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Message started by Tommy on Jul 18^th, 2006, 7:13am

Title: How to import a spice netlist to schematic
Post by Tommy on Jul 18^th, 2006, 7:13am

How to import a spice netlist to schematic in cadence IC5.1.41?

Thanks
Tom

Title: Re: How to import a spice netlist to schematic
Post by bernd on Jul 18^th, 2006, 8:39am

The current possible ways are
1. CDL In; Command Interpreter Window (CIW) -> File -> Import -> CDL...
CDL is a Cadence proprietary format similar to Spice, mainly used for
the Schematic side for Layout versus Schematic checks.
2. Custom SKILL scripts.

But I recently posted a question to a similar forum which might be of interest
http://www.cdnusers.org/Forums/tabid/52/forumid/59/postid/1983/view/topic/Default.aspx
http://www.cdnusers.org/Articles/Download/tabid/188/Default.aspx?title=Spice%20in%20the%20Unified%20Analog%20Import%20Tool

Bernd

Title: Re: How to import a spice netlist to schematic
Post by jbdavid on Aug 3^rd, 2006, 3:37am

If you want to import it to layout you might look at a tool from Accelicon..
probably good enough for floorplanning purposes ..

Title: Re: How to import a spice netlist to schematic
Post by laker on Aug 7^th, 2006, 2:56pm

You may want to take a look at the Laker-ADP from Silicon Canvas, not only can it import SPICE/CDL/EDIF, it can generate a human readable schematic for further editing.
http://www.sicanvas.com

Title: Re: How to import a spice netlist to schematic
Post by Andrew Beckett on Aug 20^th, 2006, 3:57pm

File->Import->CDL can also generate a readable schematic.

In IC610, you'll also be able to import SPICE and spectre netlists (CDL is pretty SPICE-like anyway). See:

There's an article on this on http://www.cdnusers.org but the server is down at the moment so I can't give the exact link.

Regards,

Andrew.