I'm trying to figure out two Cadence environment issues. I have found what I believe are the correct environment variables but the tool doesn't seem to be responding to them.
First issue: scalar expressions are being plotted in Maestro instead of evaluating a number. I've chosen the stability summary 'Add to Outputs' option and I'm used to this just evaluating a number for phase margin and unity gain frequency but for some reason in the environment I'm working in this data evaluates to a wave. I have opened the 'Plot Options' window and unchecked the 'Plot Scalar Expressions' option but it still evaluates as a wave and gets plotted as a figure instead of a number. I've also tried adding the following expressions to my .cdsinit and .cdsenv files but neither works:
envSetVal( "adexl.plotting" "plotScalarExpressions" 'boolean nil )
adexl.plotting plotScalarExpressions boolean nil
Additionally, I also tried setting the plotScalarsAsLine variable to nil although it does not look like this is the variable I'm interested in from the support manual description.
Second issue: schematic view is not the default value populated in the descend window when browsing hierarchies. I'm not using a Maestro view I'm just browsing schematics and when I descend into a block that contains a verilog view it automatically prompts for verilog which is VERY annoying since my muscle memory just strikes the enter key immediately (but I do also like to retain the option of changing the view when I want to). I went to the Options -> Editor window under the Commands tab and changed the 'View Name List' to begin with schematic symbol and so on. When I make this selection I get the desired behavior, namely that the schematic view is selected by default when the descend window opens. I used this to find the altered command in the Cds environment editor and added the following to the .cdsenv file:
schematic viewNameList string "schematic symbol behavioral functional system verilog pld_verilog lai_verilog lmsi_verilog"
This does not change the behavior of the tool, I have to manually change the 'View Name List' option every time I open the tool to get the desired behavior.
I'm using Cadence version 6.1.8-64b.500.9