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- Silvaco TCAD tools
- Tools by Cadence
- Opus
- Hspice circuit simulator
- Magic - a VLSI layout tool
- Irsim - a switch-level simulator
- Sue - a switch-level simulator
- Verilog simulator
- Star-Sim simulator
- Matlab
- Framemaker
- A CAD tools page by Mark Horowitz's group.
And here is more detailed information about some of the tools listed above.
- General
- Before trying to run any of the afs-available tools, be sure to
run "klog" (or "kinit" and then "aklog") and add the
following lines to your .cshrc:
source /usr/class/ee272/DOT.cshrc
source /usr/class/ee/DOT.cshrc
source /afs/ir/users/b/b/bbaas/DOT.cshrc (temporary location)
- Silvaco Intl tool suite
- Can only be run on universe
- Binaries are located in /tools/silvaco/bin
- To run: add the following to your .cshrc:
set path=($path /tools/silvaco/bin)
setenv SFLM_SERVER universe.Stanford.EDU
setenv CMSERVER universe.Stanford.EDU
- VWF Interactive Tools Tutoraal at: file:/tools/silvaco/doc/html/index.html
- pdf copy of manuals in: /tools/silvaco/doc/tcad1/
- User manuals are by Lalit's desk
- CDROM and installation manual kept by Vjeko
- Hspice by Avant - circuit simulator
- Path: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/class/ee/hspice/96/bin/mwaves
- Path: /afs/ir.stanford.edu/class/ee/hspice/96/bin/hspice
- Magic - a VLSI layout tool
- Path: /usr/class/ee/bin/magic/
- Use: magic -d X11 or you can find useful aliases in /import/share/DOT.cshrc
- Source: /import/share/misc/magic-6.5.1/
- Doc: /import/share/misc/magic-6.5.1/doc/
- Comments: This is the original version of magic. To patch source files to add shrink_one command take a look at cif/ subdirectory. For compilation instructions see READ_ME file in the magic-6.5.1 directory. (Bevan has original email patches in email file.)
- Also see Magic FAQ page for link to the most current version of magic and The Magic Home Page for magic man pages and full tutorial.
- Irsim
- Path: /usr/class/ee/bin/irsim
- Use: irsim prm_file sim_file
- Sue
- Path: /usr/class/ee/bin/sue
- Sue tips
- Verilog
- Path: /usr/class/ee/bin/verilog
- Star-Sim
Star-Sim (formerly ADM) is an easy-to-use, accurate, high capacity, high performance transient circuit simulator. Proven in graphics, memory, communications, and mixed-sig-nal designs, Star-Sim handles large designs and delivers current and voltage waveforms well within 5% of SPICE with speedups of 10 - 1,000 times. Star-Sim also offers unprece-dented ease of use: no technology file calibration, no netlist translation, no netlist cut-and-paste; just the look and feel of SPICE, thereby preserving your investment in existing SPICE models. Star-Sim achieves its high capacity and performance from a number of technological advances. First, Star-Sim obtains an analytic closed-form solution for dynamic transistor equations. As a result, trial-and-error iterative numerical methods used by SPICE for evaluating transistor equations are avoided, resulting in increased efficiency. Second, nonlinear table-based transistor models replace CPU-intensive model equations without sacrificing accuracy to further generate speedup. Moreover, an advanced circuit partition-ing algorithm eliminates the superlinear simulation time increase experienced by SPICE; for example, if a circuit's transistor count doubles, the Star-Sim simulation time will not increase by a factor greater than 2. Generation of the table-based models and circuit par-titioning are all transparent to the user.
Here is short info on what to do to run star-sim:
Add the following into your .cshrc
source /import/share/DOT.cshrc
(most of you have already done that)
This will add
/import/tools/sim/bin
to your path. This is the location of all star-sim binaries.
Star-Sim manual is in:
/import/tools/sim/doc/
It's in pdf format.
The original partition from CIS (cadaver.stanford.edu) can be found at
/import/tools/sim/cad
or
/import/cad
To access star-sim directory look in anagram subdirectory.
- Matlab by Mathworks
- Matlab4 path: /usr/pubsw/bin/matlab4
- Matlab5 path: /usr/pubsw/bin/matlab5
- Framemaker by Adobe
- Source the group DOT.cshrc file (see above)
- Type: maker
- User manuals are by Vjeko's desk
- Useful tips: Frame Users page
- Before trying to run any of the afs-available tools, be sure to
run "klog" (or "kinit" and then "aklog") and add the
following lines to your .cshrc: