Common Power Format Language Reference -- Preface

Common Power Format Language Reference, Version 2.0

Preface

About This Manual

Additional References

Reporting Problems or Errors in Manuals

Customer Support

Documentation Conventions

About This Manual

This manual is a language reference for users of the Common Power Format (CPF). This manual explains concepts introduced by CPF, describes the format specifics, and gives a detailed explanation for each CPF command.

Additional References

For information on what is new or changed in CPF version 1.1 see What's New in Common Power Format.

For more information on the usage of CPF, refer to the Common Power Format User Guide.

The following sources provide more infromation on Tcl:

http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl

TclTutor, a computer aided instruction package for learning the Tcl language:
http://www.msen.com/~clif/TclTutor.html.

TCL Reference, Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, John K. Ousterhout, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

Reporting Problems or Errors in Manuals

The Cadence^® Help online documentation, lets you view, search, and print Cadence product documentation. You can access Cadence Help by typing cdnshelp from your Cadence tools hierarchy.

Contact Cadence Customer Support to file a CCR if you find:

An error in the manual

An omission of information in a manual

A problem using the Cadence Help documentation system

Customer Support

Cadence offers live and online support, as well as customer education and training programs.

Cadence Online Support

The Cadence^®online support website offers answers to your most common technical questions. It lets you search more than 40,000 FAQs, notifications, software updates, and technical solutions documents that give you step-by-step instructions on how to solve known problems. It also gives you product-specific e-mail notifications, software updates, case tracking, up-to-date release information, full site search capabilities, software update ordering, and much more.

For more information on Cadence online support go to:

http://support.cadence.com

Other Support Offerings

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University software program support--Provides you with the latest information to answer your technical questions.

For more information on these support offerings go to:

http://www.cadence.com/support

Documentation Conventions

To aid the readers understanding, a consistent formatting style has been used throughout this manual.

The list below describes the syntax conventions used for the CPF constraints.

literal

Nonitalic words indicate keywords that you must type literally. These keywords represent command or option names. An option always contains a leading minus character (-).

arguments and options

Words in italics indicate user-defined arguments or options for which you must substitute a value. A value can be one of the following:

string

integer or floating number

object(s) reference

a list of values

|

Vertical bars (OR-bars) separate possible choices for a single argument.

[ ]

Brackets denote options. When used with OR-bars, they enclose a list of choices from which you can choose one.

{ }

Braces denote arguments and are used to indicate that a choice is required from the list of arguments separated by OR-bars. You must choose one from the list

{ argument1 | argument2 | argument3 }

{ }

Braces in bold-face type must be entered literally.

...

Three dots (...) indicate that you can repeat the previous argument. If the three dots are used with brackets (that is, [argument]...), you can specify zero or more arguments. If the three dots are used without brackets (argument...), you must specify at least one argument, but can specify more.

#

The pound sign precedes comments.

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`literal`	Nonitalic words indicate keywords that you must type literally. These keywords represent command or option names. An option always contains a leading minus character (-).
`arguments and options`	Words in italics indicate user-defined arguments or options for which you must substitute a value. A value can be one of the following:
	string
	integer or floating number
	object(s) reference
	a list of values
\|	Vertical bars (OR-bars) separate possible choices for a single argument.
[ ]	Brackets denote options. When used with OR-bars, they enclose a list of choices from which you can choose one.
{ }	Braces denote arguments and are used to indicate that a choice is required from the list of arguments separated by OR-bars. You must choose one from the list
	`{ argument1 \| argument2 \| argument3 }`
`{` `}`	Braces in bold-face type must be entered literally.
...	Three dots (...) indicate that you can repeat the previous argument. If the three dots are used with brackets (that is, [`argument`]`...`), you can specify zero or more arguments. If the three dots are used without brackets (`argument`...), you must specify at least one argument, but can specify more.
`#`	The pound sign precedes comments.