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Virtuoso Layout Suite SKILL Reference
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023

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Connectivity Driven Editing Functions

This topic provides a list of Cadence® SKILL functions associated with Virtuoso® Layout Suite layout editor.

It includes functions to let you define bindkeys that correspond to menu commands. These functions are designed for use only with bindkeys and are not recommended as a general programmer interface. It also includes functions to manipulate extraction layers and no overlap layers in the virtuosoDefaultExtractorSetup constraint group of the technology file.

Only the functions listed here are supported for public use. All other functions, regardless of their name or prefix, and undocumented aspects of the functions described below, are private and are subject to change at any time.

abGetAssistant

abGetCurrentIncompleteNetFilter

abHiFindMarker

abSetIncompleteNetFilter

bndAddObjectsBinding

bndGetBoundObjects

bndGetSiblingBoundObjects

bndRegRemoveDeviceGetSurvivingNet

bndRemoveObjectBinding

bndRemoveTermBindingByName

bndReplaceInstsBindingByName

bndReplaceObjectsBinding

bndReplaceTermsBindingByName

bndSetInstsBindingByName

bndSetObjectsBinding

bndSetTermsBindingByName

bndUnregRemoveDeviceGetSurvivingNet

dbSetSoftConnectTermConnectToLayer

dbSetSoftConnectTermPinlessLayer

dbSetTermSoftConnect

lceAddSimpleStopLayers

lceClearLogicalConn

lceDestroyVoidShapes

lceExtract

lceExtractArea

lceExtractAreas

lceExtractNet

lceExtractNets

lceExtractUnverifiedAreas

lceGetExtractLayers

lceGetFracturedShapes

lceGetFracturedShapesFromNet

lceGetIncompleteNets

lceGetIncompleteNetMarkers

lceGetNetNamesFromArea

lceGetMarkerConnectivitySources

lceGetOption

lceGetShortMarkers

lceHiExtract

lceHierExtract

lceIsExtractLayer

lceIsShapeTrimmed

lcePrintConstraintGroupWarnings

lcePrintExtractLayers

lcePrintExtractVias

lcePrintTechDiagnostics

lceRegenerateVoidShapes

lceSetOption

lceShortLocatorChaseAndSave

lceShortLocatorRaiseForm

lntAddTrace

lntClearNeighbors

lntComputeNeighbors

lntContSteps

lntGetAllTraces

lntGetCurrentStep

lntGetSavedViewNames

lntGetTailVal

lntGetTraceInfo

lntHideNeighbors

lntHiEditTrace

lntHiNetTracer

lntIsNeighborsVisible

lntIsStepTrace

lntNeighbors

lntNextStep

lntNextToSetStep

lntPrevStep

lntRemoveAll

lntRemoveAllTraces

lntRemoveTrace

lntSaveTraces

lntSetCurrentStep

lntSetTailVal

lntSetTraceColor

lntSetTraceVisibility

lntShowHideAllTraces

lntShowNeighbors

lxAbutGetNeighbors

lxChain

lxChainAnchor2D

lxCheck

lxCheckAgainstSource

lxCheckAndUpdate

lxCheckAndUpdateRegister

lxCheckAndUpdateRemove

lxCheckAndUpdateSet

lxCheckLib

lxCloneGetEquivalentFigs

lxCmdOptions

lxCmdShiftOptions

lxComputeViaParams

lxConvertSlotToPolygon

lxCreateBndFile

lxCreateGroupArray

lxCreateSynchronousClonesFromFigGroups

lxDeleteSchematicDummies

lxDeleteSynchronousCloneFamily

lxFold

lxGenerateFinish

lxGenerateStart

lxGenFromSource

lxGetAvailablePinLPPs

lxGetConnRef

lxGetEditedSyncClone

lxGetGroupArrayParams

lxGetLXInfo

