Send Skill command to CIW and get results back?

Hello All,

I would like to send skill expressions from my perl script to CIW
and get the results back. For example, i would like to get all
libraries (ddGetLibList() command) in my Cadence session and get the
skill list that i can use in my Perl script.

I can have CIW initiate a ipcSkillProcess but I want Perl script to
initiate the command.

Does anyone know how to do that? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[KB.How]

Hi Asif,

As what my understanding, you are trying to get the return value of
CIW from perl script, so that you are able to grab the data/
information.

You can have a try on this (my answer in shell script):

a. In your shell script, create a temporary file
TmpFile="/tmp/SkillCode.txt"
TmpOut="/tmp/CiwOut.txt"

b. Then write the skill command into the temporary file
echo "system(sprintf(nil \"echo %L > %s\" ddGetLibList() \
$TmpOut\" ))" >> $TmpFile
echo "exit()" >> $TmpFIle

c. Invoke virtuoso nograph in shell script to get the return
virtuoso -nograph -replay $TmpFile > /dev/null

d. Get the result from TmpOut file
LibList=`head -1 $TmpOut`

Hoping this helps. =D


Regards,
How

 

[Andrew Beckett]

KB.How wrote, on 05/22/09 01:33:

Hi Asif,

As what my understanding, you are trying to get the return value of
CIW from perl script, so that you are able to grab the data/
information.

You can have a try on this (my answer in shell script):

a. In your shell script, create a temporary file
TmpFile="/tmp/SkillCode.txt"
TmpOut="/tmp/CiwOut.txt"

b. Then write the skill command into the temporary file
echo "system(sprintf(nil \"echo %L > %s\" ddGetLibList() \
$TmpOut\" ))" >> $TmpFile
echo "exit()" >> $TmpFIle

c. Invoke virtuoso nograph in shell script to get the return
virtuoso -nograph -replay $TmpFile > /dev/null

d. Get the result from TmpOut file
LibList=`head -1 $TmpOut`

Hoping this helps. =D


Regards,
How

I also posted (some time ago) a Tcl example of doing something like this:

http://tinyurl.com/ooksnd

This post mentions a slight typo in the original:

http://tinyurl.com/p2kafs

Regards,

Andrew.