Layout XL and layout...

Hello All,

My question might be stupid, but ...

I would like to know how to make a layout VXL compliant without layout
XL.

I mean, we don't have enough licenses in my company. So, i would like
to know what kind of informations are present in the layout (in the
net, or cells and so on...) to create a skill code(!) to make some old
layouts VXL compliant without using VXL.

I know that i just need to use VXL one time, update source and
components (or something like that!)
but VXL does not recognizes instances when the name in layout is
different from schematic (i use 5.1.41)

Maybe i'm a dreamer and something like that can not be done by skill
code ?

Thanks for your help !

bubu

 

Hi,

you can do following,

1. copy the devices from schematic to layout directly
2. change all of device cellview names from symbol to layout in layout
view
3. add | in front of each instance name, for example, the instance
name is MN1, change it to |MN1

Then the layout view is compliant to Layout XL....

You can write a skill program to do the above procedure...

Jingnan

 

If anyone has Skill that changes instances names to VXL compliant
names and would be able/willing to share, I would be interested.

Thank you,
Eric

 

Wouldn't this require knowledge of how the instances were created in the first
place? There is the Create Device Correspondence form in VXL which effectively
does this (in IC613 there's no absolute need for the names to match anyway,
since the binding is net based rather than instance name based - although you
can make the names match as you create bindings anyway).

Regards,

Andrew.