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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).
; .cdsinit for Calibre
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;
; 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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