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BSD 3-Clause License

Copyright 2023 Lawrence T. Clark, Vinay Vashishtha, or Arizona State University

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Calibre Usage Instructions

The Calibre tool environment is available through the Virtuoso toolbar. The DRC, LVS, and PEX runsets have been supplied with the PDK.

User is advised to create directories named drc, lvs, and pex in their local PDK run directory to which they may direct the files generated when running Calibre DRC, LVS, and PEX, respectively, in order to help reduce cluttering.

Rule Files

Rule files specific to DRC, LVS, and PEX are required to run the respective tools and may be found at:

For DRC:

$PDK_DIR/calibre/ruledirs/drc/drcRules_calibre_asap5.rul

For LVS:

$PDK_DIR/calibre/ruledirs/lvs/lvsRules_calibre_asap5.rul

For PEX/xACT:

$PDK_DIR/calibre/ruledirs/rcx/rcxControl_calibre_asap5.rul

Specify the above path in the 'DRC/LVS/PEX Rules File' field in the 'Rules' tab for the corresponding tools. Within the same tab, specify paths to the drc, lvs, and pex run directories, that were created earlier, in the 'DRC/LVS/PEX Run Directory' field.

Runsets

Settings from a particular DRC/LVS/PEX run may be saved as runsets for later use. Sample runsets are also provided below. However, users are advised to create their own according to their need.

Sample DRC runset:

$PDK_DIR/calibre/rundirs/drc/runset_dir_drc/drcRunset_asap5

Sample LVS runset:

$PDK_DIR/calibre/rundirs/lvs/runset_dir_lvs/lvsRunset_asap5

Sample xACT runset:

$PDK_DIR/calibre/rundirs/pex/runset_dir_pex/xactRunset_asap5

User will need to load the runset the very first time during the start-up. On subsequent invocation, the user will be presented with a runset used previously.