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- •Contents
- •Preface
- •Related Documents
- •Typographic and Syntax Conventions
- •Introduction to the Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •Editing Your Technology File for Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •Sample Technology File
- •Virtuoso XL Technology File Requirements
- •Layer Rules
- •Devices
- •Physical Rules
- •Virtuoso XL Rules (lxRules)
- •Compactor Rules
- •Preparing Your Connectivity Source for the Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •Placing Design Elements
- •Using Design Variables
- •Netlist Processor Expressions
- •Analog Expression Language Expressions
- •Simulation Design Variables
- •Using One-to-Many Mapping
- •Iterated Instances and Bus Pins
- •Multiplication Factor (mfactor)
- •Series-Connection Factor (sfactor)
- •One-to-Many Assignment with the Update Device Correspondence
- •Using Many-to-Many or Many-to-One Mapping
- •Modifying Many-to-Many or Many-to-One Mapping Between Components
- •Deleting Many-to-Many or Many-to-One Mapping Between Components
- •Using Virtuoso XL Properties
- •Using the lxUseCell Property to Specify Layout Devices to Use
- •Using the lvsIgnore Property to Exclude Schematic Symbols
- •Using the lxlgnoredParams Property to Exclude Device Properties
- •Using the lxRemoveDevice property to Ignore Parasitic Devices
- •Using the lxViewList and lxStopList Properties to Prepare Hierarchical Designs
- •Using the lxCombination Property to Build Complex Devices
- •Preparing Instances and Pins in Your Layout for the Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •Preparing Pins for the Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •Preparing Pins for Permutability
- •Search Order Variable
- •Syntax
- •Macros
- •Setting the permuteRule Property in the Symbol Master
- •Setting the permuteRule Property in the Device Master
- •Setting the permuteRule Property in the Symbol Instance
- •Setting the permuteRule Property in the Device Instance
- •Setting the permuteRule Property in the Component Description Format
- •Preparing Instances for Hierarchical Connectivity Checking
- •Setting Up Your Desktop
- •Customizing Your Desktop Layout
- •Using Multiple Cellviews
- •Printing to the Command Interpreter Window
- •Changing Display Colors
- •Using Bindkeys
- •Displaying Bindkeys
- •Loading Virtuoso XL Bindkeys
- •Setting Environment Variables
- •Information About Online Forms
- •Layout XL Options Form
- •Introduction to Abutment
- •Abutment Requirements
- •Setting Up Cells for Abutment
- •abutAccessDir
- •abutClass
- •Steps in Auto-Abutment
- •Sample Parameterized Cells Set Up for Abutment
- •Example 1
- •Example 2
- •Creating CMOS Pcells to Use with Abutment
- •autoAbutment Properties
- •The abutMosStretchMat Property
- •abutMosStretchMat Rules for MOS Abutment
- •Example Code Setting MOS Abutment Properties
- •Setting Environment Variables for Abutment
- •Move Together
- •Constraint Assisted
- •Using Device Abutment
- •Generating Your Layout with Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •Starting Virtuoso XL from the Schematic
- •Importing a Netlist for a Connectivity Reference
- •Starting Virtuoso XL from the Layout View
- •Connectivity Reference as a Netlist
- •Mapping File Structure
- •Working with Template Files
- •Saving Form Contents
- •Loading Template Files
- •Modifying Templates
- •Loading Template Files
- •Creating Template Files
- •Template File Syntax
- •General Syntax Rules
- •Boundaries Section
- •I/O Pins Section
- •Sample Template
- •Generating a Layout with Components Not Placed (Gen From Source)
- •Moving Components from the Schematic into the Layout (Pick from Schematic)
- •Placing a Group of Schematic Elements Together
- •Placing Individual Components
- •Generating Pins
- •Viewing Unplaced Instances/Pins
- •Viewing in Place
- •Manually Abutting Devices Using Pick from Schematic
- •Cloning Components
- •Cloning
- •Troubleshooting
- •Cloning Using Multiple Cellviews
- •Using Correspondence Points
- •Information About Online Forms
- •Add Correspondence Pairs Form
- •Cloning Form
- •Correspondence Pairs Form
- •Import XL Netlist Form
- •Layout Generation Options Form
