Course Description
Calibre
Calibre Using DESIGNrev
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Course Overview
The Calibre Fundamentals: DESIGNrev course will teach you to analyze, compare, and manipulate layout data using Calibre DESIGNrev, Calibre’s state-of-the-art layout viewer. This course teaches you the basics as well as best practices. More importantly, it introduces you to the functionality you might otherwise not even think to look for because it’s that new! In addition, this course provides an introduction to DESIGNrev’s batch scripting functionality, which provides the power of DESIGNrev without the overhead of the graphical user interface. Using Calibre DESIGNrev in batch mode, you can automate chip assembly, as well as layout manipulation and reporting.
Hands-on lab exercises will reinforce lecture and discussion topics under the guidance of our industry-expert instructors.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with concepts of physical verification or layout design
- Familiarity with the UNIX operating systems
PRIMARY COURSE TOPICS
You Will Learn How To:
- Load layout files into DESIGNrev
- Adjust views and layer appearance for better understanding the data
- Overlay multiple layouts
- Fix DRC violations using DESIGNrev
- Interface DESIGNrev with other Mentor’s tools including Calibre DRC, LVS, DFM and RVE.
- Create a clips file
- Merge layouts
- Run Tcl scripts in batch mode.
- Install custom macros in the DESIGNrev GUI
Hands-On Labs
Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using the Calibre DESIGNrev layout viewer.
- Comparing Layouts Using Calibre DESIGNrev
- Adjusting Layer Appearance
- Assigning Layer Names That Match a Calibre Rule File
- Hiding Data
- Using Rulers and Grids
- Inspecting Clips Saved From an Earlier Session
- Create An Overlay of Two Layouts
- Fixing Width and Spacing Violations
- Running Calibre Verification
- Sharing Information With a Team
- Tracing Connectivity
- Writing Out the Layout Hierarchy
- Merging Layouts in Batch Mode
- Adding a Custom Macro to the GUI