Layout (an introduction)
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Contents
- Introduction
- Tools overview and documentation
- Basic layout techniques
Keywords:
Introduction
You should refer to specific IC layout textbooks for layout design theory and practice guidelines. Moreover refer to your specific technology documentation (e.g. design manual)
See also
Reference documentation
Learning analog layout from scratch could be a pain without adequate guidelines and references.
Good textbooks have been collected here.
Tools overview and relative documentation
- Introduction
- Virtuoso Layout Editor L/XL
- Cadence verification tools
- Diva
- Assura
- Mentor Graphics Calibre verification tool
Open source tools: LayoutEditor.
Assura Physical Verification
Instalation directory:
/usr/cadence/Assura_4.10oa-615
Documentation:
cd ~/cadence/doc
mkdir Assura_4.10
cd Assura_4.10
find /usr/cadence/Assura_4.10oa-615/doc -name '*.pdf' -exec ln -s {} . \;
Virtuoso Layout Editor L/XL
Virtuoso Layout Editor (VLE) L/XL
Documentation in
$IC_DIR/doc/vlehelp/vlehelp.pdf
Mentor Graphics Calibre verification tool
Calibre has become de facto industry standard for physical layout verification.
Main installation directory in
/usr/mentor/calibre_2010
Documentation
cd ~/cadence/doc
mkdir Calibre_10.20
cd Calibre_10.20
find /usr/mentor/docs/docs_cal_2010.3_19.12/docs/pdfdocs -name '*.pdf' -exec ln -s {} . \;