Commercial Products with Cadence

[Awqati]

Hello Fellow Engineers !

Does anyone know or can guess in what programming languages commercial
products/tools like the following or other example EDA tools were
written in ?

MentorGraphics - Calibre
Avanti/Synopsis - StarRCXT
Cadence - NeoCircuit
MunEDA - Wicked

Since there must be many interactions with the Cadence database, these
must have been written using skill ? Is this a valid argument ?
Otherwise they must be able to create/read proprietary cadence
database schematic/layout/symbol file/syntax/info !

If these are written in skill, why is it binary ? Do they compile it
or is it encrypted using the skill function ?

Finally, What about the "Graphical User Interfaces" ? Does anyone know
what language is used? I don’t think it is skill since they have many
colours and logos on their GUIs ? Am I correct in this assumption or
does skill provide a way of implementing complex/non-standard GUI
buttons ?

Many thanks in advance for your valuable time and support in my
questions.

Awqati

 

[Andrew Beckett]

Awqati wrote, on 02/11/09 11:05:

Hello Fellow Engineers !

Does anyone know or can guess in what programming languages commercial
products/tools like the following or other example EDA tools were
written in ?

MentorGraphics - Calibre
Avanti/Synopsis - StarRCXT
Cadence - NeoCircuit
MunEDA - Wicked

Since there must be many interactions with the Cadence database, these
must have been written using skill ? Is this a valid argument ?
Otherwise they must be able to create/read proprietary cadence
database schematic/layout/symbol file/syntax/info !

If these are written in skill, why is it binary ? Do they compile it
or is it encrypted using the skill function ?

Finally, What about the "Graphical User Interfaces" ? Does anyone know
what language is used? I don’t think it is skill since they have many
colours and logos on their GUIs ? Am I correct in this assumption or
does skill provide a way of implementing complex/non-standard GUI
buttons ?

Many thanks in advance for your valuable time and support in my
questions.

Awqati

Awqati,

All of these products will use some SKILL code in the interface to Cadence
Virtuoso. However, the main applications are not written in SKILL; I can't
comment what they are written in (I'm not sure why that matters).

SKILL does have the ability to create forms - and you can have coloured icons
and so on on the forms - but it's not as comprehensive as something implemented
using (say) Qt widgets natively or some other widget set.

Also, it's possible to read the database from C/C++ - either using (say) ITKdb
(Integrator's Toolkit) or directly using OpenAccess (in the most recent releases).

Why are you asking?

Regards,

Andrew.