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pCell skill for beginners

stuso
stuso over 16 years ago

Hi,

i'd like some advice for creating my first simple pCell from skill. I have no skill experience so i'm looking for a good place to start.

My ultimate aim (for now) is to create a rectangular via array with X and Y stretch handles. For example you have M1->M4(the top & bottom layers would be parameters) that you can stretch in X or Y and it fills with the max vias allowed by spacing rules. However to begin with i'd be happy to create a parameterised rectangle of M1 that i can stretch in one direction & take it from there.

Pointers to on-line tutorials and very simple examples would be great, right now i am blindly searching around source-link.

Thanks

Stu

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  • skillUser
    skillUser over 11 years ago

    Hi,

    First, please read the forum guidelines -  replying to an old post is not a great idea, start a new thread instead.

    However, it would seem that you do not have the library name correct in the code, it needs to be changed to the name of the library that you want to create the PCell(s) in.  Once you correct this the code may work, if the layer names are the same as in the code - otherwise you will need to update these also to match the layer names from your technology.

    Hopefully this will get you working.

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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