LISA Powerful Script language for Expert

This article introduces the LISA (Language for Interfacing Silvaco Applications) command language and gives an overview of LISA features.

Expert interface scripts (xi-scripts) based on LISA, deliver powerful means for creation of any complicated shapes, parametrized cell constructions, recovery log maintenance, and execution of editing commands from the command line. The possibility to define custom commands delivers ultimate control over editing capabilities. LISA is a command language based on object-oriented concepts. Underlying LISA is a system of library routines called LISA-lib that establishes a common interactive system or environment through which multiple tools can define commands and exchange data. LISA is an integral part of this library.

LISA provides:

• A common environment for multiple tools
• Predefined commands, operators, and data types
• The ability to define new commands and types