copying schematic of many cells in one cell

Hello,

I am trying to write a skill code which can read a file containg list
of cell-names and create a cell which has schematic of all listed cell
placed in same view at a predefined distance. Any help will be
appreciated.

-Anil

 

I assume 'SKILL' is new to you. It is still farely new to me as well.
Skill is like the LISP programming language, although they have a C
like alternative syntax. I think though, you still need to understand
LISP to be able to write useful programs in SKILL, or at least
understand some of the basics of LISP. LISP was a little strange to me
because of it's heavy use of lists, and just seemed to be different. I
am getting more used to it now, and I am starting to program more
again, and LISP/SKILL seems pretty cool. Anyway, after reading up on
LISP for a bit, and getting some help here and there, and lots of
reading and thinking, and practicing when I have time, I am able to
automate some tasks. This newsgroup is very cool place to get some
tips to get you going, and/or sometimes when you get stuck, and need
some advice to get you unsnagged, and enable you to continue, and
sometimes you get quite a bit of information to help after you post a
question. Sometimes I am able to find the needed info by searching the
group for old posts. Anyway, find your Cadence installation directory,
and the pdf files, and use Acroread to search through them as well.

To get going, I would start with the SKILL LANGUAGE USER GUIDE. When I
needed to read a file from disk, I used that manual to find out about
"infile". I believe they have a section on "getting started" and
another section on "I/O". Anyway, hope this helps.

 

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Here is the book I got, that was pretty cool.

Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Paperback)
by David S. Touretzky