Re: Skill-C interface

Andrew Beckett wrote:
> You could use the Integrators Toolkit (ITK-DB). This allows you to write
> standalone applications which access the database from C, and there is some
> (limited) support for invoking SKILL from this.

After moving to OpenAccess (in future) will we still have Integrators 
Toolkit.
If so, why?

Thanks.

regards,
Suresh J

> However, I suspect this is not what you want. You can't (for example) link in
> some C code with DFII and call that from SKILL (we don't support that, for
> a variety of reasons - one being that it is rarely necessary). What you can do
> however is to write your computationally intensive tasks in a separate program,
> which you can then invoke using the ipc function calls (e.g. ipcBeginProcess),
> and then communicate to that external program either synchronously or
> asynchronously. This can be quite an effective means of doing things outside.
>
> What sort of intensive operations are you talking about? SKILL can be pretty
> quick provided that you do things correctly (it's byte-code compiled,
> and runs on a virtual machine).
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew.
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:20:13 -0700, sampath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi,
> > is there anyway that i can mix skill and c code,
> > I am looking for a way to do some runtime intensive operations in c and 
> > get the data into a skill code?
> > can somebody tell a solution?
> > sampath
>
>
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> Andrew Beckett
> Senior Technical Leader
> Custom IC Solutions
> Cadence Design Systems Ltd