On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 3:42 PM David Lanzendörfer david.lanzendoerfer@o2s.ch wrote:
Hi folks So we need to approach the folks from CERN who design the KiCAD tool. What I would like to ask them is, whether they could take the code base of their PCB editor and hack it a bit, so that it can place and route VLSI designs as well. As far as I know KiCAD, it's actually already possible, by constraining the angles of the wires to 90 degrees and adding a grid lock for placement of components.
The design constraints one needs to pay attention to when routing PCBs and ICs are VERY different, though.
What is missing though, is the ability to load gds libraries and to export it into GDS/Magic/DEF. It would be cool to have KiCAD for drawing analog circuits and then generating a VLSI layout from it, where you can drag and drop your components accordingly and connect it like in a PCB.
It would be cool to have that in Cadence Virtuoso, actually. Haven't really seen that (schematic driven analog layout) at a useful level of functionality in the academic versions I got to play with so far.
And what Ferenc says in his response to this about parametric cells.
tatzelbrumm
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