- •Open File Form
- •Pick from Schematic Form
- •Remove Correspondence Components Form
- •Set Pin Label Text Style Form
- •Startup Option Form
- •Template File Form
- •Editing Your Layout with Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •Identifying Incomplete Nets
- •Moving Objects Manually in the Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •Moving Objects Using Move Options
- •Setting the Move Form to Appear Automatically
- •Aligning Objects
- •Post Selecting Devices
- •PreSelecting Devices
- •Swapping Components
- •Permuting Component Pins
- •Permuting Pins Manually
- •Checking Permutation Information
- •Using Device Locking
- •Using Automatic Spacing
- •Using Interactive Device Abutment
- •Setting Component Types
- •About Component Types
- •MOS Transistor Stacking and Folding Parameters
- •Modifying a Component Type
- •Using Transistor Chaining
- •Using Transistor Folding
- •Controlling the Folding Grid
- •Folding Transistors
- •Adding Instances to a Layout
- •Adding Pins to a Layout
- •Assigning Pins to a Net
- •Maintaining Connectivity When Editing a Flattened Pcell
- •Information About Online Forms
- •Assign Nets Form
- •Edit Component Types Form
- •Move Form
- •Set Transistor Folding Form
- •Show Incomplete Nets Form
- •Stretch Form
- •Virtuoso XL Alignment Form
- •Using the Virtuoso Custom Placer
- •Overview
- •Main Features
- •Place Menu Command Summary
- •Other Commands Used with the Virtuoso custom placer
- •Placement Styles
- •Setting Up the Virtuoso XL Layout Editor for Placement
- •Identifying the Placement Translation Rules
- •Setting Cadence Design Framework II Environment Variables
- •Setting Environment Variables for the Virtuoso Custom Router and Placer
- •Setting MOS Chaining and Folding Parameters
- •Abutting Standard Cells
- •Using Auto-Abutment During Placement
- •Placement Constraints
- •Constraint Manager Geometric Constraints
- •Pin Placement Constraints
- •Constraint Limitations
- •Placement Parameters and Component Types
- •MOS Transistor Chaining and Folding Parameters
- •Pin Placement
- •Assigning Pins to an Edge
- •Assigning Pins to a Fixed Position
- •Railing Pins
- •Loading the Template File
- •Assigning Spacing Between Pins
- •Saving Pin Placement to a Template File
- •Partitioning the Design
- •Creating a Partition
- •Loading the Template File
- •Saving Partitions to a Template File
- •Setting Placement Planning
- •Assisted CMOS Placement
- •Choose Component Types Form
- •Running the Virtuoso Custom Placer
- •Prerequisites to Placement
- •Running the Virtuoso Custom Placer: Initial Placement
- •Stopping the Placer
- •Running Load Balancing Service (LBS)
- •Troubleshooting Placement Results
- •Running the Virtuoso Custom Placer: Detailed Placement
- •Showing Congestions
- •Information About Forms
- •Auto Placer Form
- •Partitioning Form
- •Choose Component Types Form
- •Pin Placement Form
- •Load Template File Form
- •Placement Planning Form (Assisted CMOS)
- •Placement Planning Form (Assisted Standard Cell)
- •Placement Planning Form (Assisted Mixed CMOS/Standard-Cell)
- •Preparing Your Design for Routing in the Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •Understanding Connectivity
- •Pseudo-Parallel Connections
- •Selecting Layers
- •Changing Layers
- •Connecting Nets
- •Creating Paths
- •Connecting Nets with Path Stitching
- •Connecting Nets with Design Shapes
- •Checking Connectivity with Flight Lines
- •Checking Connectivity with Markers
- •Finding Markers
- •Explaining Markers
- •Deleting Single Markers
- •Deleting All Markers
- •Using the Virtuoso Compactor on a Routed Design
- •Overview
- •Main Features
- •Wire Editing Commands
- •Virtuoso Custom Router to Virtuoso XL Command Mapping
- •Prerequisites
- •Rule Information
- •Net Connectivity Information
- •Routing Area Boundary
- •Enabling Wire Editing
- •Toggling Between Virtuoso XL and Wire Editing Enabled
- •Loading ASCII Rules Files
- •The Wire Editing Environment
- •Status Banner
- •Preview Wires and Routing Aids
- •Mouse Button Behavior
- •Using Environment Variables
- •Routing Paths
- •Routing a Single Path
- •Routing Multiple Paths
- •Preventing and Checking Design Rule Violations
- •Interactive Checking
