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Running DRC After the inverter layout has been drawn to accurately represent the schematic, to verify that the layout meets all the basic design rules, we need to run a DRC (Design Rule Check). Save the layout cell by clicking on Save. In Custom Designer Editor, go to Verification DRC Setup and Run. Locate the runset file rules.drc.9m_saed90ev from the following directory and click Ok (Fig 52). Directory: /packages/process_kit/generic/generic_90nm/updated_oct2010/SAED_PDK90nm/hercules/drc Figure 52: Runset File For Run Dir, choose your current directory and for tools chose Hercules. Make sure that you select OpenAccess as a format Fig. 53. San Francisco State University Nano‐electronics and Computing Research Lab 50
Figure 53: DRC Setup Click OK. After DRC is done, you will see a message on your Console indicating that DRC is done, see Fig. 54. Figure 54: DRC Confirmation When the layout is free from all the errors and meets all the design rules, the output file inverter.LAYOUT_ERRORS will say CLEAN as In Fig.55 and 56. If there are some errors in the layout, it will say ERROR and the error details are specified in this file. If you have errors in your DRC, check the location and type of errors and correct them. This may take multiple iterations. In the beginning it is advisable to try to correct only a few errors and run the DRC again to check if you corrected them properly. It is important to pass the DRC check before you proceed to LVS and parasitic extraction. San Francisco State University Nano‐electronics and Computing Research Lab 51
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Page 3 and 4: Introduction This manual assumes yo
Page 5 and 6: Figure 1: Shell commands Custom Des
Page 7 and 8: Figure 4: New Cell View After you c
Page 9 and 10: Figure 8: PMOS and NMOS Next add wi
Page 11 and 12: Adding Pins To add pins to the sche
Page 13 and 14: Figure 13: Schematic with Pins San
Page 15 and 16: Figure 15: Inverter Symbol You may
Page 17 and 18: Figure 17: Drawing an Instance of a
Page 19 and 20: Figure 19: Edit property You final
Page 21 and 22: 1. Choose the appropriate Models fo
Page 23 and 24: Figure 23: DC Simulation Window 3.
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Page 55 and 56: In the layout window go to Verifica
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Page 73 and 74: Figure 78: Open Design with Parasit
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Page 77 and 78: For the pins, go to Add Pins and p
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Page 85 and 86: Figure 90: Ring Oscillator Layout F
Page 87 and 88: Debug any DRC errors that come up.
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