Re: Replacing Label Text with SKILL

John Gianni wrote:

LindaM wrote:
John or Bernd,
Please post this SKILL code on the Cadence user community forum at

http://www.cdnusers.org/Forums/tabid/52/view/topics/forumid/62/Default.aspx.

Hi Linda,

I posted five of the aforementioned example SKILL programs which modify
label & pin text to the suggested cdnusers.org "Custom IC > Shared
code - SKILL" forum.


Hi Linda, Hi John,
with all respect for the effort put into the work, I do not think that a
bulletin board service like the one used on cdnusers is appropriate to
capture the current knowledge of the cadence community. Lately a concept
called Wiki has emerged to enable a community to do collaborative editing
of knowledge in written form. Currently Wikipedia at www.wikipedia.org is
the best example of such a working common knowledge collection.

In my opinion, MediaWiki (the engine that drives Wikipedia) should also be
installed on cdsnuser in order to consolidate the knowledge of the
community in a format where the content can be edited at any point by any
user.

The nature of a buletin board system, like the one used currently on
cdnusers, is not to capture knowledge, but to capture opinions of
individuals in a discussion chain, much like USENET already has provided
for years. The search function of such a bulletin board system is not an
argument to use it as most useres do not know how to search, or to select
the proper keywords for the search and then choose to ask a questioin that
has already been asked many times before. (This is also a weakness of
USENET, or _any_ system that has to do with user support.) USENET is in my
opinion still superior to any bulletin board system as it is focused on
textual content, as bulletin board systems put focus on looking good.

Most bulletin boards systems do not allow the user to edit content written
by other users. This make it difficult to correct SKILL code posted to the
board without creating a copy. This limitation is also present in USENET
articles, but proper threading of articles can keep the level of confusion
a bit lower.

I guess that few cadence users have had much contact with a Wiki. In my
organisation there are very few who has discovered how much easier it is to
keep common knowledge up to date with a wiki than with _any_ other database
system. It seem to take longer time to accept that content can be edited by
anyone, and that the content do not belong to anyone but the community.

If I had had space myself to start a CadenceWiki I would have done that a
long time ago. The problem is to find a suitable ISP or organisation to
host the wiki. Now, cdnusers seem to have space for a bulletin board
system, and I hope you have time and space to install a MediaWiki dedicated
to capturing common knowledge on use of Cadence EDA tools.

Kind regards,
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Svenn
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