Electric
Electric
is a sophisticated electrical CAD system that can handle many forms of
circuit design, including custom IC layout (ASICs), schematic drawing,
hardware description language specifications, and electro-mechanical
hybrid layout.
The system includes many tools for analyzing and synthesizing
circuitry.
Electric has an unusual way of doing integrated circuit (IC)
layout. The system considers integrated circuits to be composed of
nodes and arcs. Nodes are circuit elements such as transistors and
contacts. Arcs connect the nodes. This enables layout constraints to be
added to the arcs.
Features include:
- Design rule checking
- Electrical rule checking
- Simulation and simulation interface (many options)
- Generation (ROMs, PLAs, Pad Frames, etc.)
- Compaction
- Routing
- VHDL compilation
- Silicon compilation
- Network consistency checking (LVS)
- Logical Effort analysis
- Project Management
- Displays designs including:
- MOS (many CMOS and nMOS variations)
- Bipolar and BiCMOS
- Schematics and printed circuits
- Digital filters, Temporal logic
- Artwork
- Supports the following file formats
- CIF I/O
- GDS I/O
- EDIF I/O
- DXF I/O
- SUE Input
- VHDL I/O
- Verilog Output
- EAGLE, PADS, and ECAD Output
- PostScript, HPGL, and PNG output
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