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Duration: 4 Days
Pricing: 1,800 GBP  (2,600 EUR)
Course Part Number: 040497

Description

Education Services can help you acquire the skills needed to customize Falcon Framework based applications (Board Station, Design Architect, IC Station, etc.) and efficiently utilize them according to your specific company needs and requirements. You will also be able to create new functions and tools for use in your applications thereby automating many time consuming and repetitive manual tasks. Hands-on lab exercises will reinforce lecture topics under the guidance of our industry expert instructors.

You will learn how to:

  • Modify or create new Menus for each applications
  • Modify or create new Dialog Boxes for each application
  • Modify or create new Prompt bars for each application
  • Modify or create new Startup files for each application
  • Modify or create new custom Userware for each application
  • Modify or create new Functions for each scope of your application
  • Modify or create new Keys and Stroke definitions for each scope of your application

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with useful examples of how AMPLE userware is created and debugged. Hands-on lab topics include:

  • Creating and debugging functions.
  • The effect of scopes on function execution.
  • Creating Dialog boxes that use a variety of Sites like Switch sites, Repeat sites, Action sites, etc.
  • Creating Prompt bars that contain Options... box or Dynamic list box.
  • Making font changes to existing prompt bars.
  • Create functions that read or write ASCII or binary files.
  • Create new Menus.
  • Make modifications to existing Menus.
  • Create (define) Hot-keys that perform specific tasks.
  • Create (define) Strokes that perform specific tasks.
  • Create Commands and/or aliases that execute specific functions.
  • Create Startup files that customize your application on tool invokation.
  • Organize userware and set AMPLE_PATH variable for automatic and efficient loading of your Ample userware.

Audience

  • All engineers and designers using Falcon Framework applications.
  • CAD engineers and managers who would like to customize and/or integrate Mentor tools into their design flow.
  • Members of CAD support group who are responsible for increased productivity of the entire design engineering teams.
  • Librarians responsible for creating library Menus and other related functions

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with the Falcon Framework
  • Preferably with some experience with a high level language

Key Topics

  • AMPLE Syntax
  • Control Flow
  • Functions
  • Dialog Box Editor
  • Debugging Userware
  • Input and Output Control
  • Transcripts
  • Commands
  • Keys and Strokes
  • Menus
  • Startup Files
  • AMPLE Userware Organization
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