An integrated tool for automation of custom IC design flow

This paper presents an integrated tool of several utilities for the automation of custom IC design flow. It has several features including EM Width and Current Calculator, Resistance Calculator, Database Manager and Abstract Checker. Database Manager has various interactive utilities named as Smart Hierarchy, Single Design Library Generator, Multiple tasks of design and verification with design library, cells and views (i.e. listing reference libraries, multi cell copier with desired views, extra cells and views information with deletion option), net tag information and deletion, ruler deletion etc. to make an IP ready for delivery. In addition, several bindkeys are also provided for automation of various designing tasks. Procedures are written in the Cadence SKILL language. Graphical user interfaces are developed in order to facilitate the designers to customize their design environment. This has been developed generically for various CMOS technologies.