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Ananth's SKILL helper compilation - Welcome!

The 5-10 minutes you spend on this README is well worth it. YouTube video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raTVgloGCFg

What is the SKILL repository?

It is a collection of utilities and settings that boost productivity when using Cadence tools like the Virtuoso schematic editor. Mostly, the code has been created using the command logs that show up in the CIW (if not filtered) or the CDS.log. The gems - the difficult ones - depended heavily on help from Cadence AEs - thanks Sameer G, Praveena V, Vikas, Bhupendra, Lalit, Amit Sanadhya, Parul, Sudip, Pragati, Subrata, Ankush, Likesh and others I missed.. The utilities are accessed through keyboard shortcuts (bindkeys in Cadence parlance). The settings are mostly the key-bindings (utilities to key-combo) and other useful things like disabling the blinding (IC6) default grid (i.e., make it similar to IC5) and (MUST) disabling the Menu-Access restrictions on the ALT and CTRL key (else, you couldn't use ALT-x for what you want but for what Cadence thinks you should want :) (ui enableMenuShortcuts boolean nil)

What does it contain?

CCS/ # code obtained from Cadence AEs through support requests
dotfiles/ # the .cdsenv and .cdsinit files with the important settings. View and comment out the ones you don't plan on using. The comments in the files should help. The load bindkeys.il in the .cdsinit is what loads the bindkey utilities
guide.PDF # cheat sheet (WIP)
guide.xlsx # source for the cheat-sheet so you can customize
demos/ # some demos captured using Justin Frankel's LICEcap (WIP)
utils/ # the various utilities (.il files)
bindkeys.il the loader

How do I use it?

Find out how your in-house setup loads the user's custom settings. Usually it's through a .cdsinit file in the user's home directory. Sometimes, it's the .cdsinit-user. Sometimes, it's neither of those, but a certain file in the launch directory (in which case, you put a load "~/.cdsinit" in that file :)
Download the repo (extract if necessary) and move it to your unix home directory
Replace /home/USERNAME with /home/<YOUR USERNAME> in the bindkeys.il and .cdsinit and .cdsenv
"Install" the utilities by using the .cdsinit and .cdsenv as is (or the useful lines from them) -- importantly, loading the bindkeys.il file in the SKILL directory
Look at the "Value" column in the cheat-sheet for the high-value bindkeys that can boost your productivity immediately :)

Demos of the high-value shortcuts (TBD)

wire thickness on-the-fly editing with ALT+scrollwheel
label bussing with ALT+scrollwheel
bus transposing with ALT+SHIFT+scrollwheel
pin spacing with CTRL+NumKeyPad+/-
pin name size with CTRL+Arrow
text size with SHIFT+Arrow
view name capture with CTRL+SHIFT+s
path capture with CTRL+ALT+D (unless text selected, in which case you go-to-path indicated by text)
grid toggle with CTRL+F10
edit multiple with ALT+SHIFT+Q very useful

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Code Organization

I've started reorganizing the repo into a more standard organization with the following initial folders,

Folders

docs: Documentation
src: Source code
dotfiles: Example Cadence initialization dot files (.cdsinit, .cdsenv, etc)

I propose organizing the source code in src/ according to function. Here is what I have to start, we'll add more as necessary.

Functions

schematic
layout
navigation
viva
cliosoft

Code will be migrated from the existing folders and files and placed into one of the functions above.

Items Migrated

Add high-value Bind keys:

Not quite High Value:

label bussing with ALT+scrollwheel
bus transposing with ALT+SHIFT+scrollwheel
path capture with CTRL+ALT+D (unless text selected, in which case you go-to-path indicated by text)

Initialization

Here's how I've done my initialization in the past.

All initialization scripts should end in *.init.il (SKILL) or *.init.ils (SKILL++)
An initialization script, SKILL.init.il at the root of the repo will be called to initialize the library.
- Loads each of the source function scripts
Each source function folder will have its own initialization script which loads all the files for that function.

Here's an example of the root initialization script:

/*****************************************************************
 *                                                               *
 *                  SKILL library initialization                 *
 *                                                               *
 *****************************************************************/

printf("Loading SKILL library\n")

let((file_path dir_path files)
	; file and directory paths of this file
	file_path = simplifyFilename(get_filename(piport))
	dir_path = strcat("/" buildString(reverse(cdr(reverse(parseString(file_path "/")))) "/"))

	files = list(
	"cliosoft/Clio.init.il"
	"navigation/Nav.init.il"
	"schematic/Sch.init.il"
	)

	foreach(file files
		loadi(strcat(dir_path "/src/" file))
	)
)

printf("Done loading SKILL library\n")

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skill's Introduction

Ananth's SKILL helper compilation - Welcome!

What is the SKILL repository?

What does it contain?

How do I use it?

Demos of the high-value shortcuts (TBD)

skill's People

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skill's Issues

Code Organization

Folders

Functions

Items Migrated

Initialization

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