getting started with skill

Hi,
I am tring to getting started with skill but I can no do even the easy
things like lauch a program from the CIW. How can I do that?, I was wasting
my time in the long cadence help and I can not find How can I launch a skill
file from their enviroment.
Thank is advance.
Felipe Osorio

 

Juan> Hi, I am tring to getting started with skill but I can no do
Juan> even the easy things like lauch a program from the CIW. How
Juan> can I do that?, I was wasting my time in the long cadence help
Juan> and I can not find How can I launch a skill file from their
Juan> enviroment. Thank is advance. Felipe Osorio

load("filename")

Satya

 

Also, read the SKILL Language User Guide - that's the best place to start.

It's written in the style of a book on programming, and introduces you gradually
to the concepts in the language.

Andrew.

 

Juan:
Create some skill file:

printf("hw()\n")

procedure(hw()
prog(()

printf("hello world!\n")

return(t)
)
)

In the CIW load the skill file with load("yourpath/skillfile.il").

If you loaded the above, type hw() and you should get hello world!

 

I am tring to getting started with skill but I can no do even the easy
Do a search on http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.cad.cadence for
the exact words (minus the quotes) "How to run a SKILL function."

You should find a ton of answers to this very same question, probably
the best being the one from "Date: 2000/05/05" titled what you're asking
"Newbie Q: How to run a SKILL function?".

Make sure you name your functions & files with capital letters
(e.g., MyAddPort(), and MyAddPort.il) so you can tell, at a glance,
which is your function/file vs which is from Cadence (after a few tens
of thousands of lines of SKILL code, you'll see why this is good advice).

Also call Cadence and ask them to repost their application library of
SKILL programs. They create them every day and every time I ask, they quickly
send me a complete program which does almost exactly what I want, so they must
have thousands of them archived in their search engines. I know I can find
them on Sourcelink by looking up keywords, but, it's so very much easier
if they are published as a complete library (undocumented, unsupported, of
course). They MUST have these things internally or they'd never be so
responsive when I ask. Some times they send the SKILL programs to me while
I'm still on the phone with them (e.g., SKILL history programs, creation
of shape pins, schematic re-referencers galore, layout compactors, etc.).

Good luck!
SS

 

Also consider a SKILL class.

I think these are online so you don't even have to leave your desktop.
Go to http://www.cadence.com/education for more details.

I'm looking at the TOC of the "SKILL Language Programming" training
class, which covers everything you are asking (and more).