Q: Possible to make softincluded cds.lib entries read only?

Hi,

as sole user in a multiproject environment, I often have to change
between designs. So far I do this by exiting and restarting icms
because I have bad experience with cds.lib and changing designs
elsewhere in directory tree which I didn't want to. Making the files
read only is not an option as I change between the designs for editing
fairly often.

I am looking for a function to say that "in current schematic session,
all files that are included with SOFTINCLUDE are read only, and cannot
be forced write by the make editable button, even if the file is owned
by me."

It will help me if I can write a skill routine, which inspects the
cds.lib and set the properties based on what it find, no need to
change Cadence Composer ....

If somebody have some hooks for me to start with, I can go on from
there by myself.

--
Svenn

 

[Andrew Beckett]

Svenn,

You might want to take a look at an application note I wrote some time
ago on dd triggers - I give an example which shows how to implement a
simple access-control-list mechanism - you could use a similar technique to
disallow edit access to certain libraries.

http://sourcelink.cadence.com/docs/files/FFF/199/triggers.html

There isn't any special builtin syntax for including a readonly library,
but you can get around it with the above.

Regards,

Andrew.

On 27 Nov 2003 05:03:05 -0800, svenn.are@bjerkem.de wrote:

Hi,

as sole user in a multiproject environment, I often have to change
between designs. So far I do this by exiting and restarting icms
because I have bad experience with cds.lib and changing designs
elsewhere in directory tree which I didn't want to. Making the files
read only is not an option as I change between the designs for editing
fairly often.

I am looking for a function to say that "in current schematic session,
all files that are included with SOFTINCLUDE are read only, and cannot
be forced write by the make editable button, even if the file is owned
by me."

It will help me if I can write a skill routine, which inspects the
cds.lib and set the properties based on what it find, no need to
change Cadence Composer ....

If somebody have some hooks for me to start with, I can go on from
there by myself.

--
Andrew Beckett
Senior Technical Leader
Custom IC Solutions
Cadence Design Systems Ltd