This training will increase your productivity when driving Synopsys tools that use Tcl using Design Compiler , IC Compiler , IC Compiler II and Prime Time. By mastering the most frequently used commands found in Tcl scripts , you will learn to apply the power of Tcl to automate your and customize tool reports.

This training covers on how to automate your scripts and customize design reports.  Its 6 weeks of training.

Day 1 & 2(Week 1)

Overview

Env Setup

Special Variables

Data Types

Variables

Operators

Decisions

Loops

Arrays, Strings, Lists, Dictionary

Day 3&4(Week 2)

Unit 1 Count Patterns in a String

Lab 1 Count cell types in a library report

Unit 2 Control Flow, Math Functions and Procedures

Lab 2 Create a command “metrics” to track runtime performance

Unit 3 Strings, Lists and Pattern Matching

Lab 3 Explore string and list commands

Unit 4 Practical Applications

Day 5&6(Week 3)

Unit 5 File I/O and Define Procedure Attributes

Lab 5 clean_log: Read and Write a Log File

Unit 6 Tcl Arrays , Dictionaries and Parse Procedure Arguments

Lab 6 clean_log: Add Non-Positional Arguments

Day 7&8(Week 4)

Unit 7 Tcl Rules

Lab 7 clean_log: Count Timing Reports

Unit 8 Avoid Common Scripting Mistakes

Lab 8 clean_log: Remove Duplicate Timing Reports

Unit 9 Collections: Avoid Common Missteps

Lab 9 Explore the Output and Result of Collection Commands

Unit 10 Collection Applications and Handle Ambiguous Arguments

Lab 10 Create and Manipulate Collections of Registers

Unit 11 Attributes: Filter and Sort Collections

Lab 11 Filter Collections of Cells

Unit 12 Use Timing Paths and Their Attributes

Lab 12 Sort and Index Collections of Timing Paths

Lab 13 Get cells and nets of a timing path

Week 5 & 6:

Execution on Projects and assignments

Projects:

1. Learn 6 rules of industry-standard Tcl Scripting language and avoid seven common mistakes.
2. Create Tcl procedures with command help and non-positional arguments.
3. Efficiently read and write data using I/O and file handling Commands.
4. Create and manipulate collections while avoiding missteps – Create procedures that handle ambiguous arguments.
5. Filer and sort collections using attributes- Research and find application attributes- Successfully use timing path design objects and seven common attributes – pass command line switches directly to commands inside a procedure(ie eval).
6. Report the percentage of flip-flops for each clock domain and accept ambiguous arguments that could be strings, lists or collections of various design objects.
7. Filter collections to find the worst negative slack to any instantiation of new library flip-flop.
8. Sort and index collections to report the single, worst timing report instead of one for every path group.
9. Automate your scripts to improve tool performance.