Re: Skill-C interface

1. Compatibility - there will be existing code; we can hardly expect customers
    to completely rewrite their code.
2. Simplicity - the CDBA interface is probably simpler than the OA interface.

But it would be mainly issue 1 above. I'd expect new applications to be written
using the OA API.

Andrew.

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:30:20 +0530, suresh j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>
>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
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Andrew Beckett
>> Senior Technical Leader
>> Custom IC Solutions
>> Cadence Design Systems Ltd

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Andrew Beckett
Senior Technical Leader
Custom IC Solutions
Cadence Design Systems Ltd