Re: MUDDLib07 and Silicon Compiler

Steven Rubin <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:52:17 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cad.electric.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 12:03 PM 2/23/2011, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Are there some extra steps to make to get a schematic using the MUDD Lib07
>components to automatically generate the layout?
>
>When I use the Silicon Compiler I get UNRESOLVED REFERENCES,
>
>    power
>    PMOStran
>    nMOStran
>    ground
>
>Compiling the VHDL to the QUISC file.
>
>Then while reading the .quisc netlist for layout it says that 'ground' is not
>in the standard cell library.

The Mudd chip was not generated automatically from schematics...it 
was laid-out by hand.

The Silicon Compiler in Electric is for gate placement only...not for 
placing individual transistors.  And even if you did get it to work 
on the schematics, the placement would be pretty bad because the SC 
is 20 years old and still thinks in terms of making rows with routing 
channels inbetween.

    -Steven Rubin