LEdit
Introduction
This document assumes that you have a working knowledge of using
LEdit, but not necessarily knowledge of its setup. Proper setup is crucial
to make extraction of netlists work.
Setup Files
If you run LEdit, you will probably have the following files, which specify
how the LEdit setup process proceeds. It will look for these files in the
directory specified by the environment variable TDBPATH, unless you specify
the full absolute path.
- setup.tdb
- LEdit's main setup file for running the program. This file determines
which derived layers are present, sets the environment, and many other
things. This is just a plain LEdit .tdb file that you can edit at will
from LEdit.
- setup.ext
- LEdit's extraction configuration file. This file is referred to during
the extraction of layout to netlist. It contains all of the
information to translate from the derived layers in LEdit, to
a netlist file.
- setup.xst
- LEdit's cross-section configuration file. This file is not directly used
by anything in the extraction process. It determines how LEdit will
generate a cross-section of a line in the layout. I have included
it in this list, because it uses derived layers also, and it is
important if you are modifying the derived layers not to disturb
those which this part of the program will use. I've learned this
from experience. (oops!)
What You Need To Do