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Toggle implant layers in qcells

MarkTown
MarkTown over 13 years ago

 Hi,

     I got the qcells working for a pfet and a nfet.  Liked how well that worked.

     We have 2 VT layer to adject the Vts in our process. So I need them to be toggled on and off. I can get the layers to be added. But I couldn't figure out how to get them to toggle so they are not in the layout or are in the layout.

 

    Secondly, I'll need to create some devices that aren't in the qcell code. Is the code behind the qcell menu accessable to be modified?

 

thanks

Mark

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    skillUser over 13 years ago

    Hi Mark,

    Did you consider "wrapping" the QCell in a PCell so that the PCell takes one extra parameter, the toggle option for the implant layer, and use this to decide whic of two QCells should be placed (the one with the implant, or the one without), and all the other parameters are passed directly to the QCell.  I have not tried this, so I don't know if you lose flexibility in the QCell instances (for example, you would get the Edit Instance properties form for the PCell instances, rather than the Edit QCell Properties form that you have been getting for the QCell instances, and the chaining etc. that you can do directly on the form would not be form driven by that interface any longer.)

    Just a thought.

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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  • skillUser
    skillUser over 13 years ago

    Hi Mark,

    Did you consider "wrapping" the QCell in a PCell so that the PCell takes one extra parameter, the toggle option for the implant layer, and use this to decide whic of two QCells should be placed (the one with the implant, or the one without), and all the other parameters are passed directly to the QCell.  I have not tried this, so I don't know if you lose flexibility in the QCell instances (for example, you would get the Edit Instance properties form for the PCell instances, rather than the Edit QCell Properties form that you have been getting for the QCell instances, and the chaining etc. that you can do directly on the form would not be form driven by that interface any longer.)

    Just a thought.

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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