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Calibre

Calibre will do rules checking and parasitic extraction of VLSI designs.

To setup the Calibre environment, type

Calibre

This will change the command line prompt to include "[Calibre]".

To run the program

calibre -gui

To view the documentation

mgcdocs

To use the Cadence / Calibre interface, add the following to your .cdsinit file and remember to invoke both environments, Cadence and Calibre (and possibly ADS).

Calibre setup

check CALIBRE_HOME

cal_home=getShellEnvVar("CALIBRE_HOME") if( cal_home==nil then

   cal_home=getShellEnvVar("MGC_HOME")
   if( cal_home!=nil then
       printf("// CALIBRE_HOME environment variable not set; setting it to value of MGC_HOME\n");
   )

)

if( cal_home!=nil && isDir(cal_home) && isReadable(cal_home) then

   ; Load calibre.skl or calibre.4.3.skl, not both!

   ; Load calibre.skl for Cadence versions 4.4 and greater
   load(strcat(cal_home "/lib/calibre.skl"))

Load calibre.4.3.skl for Cadence version 4.3

load(strcat(cal_home "/lib/calibre.4.3.skl"))

else

   ; CALIBRE_HOME is not set correctly. Report the problem.

   printf("//  Calibre Error: Environment variable ")

   if( cal_home==nil || cal_home=="" then
       printf("CALIBRE_HOME is not set.");
   else
       if( !isDir(cal_home) then
           printf("CALIBRE_HOME does not point to a directory.");
       else
           if( !isReadable(cal_home) then
               printf("CALIBRE_HOME points to an unreadable directory.");
           )
       )
   )
   printf(" Calibre Skill Interface not loaded.\n")

   ; Display a dialog box message about load failure.

   hiDisplayAppDBox(
       ?name           'MGCHOMEErrorDlg
       ?dboxBanner     "Calibre Error"
       ?dboxText       "Calibre Skill Interface not loaded."
       ?dialogType     hicErrorDialog
       ?dialogStyle    'modal
      ?buttonLayout   'Close
   )

)

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