Re: Cells in new processes

[Thomas A.D. Riley]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:06, Steven Rubin wrote:


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> >         For the 470 cells, If I had GDSII layouts would it be a batch operation to get minimal electric cells for manual placing and automatic routing?
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>     Electric has a built-in facility for this (you could run it yourself).  It takes a GDS file and a LEF file.  The GDS has layers and the LEF has export locations.  Then Electric merges the two to produce a library.  I can do this or you can do it yourself.  So it is relatively automated, but you have to get the GDS layers right, find the right libraries, etc.
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>        -Steve

I haven't been able to find out how to do this in the manual. It seems easy to import an LEF or a GDSII library but merging them into one library doesn't seem possible right now. What am I missing?

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