• Simulation Standard Technical Journal

Simulation Standard Technical Journal

A Journal for Process and Device Engineers

HIPEX-Net: Hierarchical Layout Extractor for Expert Editor

HIPEX-Net is a hierarchical layout extractor. It can create both hierarchical and flat SPICE formatted netlists of the extracted layout. HIPEX-Net also performs ERC (Electric Rule Checking) on the extracted netlist. This checks for connectivity errors in a chip design such as opens, shorts, and dangling nodes.

“Shortest Path” Option for Flight Line Style (Net Bar)

There is the recent improvement in Expert Layout Editor, the “Shortest path” option was added to Flight line styles (Net Bar). This option allows to build the shortest tree (network) connecting all selected nodes.

Expert Layout Editor Recent Improvements: Over-the-Point Drawing of Orthogonal Shapes

This article presents an overview of new features added to Silvaco's Expert layout editor. Silvaco has taken a careful look at the real-world obstacles faced daily by semiconductor layout designers and design engineers. Silvaco has augmented Expert with features that dramatically increase flexibility and also help to reduce constraint violations and other roadblocks inherent to complex layout design.

Guardian DRC Edge Layer Operations

Recent versions of Guardian DRC introduce operations that involve edge layers, either on input or on output. An edge layer is a layer that contains line segments that are edges or parts of edges of shapes from other layers. These edges have "inner" and "outer" surfaces defined according to the shape layers they were derived from.

Guardian LVS: New Platform-Independent GUI

We introduce a platform-independent version of Guardian LVS. An important feature of any tool is its capability to operate on various platforms and to support internationalization. Now Guardian LVS is a multiplatform application operating on the following platforms: Windows, Linux and Solaris (32- and 64-bit versions).

Counting Instances in an Expert Editor Layout

Q: I have some trouble counting the number of in-stances in a layout using Expert. I have tried to use the Chip Rover feature