Importing and exporting GDS (Cadence IC 6.1.x / EDI)

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Contents
  • Introduction
  • Open Access
  • Encounter
  • SKILL examples

Introduction

XStream has replaced PIPO (Physical In Physical Out)

Reference documentation:

  • Design Data Translator's Reference (transferOA.pdf)
  • Design Data Translator's SKILL Reference (sktransferOA.pdf)

Cadence IC 6.x (Open Access)

Running XStream In

CIW ⇒ Import ⇒ Stream…

or type in the SKILL prompt

pipoDisplay(transStreamInForm)

or use the strmin executable at the Linux command line

linux% strmin -help
#!/bin/tcsh

set streamFile = filename.gds
set targetLib = myLib
set layerMapFile = "/path/to/mapfile"

...

strmin -strmFile $streamFile      \
       -library  $targetLib       \
       -mapFile  $layerMapFile    \
       -logFile  ./log/strmIn.log \
       [other options...]

Encounter

File ⇒ Save ⇒ GDS/OASIS

encounter> streamOut ./gds/$DESIGN.gds [options]
encounter> streamOut -help

Encounter-to-OpenAccess map file required

SKILL

Put all strmin flags into a list, e.g.

streamInKeys = list(
   'runDir          "./"
   'libName         "targetName"
   'layerTable      "/path/to/filename.layermap"
   'cellMapTable    "/path/to/cell.map"
   'userSkillFiel   ""
   ...
   ...
) ; end streamInKeys list

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