lxGetPermutedInstTerms

lxGetPinNets

lxGetSource

lxGetSyncClone

lxGetValidViaDefs

lxGroupArrayCreatePreset

lxHierCheck

lxHierCheckAgainstSource

lxHierUpdateComponentsAndNets

lxHierUpdateSchematicParameters

lxHiAbout

lxHiAlign

lxHiBackAnnotateAllActiveDummies

lxHiBackAnnotateSelectedDummies

lxHiChain

lxHiCheck

lxHiCheckAllTerminalInterfaces

lxHiClone

lxHiConnectInstPin

lxHiConvertMosaicToGroupArray

lxHiCreateGroup

lxHiCreateInstFromSch

lxHiCreateMPP

lxHiCreatePinsFromLabels

lxHiDefineDeviceCorr

lxHiEditComponentTypes

lxHiGenerateSelectedFromLayout

lxHiIChain

lxHiLockSelected

lxHiMoveAutomatically

lxHiProbe

lxHiReInitDesign

lxHiSetCorrespondence

lxHiSetOptions

lxHiStack

lxHiSwap

lxHiSwapComps

lxHiUnlockSelected

lxHiUpdateAllTerminalInterfaces

lxHiUpdateBinding

lxHiUpdateBusTerminals

lxHiUpdateCellViewPair

lxHiUpdateComponentsAndNets

lxHiUpdateLayoutConstraints

lxHiUpdateLayoutParameters

lxHiUpdateSchematicParameters

lxHiUpdateTerminalNetExpressions

lxHiVerifyDesign

lxIsGroupArray

lxIsGroupArrayEnabled

lxIsGroupArrayLocked

lxIsGroupArrayRegular

lxHiPRBoundaryInteriorHalo

lxLaunchLayoutEXL

lxLaunchLayoutXL

lxLaunchLayoutMXL

lxMakeDummy

lxMakePrBoundarySelectable

lxMakePrBoundaryUnselectable

lxPermPermutePins

lxProbeRemoveAll

lxRegMasterDiffName

lxRegPostUpdateComponentsAndNets

lxRegPrePosition

lxRegPreUpdateComponentsAndNets

lxRemoveSynchronousCloneFromFamily

lxRunCmdInVXL

lxRunCmdInXL

lxSelectedDeleteNetRouting

lxSelectedExtendChain

lxSelectedExtendExpanded

lxSelectedExtendSchematic

lxSelectedExtendSelection

lxSelectedLock

lxSelectedLockNet

lxSelectedRemoveIgnore

lxSelectedRoute

lxSelectedRouteNet

lxSelectedSelectAttachedGlobalNets

lxSelectedSelectAttachedNets

lxSelectedSelectAttachedSignalNets

lxSelectedSelectExternalGlobalNets

lxSelectedSelectExternalNets

lxSelectedSelectExternalSignalNets

lxSelectedSelectInternalGlobalNets

lxSelectedSelectInternalNets

lxSelectedSelectInternalSignalNets

lxSelectedSelectNetsShapes

lxSelectedUnlock

lxSelectedUnlockNet

lxSelectedUpdateFromSource

lxSelectedUpdateIgnore

lxSelectSynchronousFamily

lxSetAreaEstimationOptions

lxSetBoundaryOptions

lxSetConfigRef

lxSetConnRef

lxSetGenerateOptions

lxSetGroupArrayLocked

lxSetGroupArrayRegular

lxSetNetPinSpecs

lxSetPreserveFloorplanningOptions

lxSetSchematicDriven

lxSetUpdateOptions

lxShapeSlotting

lxShowCommonIncompleteNetsForSelectedInsts

lxShowHideIncompleteNets

lxToggleLocalAbutment

lxToggleShowIncompleteNets

lxUnfold

lxUnregMasterDiffName

lxUnregPrePosition

lxUnSlotVia

lxUpdateAllPhysBinding

lxUpdateBinding

lxUpdateComponentsAndNets

lxUpdateComponentsAndNetsFinish

lxUpdateComponentsAndNetsStart

lxUpdateGroupArrayParams

lxUpdatePhysBinding

lxUpdatePlacementStatus

lxUpdateSchematicParameters

lxVerifyCloneFamily

nclRunConstraintValidation

nclToggleCAEMode

soiEnableDrcDfm

techGetLxExtractLayers

techGetLxNoOverlapLayers

techIsLxExtractLayer

techIsLxNoOverlapLayer

techSetLxExtractLayer

techSetLxExtractLayers

techSetLxNoOverlapLayer

techSetLxNoOverlapLayers

tpoIsLayoutXL

tpoIsLayoutEXL


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