Calibre TVF

This course will help you unleash the powers of TVF to make your SVRF files more compact, easier to maintain, and more powerful. Using several examples, you will learn how to incorporate TVF concepts into your SVRF files to make rule writing easier.

Detailed lab exercises help reinforce the lectures and provide you with extensive tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry expert instructors.

You will learn how to

• Create Compile Time and Runtime TVF SVRF files
• Use Calibre TVF to make SVRF files easier to maintain

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using Calibre TVF software. Hands-on lab topics include:

• Review of Tcl concepts
• Basic use of Runtime and Compile Time TVF rule files
• Using Compile Time TVF to create DRC rulechecks
• Using Runtime TVF to create TVF Functions
• Combining Runtime and Compile Time TVF

Audience

• Experienced IC Layout Engineers and Layout Verification specialists who will write, maintain, support, and optimize various DRC and LVS rule decks in their organization
• Experienced CAD Engineers and Managers who will be responsible for integration of the Calibre toolset in their design flow
• Experienced CAD specialists who interface with various foundries such as TSMC, UMC, Chartered, and integrate the rule decks supplied by these foundries into the verification flow
• Layout Verification specialists in foundries who are responsible for generating qualified rule decks in their various process offerings

Prerequisites

• Completion of the Calibre DRC/LVS class very highly recommended
• Thorough knowledge of IC Layout techniques and procedures
• Experience with an IC layout editing tool
• Familiarity with UNIX
• Good understanding of layout verification concepts and experience with layout verification tools
• Experience programming in any language. (Familiarity with Tcl is very helpful, but not absolutely required.)

Key Topics

• Review of Tcl Syntax and Concepts
• Using Runtime Calibre TVF
• Using Compile Time Calibre TVF
• Writing Compile Time TVF SVRF code
• Writing Runtime TVF SVRF code