Creating GDS Files for Calibre

[Guenther Sohler]

Hallo Group,

When I select "export from layout viewer",
calibre interactive automatically uses pipo to create a gds file from the
cadence database. However, Can I change the settings in the strmout keys
of this procedure ? Or can I replace the built in stream out procedure by
my own one ?

 

[S. Badel]

Hallo Group,

When I select "export from layout viewer",
calibre interactive automatically uses pipo to create a gds file from the
cadence database. However, Can I change the settings in the strmout keys
of this procedure ? Or can I replace the built in stream out procedure by
my own one ?

I believe it uses the current settings as is (changes only the lib/cell/view). So you can simply set
it up from the export->stream form or with SKILL beforehand.


Stéphane

 

[Riad KACED]

Dear Guenther,

Calibre Interactive invokes pipo stream with a template file defined
by an environment variable known as:
MGC_CALIBRE_EXPORT_LAYOUT_TEMPLATE_FILE

You can either play around this variable to set up a custom template
file or do it interactively from your VLE->Calibre->Setup->Layout
Export.
I won't get into more details for now since the whole lot is very well
documented in the MGC's CalibreŽ Interactive™ User’s Manual. Please
take a look at the following section: Using Calibre Interactive with
Cadence Virtuoso (It's in page 263 in my 2008.1 version). I could have
made a copy/paste of the information you're looking for but I prefer
you to get it yourself. I don't want to take any chance disclosing
bits from the MGC doc in this forum anyway :-( One has to keep
professional ;-)

Cheers,
Riad.

 

[Guenther Sohler]

Thank you for the hint
it works perfectly now. I learned a lot