- •Same Net Checking
- •Checking Regions
- •Checking Route and Pin Violations
- •Routing Options and Styles
- •Matching Path Width and Pin Widths
- •Matching Path Width and Pin Widths for Multiple Paths
- •Gathering Bus Wires
- •Spacing for Gathered Bus Wires
- •Overriding Bus Spacing
- •Rotating the Bus Cursor
- •Cycling the Control Wire
- •Allowing Redundant Wiring
- •Allowing Orthogonal Jogs
- •Route To Cursor
- •Allow Floating Nets
- •Connecting Multiple Component Pins
- •Pushing Routes and Components
- •Routing Shielded Nets
- •Routing Tandem Layer Pairs
- •Using Vias
- •Changing Layers and Adding Vias
- •Using Vias Patterns on Multiple Paths
- •Legal Via Sites
- •Rotating Vias
- •Pseudo Vias
- •Editing Routed Connections
- •Stretching Paths and Vias
- •Splitting and Stretching Paths
- •Copying Routes
- •Using Critic Wire
- •Compacting Paths Using Pull
- •Displaying Reports
- •Displaying Routing Status Reports
- •Displaying Network Reports
- •Displaying Component Reports
- •Displaying Net Reports
- •Creating Rules Reports
- •Search Reports
- •Saving Reports
- •Setting Constraints
- •Using the Virtuoso Constraint Manager
- •Using .do Files
- •About the Forms
- •Add Via Form
- •Check Routes Form
- •Create Path Form
- •Find File Form
- •Layout
- •Reports Form
- •Route Options Form
- •Save As Form
- •Search Form
- •Split Form
- •Via Pattern Pop-up
- •Reports
- •Route Status Report Window
- •Network Report Window
- •Instance Report Window
- •Net Report Window
- •Rules Report Window
- •Setting Environment Variables
- •Troubleshooting
- •Finding Design Elements (Probing)
- •Probing Hierarchical Designs
- •Removing Probes
- •Exiting the Probe Command
- •Showing the Options Form
- •Checking Shorts and Opens
- •Comparing Design Elements and Parameters (Checking against the Connectivity Source)
- •Information About Online Forms
- •Probe Options Form
- •Updating Design Data in Virtuoso XL
- •Updating Layout Parameters
- •Updating Schematic Parameters
- •Updating Device Correspondence
- •Creating Device Correspondence
- •Needed Mode
- •Computer Aided Mode
- •Updating the Connectivity Reference
- •Changing the Device (Instance) View
- •Information About Online Forms
- •Change Instance View Form
- •Create Device Correspondence
- •Problems with the Interface
- •Invalid Markers from Previous Software Versions
- •Options Form Does Not Appear
- •Virtuoso XL Performance Is Slow
- •Problems with Editing
- •Components Move Slowly
- •Extra Probes Appear
- •Layout Generation Options Form Does Not Keep Values from the Last Entry
- •Parameters Not Updated
- •Schematic Not Editable
- •Warning to Update Your Design Appears at Startup
- •Problems with Connectivity
- •Connections Not Made
- •Incomplete Nets Command Does Not Recognize Connected Pins and Nets
- •Markers for Nonexistent Overlaps and Shorts Appear
- •Path Ends Not Accepted
- •Placement and Routing Do Not Run
- •Virtuoso XL Does Not Recognize Physical Vias
- •Moving Software Executables To a New Location
- •Environment Variables
- •Virtuoso XL Layout Editor
- •alignApplySeparation
- •alignApplySpacings
- •alignDirection
- •alignLayer
- •alignMethod
- •alignSelectionMode
- •alignSeparation
- •allowRotation
- •autoAbutment
- •autoArrange
- •autoPermutePins
- •autoSpace
- •checkTimeStamps
- •ciwWindow
- •compTypeRefLibs
- •constraintAssistedMode
- •createBoundaryLabel
- •crossSelect
- •extractEnable
- •extractStopLevel
- •globalPlacement
- •ignoredParams
- •ignoreNames
- •incNetCycleHilite
- •incNetHiliteLayer
- •infoWindow
- •initAspectRatio
- •initAspectRatioOption
- •initBoundaryLayer
- •initCreateBoundary
- •initCreateInstances
- •initCreateMTM
- •initCreatePins
- •initDoFolding
- •initDoStacking
- •initEstimateArea
- •initGlobalNetPins
- •initIOLabelType
- •initIOPinLayer
- •initIOPinName
- •initPinHeight
- •initPinMultiplicity
- •initPinWidth
- •initPrBoundaryH
- •initPrBoundaryW
- •initSymbolicPins
- •initUtilization
- •layoutWindow
- •lswWindow
- •lxAllowPseudoParallelNets
- •lxDeltaWidth
- •lxFingeringNames
- •lxGenerationOrientation
- •lxGenerationTopLevelOnly
- •lxInitResetSource
- •lxStackMinimalFolding
- •lxStackPartitionParameters
- •lxWidthTolerance
- •maintainConnections
- •mfactorNames
