Commercial Products with Cadence

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

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.