skill compiler

Hi,

Is there any complier it execute skill program or sytax cheker without
using icfb CIW .
In otherwords without cadence.

Thanks,

 

SKILL is a Cadence proprietary scripting language. If you want to write
in SKILL, but run it outside Cadence tools, you can always write in
Lisp, which is very similar to SKILL. Or perhaps I should say that SKILL
is very similar to Lisp.

 

SKILL is an interpreted progamming language, like Perl or Tcl,
and needs an interpreter which is the Cadence Design Framework II
Command Interpreter Window (CIW).

Oqute form Wikipedia

For interpreted programming language refer to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreted_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_(computing)

Bernd

 

There is a standalone interpreter named skill. Obviously you don't have
all the dfII functions in it.

Yours,

 

And there's another useful executable called "dbAccess" which gives you core
SKILL plus db, dd, tech, cdf functions (i..e anything that is "pcell safe").

Note that SKILL is actually byte-code compiled - so it's not strictly
interpreted or compiled. It compiles the code to a virtual machine, and then
executes instructions in this virtual machine. So it's somewhere between an
interpreter and a compiler (the virtual machine is effectively an interpreter).

Regards,

Andrew.