems to me that I have always to extend the plot tool if there are new
Calculator functions - if there is no Cadence script for that task.

I would be glad, if anybody could advice which way is better.

Regards,
Sylvio