An Integrated Development Environment for Robust Interoperable PDK Implementation

The shortage of integrated development environments (IDE) for interoperable process design kit (PDK) implementation motivated us to develop a code editor with extended functionalities. The modern editors and IDEs are largely non-optimal, as they do not provide PDK specific functionality and they are not embedded in the leading-edge electronic design automation (EDA) software tools. The presented IDE rEDActor addresses these problems and challenges and facilitates the effort required for PDK development. This paper explores the use of IDE rEDActor to improve and accelerate the contribution of PDK source code. The IDE helped to reduce development time of interoperable PDKs for 0.13 um and 0.25 um SiGe BiCMOS technologies.