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From: Robert Penny (rob AT network DOT ucsd.edu) Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 16:30:20 EDT
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Guijun Dai wrote: > Thanks for your help. also thanks for Tim's help. Now I have installed the > magic 7.1 on my Red Hat 7.2 because I got defs.mak file and these folders: > bin, lib and man. The next step, I don't know how to run magic 7.1 ? would > you please tell me ? I'm not sure if you're asking how to run magic, or how to use it. I'm not an expert on the installation process, but I'm assuming that you've done the "make install" step and the magic executable got installed on $CAD_HOME/bin. Normally I just run magic with the command magic -T techfile layoutfile where "techfile" is the technology file describing the IC foundry process you are using and "layoutfile" is the layout. You'll have to work through the documentation to understand what these two files are. If $CAD_HOME/bin is not in your execution path, then you'll either have to explicitly specify the full path to the magic executable or preferably add $CAD_HOME/bin to your execution path to run magic. Make sure also that $CAD_HOME is defined (probably best to put it in your .bash_profile file so that it's always available). Magic needs this to be set so that it can find stuff. If you're asking how to use magic, if you look in the source directory where you built magic there is a documentation directory "/doc" containing the documentation in a number of formats including postcript. You should print out these and work through the tutorials. Incidentally, a gotcha that I ran into. It will be a lot easier if your X Window display really has a three button mouse, rather than using a simultaneous pressing of two buttons to emulate the third button. Some commands in the tutorials just won't work without that third button. Hope this helps, -Rob Penny.
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