What library characterization tool do you recommend?

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Library characterization

What charaterization tool do you recomand?
Star-MTB looks old and with lack of documentation.
Circuit-semantics maybe?
 

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I also want to ask a simple question:Can anybody tell me what is library characterization?
 

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In a few words, characterization of a library of asic cells is the process of building timing/power informations in a standard format (lib, tlf, verilog) starting from spice netlist.
 

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But,doesn't the foundry provide these informations such as timing/power? I know the .lib contains the power and delay for standard cells.
 

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Yes, but what if you are "the foundry"? You have to use some tool for build these libraries.
 

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Oh,I see. Can you use HSPICE to do library characterization?
 

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HSpice and SmartSpice are some of the spice tools that contain useful commands for characterization. There are also tools that automate the entire characterization process.
 

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Can anybody share documentation or book about Library characterization?
Or can anybody share your in-house's Library characterization program?
 

Library characterization

DynaCell is a characterize tool of Circuit Semantics(CSI), you may use it to do library characterization. Hspice can do this job as well, but you should write a good script to simplify ur manully work. perl script is a solution, as well as Tcl.

a vendor used to say to me, some characterization tool is only a huge script.
 

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Maybe you can check Zenasis's ZenCell:
**broken link removed**
 

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