[Magic-dev] Good Tools to Use With Magic

[David Fang]

> Hi, this is Dean Lewis. I've been using Magic for a couple months now, and
> I have top say that I much prefer it to Cadence which I've used before.
> However, I do miss the schematic editor and LVS. Are there tools that
> provide this functionality and work well with Magic that you could
> recommend? Also, could you recommend a spice program? Right now I'm
> working with a bare-bones hspice program that requires me to manually edit
> the spice file. I'd prefer something more automated. Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Take a look at

 	http://geda.seul.org/
 	http://www.opencircuitdesign.com/

for collections of open-source EDA tools.  Frankly, I haven't gotten 
around to playing with many of these, but they are on my watch list.

Some candidate replacements for spice:
 	http://geda.seul.org/tools/gnucap/index.html
 	http://geda.seul.org/tools/ngspice/index.html

Editing of spice files should be minimal, using ext2spice (comes with 
magic), so you might want to look at its various options, e.g. -f spice3.
Going to other formats might take some sed/awk-ing, however.

Fang



David Fang
Computer Systems Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cornell University
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
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