magic vlsi display units

[ashuembed]

Hi I am new to the Magic VLSI tool, the problem is that I opened magic by the command : magic but the units are displayed in microns, not in lambda. I googled a lot how to change it to lambda, but no luck.


In previous version of magic and in all tutorials it is showing lambda.

Please somebody tell me how to change it to lambda?
Thanks

 

[wwfeldman]

i'm familiar with microns

i'm familiar with various uses of Greek lower case and upper case lambda,
but not with lambda as a measurement of length.
please describe lambda as a measurement of length.

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see this:

An Introduction to the MAGIC VLSI Design Layout System
terpconnect.umd.edu/~newcomb/vlsi/magic_tut/Magic_x3.pdf

page 4 describes lambda

and this

Magic Tutorial #2: Basic Painting and Selection
bwrcs.eecs.berkeley.edu/Classes/IcBook/magic/tut2.html

there must be a tutorial 1, at least

my apologies for commenting before researching

 

[ThisIsNotSam]

this seems unnecessary. lambda rules are sooooo outdated.

 

[ashuembed]

Very grat thanks for reply, actually what I was telling that in previous versions of magic vlsi tool the layout window show units in 'lambda', you can see the image in magic website (http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/) i.e., http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/giffiles/magic_7_4_screen.gif

Please see the top-right corner, units are displayed in lambda.


but in mine the 8.3 it is showing microns not lambda


Please help me how to change this setting to show it to lambda not microns
thanks

 

[ashuembed]

Actually but everywhere in the tutorials, videos, etc only lambda units are used, so this micron creates confusion.
More over when I changed my technology to 1.2um tech so lambda is 0.6u

and created an inverter,

and after ext2spice i got this,

* SPICE3 file created from inverter.ext - technology: scmos
.option scale=0.6u
M1000 out in gnd Gnd nfet w=8 l=2
+ ad=56 pd=30 as=56 ps=30
M1001 out in vdd vdd pfet w=8 l=2
+ ad=56 pd=30 as=56 ps=30
C0 gnd Gnd 3.16fF
C1 in Gnd 4.06fF
C2 vdd Gnd 17.29fF


now if you look closely in the design the box on the poly(red) shows +2 +1 microns means the poly length is 2um but in the extracted spice netlist it is showing l=2 means l=2*scale(=0.6u)=1.2um

So what is this 'microns' showing ?? is it a bug ?? as it shows wrong dimentions, it is written microns but showing lambdas ???

Please tell me how to get the 'lambda' units back.
thanks in advance.
thanks

 

[srizbf]

Magic Developer TimEdwards indicated that it was changed to show micron and not lamda.
For scalableCMOS , he suggested some script modification.
see the 'magic mailing list' for suggestions.