SKILL Language To Be Abandoned?

Someone mentioned in a recent thread that SKILL will be abandoned with
IC6.X Is this true? And if so, what extension language will be
taking its place?

Edward

 

No. This is completely and utterly wrong, as I stated in my response to that
post. There is no truth whatsover in this. I can't state this stronly enough.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

Sorry for misleading you. It's just my guess. Andrew had cleared it. You
may check his response to my post.

B.R.

Joffre

 

As Andrew stated, SKILL is here to stay. SKILL has over 50,000 basic
functions which provide you all the power that Cadence has to
integrate into and manipulate whatever database you desire, whether it
be CDB or OpenAccess, generally with the same SKILL programs for both
databases.

If, in the future, additional extension languages are standardized and
accepted, Virtuoso will most likely support those additional
formats ... in addition to SKILL (not as a replacement).

Bearing in mind the 50K basic capabilities that SKILL has today ...
(IMHO) it will be a looooooooooong time before any standard language
will have that kind of user power ... and, if it does, Cadence will
include it into the software so you'll get the best of both worlds.

Please separate the fluff from reality whenever anyone mentions any
new reputed extension-language "standards" as the purported benefits
are far less likely to be realized when you consider the tens of
thousands of actions possible in the current languages compared to
mere scores in proposed 'standards'.

Good luck,
John Gianni

 

Should we have a little "Who knows most SKILL functions by heart?".

 

I like it!

We could sponsor an Internet SKILL contest ... the audience would ask
a programatic question ... the panelists, including Andrew, would
answer with their best guess at three SKILL functions which accomplish
the task at hand ... the judges would confer with R&D and then hold up
their score cards, 1 through 10, rating the answers. The one who
knows the most SKILL functions by heart, wins!

Actually, one thing Gilles and I have been competing with is who has
the most extensive collection of SKILL Quick References (SQRs). His
museum-quality collection dates back to the originals from 1992 and
even includes a Japanese-version old-style SQR (drat ... I don't have
that one!). I used to determine the colors so there are red and green
and blue and gold, etc. ... now it's all up to Gilles; it's just not
fair!

Maybe others out there have extensive SQR collections? Pool yours
together and we could have a context to see which company can amass
the greatest collection! Those SQR's will be worth money in the
future, having made EDA history so far in your hands, solving the
toughest problems known to man!


John Gianni