dump pcell code

[camelot]

Hi,
I've an old library (developed in Opus 4.3.4) that contain some
pcell created, I suppose, using a skill code. My question is if is
there a way to dump this code in order to modify the original behavior
of the cell.
Can you help me?

Camelot

 

[Jimka]

You can dump the code for the pcell, but that code might call other
functions
which might be read protected.

 

[camelot]

Thank you Jimka.... but how I can dump the code of the pcell?

Camelot

 

[jbrand]

This is how I dump the code:

cv = dbOpenCellViewByType("myLib" "myPcell" "layout" "" "a")
dbDumpPcDefinePcell(cv "./myPcell.il")

 

[Andrew Beckett]

On 29 Mar 2006 03:51:20 -0800, "camelot" <scosmo@tiscalinet.it> wrote:

Thank you Jimka.... but how I can dump the code of the pcell?

Camelot

If I remember rightly, dbWriteSkill() did not exist in 4.3.4, but was added in
4.4. Similarly dbDumpPcell() (or whatever the function is called) was added in a
later release.

So, the solution is to use the conversion Toolbox (Tools->Conversion Toolbox) in
a release between 4.4 and 4.4.6 to convert the 4.3.4 library to 4.4, and then
dump it using one of the above SKILL functions.

You'll want to look at the Conversion Guide in the documentation, and also the
documentation on dbWriteSkill (or the pcell dumping function - dbWriteSkill does
dump the pcell code, but the pcell-specific one writes it out in a form that can
be directly used to recreate the pcell).

Regards,

Andrew.