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From: Graham Petley (graham.petley AT vlsitechnology DOT org)
Date: Sun Sep 28 2003 - 02:24:58 EDT

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    Hallo Charles,
    The spice decks I got had no fixed caps. I can't say I agree
    with the accuracy of that! 
    Best Regards, Graham
    --- cfk <cfk AT pacbell DOT net> wrote:
    > Here are four files created with iv1v0x05.mag and
    > magic-7.2.51. The invertor
    > came from Graham's web site http://vlsitechnology.org . These
    > are the ext
    > and spice files from his invertor using both the 0.25um and
    > 0.18um
    > technology files. For 0.25um, I used 'magic -w
    > -TSCN5M_DEEP.12'. For the
    > 0.18um, I used 'magic -w -TSCN6M_DEEP.09'. In both cases, I
    > copied the
    > invertor cell to the respective file names temp25.mag and
    > temp18.mag. The
    > cell files are the same. The only reason for this was to make
    > the extracted
    > and spice files have different names. The method used to do
    > create the ext
    > and spice files was:
    > 
    > ;extract all
    > ;exttosim rthresh infinite
    > ;exttosim cthresh infinite
    > ;exttospice
    > 
    > It is interesting that Magic did describe the length of the
    > transistors
    > correctly as 0.25um and 0.18um and that is very good.
    > 
    > Graham, you might find these ext and spice files interesting
    > to see if you
    > agree with the extracted capacitance and transistor
    > parameters.
    > 
    > For a little extra fun, type 'cif help'. Here is a menu in
    > magic for the cif
    > menu options. From here, you can view coverage by CIF layer
    > name, view CIF
    > layers, read or write a CIF file. I believe Graham has
    > expressed some
    > interest in that type of thing.
    > 
    > Again, I think Graham's work is very interesting and helpful
    > to the magic
    > community.
    > 
    > With high regards, Charles
    > 
    
    > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/octet-stream name=temp25.mag
    
    
    > ATTACHMENT part 3 application/octet-stream name=temp18.spice
    
    
    > ATTACHMENT part 4 application/octet-stream name=temp25.ext
    
    
    > ATTACHMENT part 5 application/octet-stream name=temp18.ext
    
    
    > ATTACHMENT part 6 application/octet-stream name=temp25.spice
    
    
    
    =====
    Graham Petley
    ASIC Specialist and Consulting Engineer
    Metzstrasse 14, 81667 Munich, Germany
    Phone +49-89-6349-7630   Mobile +49-177-282-5072
    http://www.vlsitechnology.org/
    


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