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PROGRAM:

NAME

ext2spice - convert hierarchical ext(5) extracted-circuit files to flat spice files

SYNOPSIS

ext2spice [ -B ] [ extcheck-options ] [ -M|m ] [ -y num ] [ -f hspice|spice3|spice2 ] [ -J
hier|flat ] [ -j device:sdRclass[/subRclass]/defaultSubstrate ] root

DESCRIPTION

Ext2spice will convert an extracted circuit from the hierarchical ext(5) representation
produced by Magic to a flat spice file which can be accepted by spice2, spice3, hspice and
other simulation tools. The root of the tree to be extracted is the file root.ext; it and
all the files it references are recursively flattened. The result is a single, flat
representation of the circuit that is written to the file root.spice .

The following options are recognized:

-o outfile
Instead of leaving output in the file root.spice, leave it in outfile.

-B Don't output transistor or node attributes in the spice file. Usually the
attributes of a node or a device are output as special comments **fetattr and
**nodeatrr which can be processed further to create things such a initial
conditions etc.

-F Don't output nodes that aren't connected to fets (floating nodes). Normally
capacitance from these nodes is output with the comment **FLOATING attached on
the same line.

-tchar Trim characters from node names when writing the output file. Char should be
either "#" or "!". The option may be used twice if both characters are desired.
Trimming "#" and "!" is enabled by default when the format is hspice.

-M|m Merge parallel fets. -m means conservative merging of fets that have equal
widths only (usefull with hspice format multiplier if delta W effects need to be
taken care of). -M means aggresive merging: the fets are merged if they have the
same terminals and the same length.

-y num Select the precision for outputing capacitors. The default is 1 which means that
the capacitors will be printed to a precision of .1 fF.

-f hspice|spice2|spice3
Select the output format. Spice3 is the the format understood by the latest
version of berkeley spice. Node names have the same names as they would in a
sim(5) file and no special constructs are used. Spice2 is the format understood
by the older version of spice (which usually has better convergence). Node names
are numbers and a dictionary of number and corresponding node is output in the
end. HSPICE is a format understood by meta-software's hspice and other
commercial tools. In this format node names cannot be longer than 15 characters
long (blame the fortran code): so if a hierarchical node name is longer it is
truncated to something like x1234/name where x1234 is an alias of the normal
node hierarchical prefix and name its hierarchical postfix (a dictionary mapping
prefixes to real hierarchical paths is output at the end of the spice file). If
the node name is still longer than 15 characters long (again blame the fortran
code) it is translated to something like z@1234 and the equivalent name is
output as a comment. In addition since hspice supports scaling and multipliers
so the output dimensions are in lambdas and if parallel fets are merged the
hspice construct M is used.

-J hier|flat
Select the source/drain area and perimeter extraction algorithm. If hier is
selected then the areas and perimeters are extracted only within each subcell.
For each fet in a subcell the area and perimeter of its source and drain within
this subcell are output. If two or more fets share a source/drain node then the
total area and perimeter will be output in only one of them and the other will
have 0. If flat is selected the same rules apply only that the scope of search
for area and perimeter is the whole netlist. In general flat (which is the
default) will give accurate results (it will take into account shared
sources/drains) but hier is provided for backwards compatibility with version
6.4.5. On top of this selection you can individually control how a terminal of a
specific fet will be extracted if you put a source/drain attribute. ext:aph
makes the extraction for that specific terminal hierarchical and ext:apf makes
the extraction flat (see the magic tutorial about attaching attribute labels).
Additionaly to ease extraction of bipolar transistors the gate attribute ext:aps
forces the output of the substrate area and perimeter for a specific fet (in
flat mode only).

-j device:sdRclass[/subRclass]/defaultSubstrate
Gives ext2sim information about the source/drain resistance class of the fet
type device. Makes device to have sdRclass source drain resistance class,
subRclass substrate (well) resistance class and the node named defaultSubstrate
as its default substrate. The defaults are nfet:0/Gnd and pfet:1/6/Vdd which
correspond to the MOSIS technology file but things might vary in your site. Ask
your local cad administrator.

The way the extraction of node area and perimeter works in magic the total area and
perimeter of the source/drain junction is summed up on a single node. That is why all the
junction areas and perimeters are summed up on a single node (this should not affect
simulation results however).

Special care must be taken when the substrate of a fet is tied to a node other than the
default substrate (eg in a bootstraping charge pump). To get the correct substrate info
in these cases the fet(s) with separate wells should be in their own separate subcell with
ext:aph attributes attached to their sensitive terminals (also all the transistors which
share sensistive terminals with these should be in another subcell with the same
attributes).

In addition, all of the options of extcheck(1) are accepted.

The awk filter spice2sim is provided with the current distribution for debugging purposes.

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