- •mfactorSplit
- •moveAsGroup
- •openWindow
- •optimizePlacement
- •paramTolerance
- •pathProbe
- •pathPurposeList
- •pathSwitchLayer
- •pathSwitchPurpose
- •preserveTerminalContacts
- •probeCycleHilite
- •probeDevice
- •probeHiliteLayer
- •probeInfoInCIW
- •probeNet
- •probePin
- •rowGroundLayer
- •rowGroundName
- •rowGroundWidth
- •rowPowerLayer
- •rowPowerName
- •rowPowerWidth
- •rowSupplyPosition
- •rowSupplySpacing
- •rowMOSSupplyPattern
- •rowSTDAllowFlip
- •rowSTDSupplyPattern
- •rulesFile
- •runTime
- •saveAs
- •saveAsCellName
- •saveAsLibName
- •saveAsViewName
- •schematicWindow
- •setPPConn
- •sfactorNames
- •sfactorParam
- •showIncNetEnable
- •stopList
- •templateFileName
- •traverseMixedHierarchies
- •updateReplacesMasters
- •updateWithMarkers
- •vcpConductorDepth
- •vcpKeepoutDepth
- •viewList
- •Wire Editor
- •allowFloatingNets
- •allowJogs
- •allowRedundantWiring
- •autoAdjustLength
- •autoShield
- •busOverride
- •busOverrideValue
- •busWireSpacing
- •busWireSpacingType
- •checkCornerCorner
- •checkCrosstalk
- •checkLength
- •checkLimitWay
- •checkMaxProcessWireWidth
- •checkMaxStackViaDepth
- •checkMaxTotalVia
- •checkMinMaskEdgeLength
- •checkMinProcessWireWidth
- •checkMiter
- •checkNetOrder
- •checkOffManGridPin
- •checkOffWireGridPin
- •checkPinSpacing
- •checkPolygonWire
- •checkProtected
- •checkReentrantPath
- •checkRegion
- •checkSameNet
- •checkSegment
- •checkStub
- •checkUseLayers
- •checkUseVias
- •checkWireExtension
- •doFile
- •enableBusRouting
- •enableTandemPair
- •gatherBusWires
- •inaccessiblePin
- •interactiveChecking
- •matchPinWidth
- •matchPinWidthValue
- •matchWireWidth
- •multiplePinsConnection
- •pinLargerMaxProcessWidth
- •pinSmallerMinProcessWidth
- •pushComponent
- •pushRouting
- •routeAsManyAsPossible
- •routeToCursor
- •routeToCursorStyle
- •sameNetChecking
- •showTimingMeter
- •showTimingOctagon
- •snapToPinOrigin
- •useDoFile
- •useRulesFile
- •viaAssistance
- •viaPattern
- •Private Environment Variables
- •Virtuoso XL Command Quick Reference
- •Using Spice and CDL For Netlist Driven Layout Generation
- •Introduction
- •Specifying Spice Designs
- •Cell Creation Rules
- •Character Considerations
- •Spice Statements
- •File Level Statements
- •Statements Allowed at File Level or within a Subckt Cell or a Top Level Cell
- •Statements Allowed within a Subckt Cell or a Top Level Cell
- •Spice Design Example
- •CDL Design Example
- •Parameter Resolution
- •Parameter Levels
- •Resolving Parameters
- •Putting the Rules Together (Examples)
- •Parameter Scaling
- •Complete ibuf Example Results
- •Virtuoso XL .do File Commands
- •Rule Hierarchy
- •circuit
- •Syntax
- •Example
- •Syntax
- •Example
- •limit
- •Syntax
- •Example
- •rule
- •Syntax
- •Example
- •Syntax
Virtuoso XL Layout Editor User Guide
Environment Variables
checkNetOrder
layout checkNetOrder boolean { t | nil }
Description
Controls whether wiring is checked against net order rules. The default is nil.
GUI Equivalent: |
|
Command |
Verify – Check Routes |
Form Field |
Net Order |
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Virtuoso XL Layout Editor User Guide
Environment Variables
checkOffManGridPin
layout checkOffManGridPin boolean { t | nil }
Description
Controls whether pins that are located off the manufacturing grid are checked. The default is nil.
GUI Equivalent: |
|
Command |
Verify – Check Routes |
Form Field |
Off Manufacturing Grid Pin |
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Virtuoso XL Layout Editor User Guide
Environment Variables
checkOffWireGridPin
layout checkOffWireGridPin boolean { t | nil }
Description
Controls whether pins that are not centered on a wire grid are checked. The default is nil.
GUI Equivalent: |
|
Command |
Verify – Check Routes |
Form Field |
Off Wire Grid Pin |
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Product Version 5.0 |
Virtuoso XL Layout Editor User Guide
Environment Variables
checkPinSpacing
layout checkPinSpacing boolean { t | nil }
Description
Controls whether edge-to-edge spacing between pins is checked. The default is t.
GUI Equivalent: |
|
Command |
Verify – Check Routes |
Form Field |
Pin Spacing |
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