SSoft is installed on the Sun workstations in the ECI lab and includes
the
software tools listed below. In order to setup your environment you
must
perform the following tasks.
Updating your login initialization
To conveniently access the software, you should add the following to
your
.cshrc if you are using csh or tcsh. Update the appropriate
initialization
script with that interpreter s language equivalent for the following
csh
directives.
% set path = ($path /eci/ssoft/bin)
The above adds the software binaries to your search path.
Alternatively, you
may invoke the software programs with the fully qualified search path
if
desired. This is much less convenient however. Normally, the program
will
discover where it is called from, and load any initialization files
based on
where the software was installed. In rare instances, you may wish to
override
this discovery process and force the install directory. The program
checks for an environment variable, SS_HOME, and if set, assumes
you wish to override the directory where the software really is, and
supersede
it with this new installation directory. This can also be used if for
some
reason, the program is failing to locate the installation directory.
These programs are licensed software, and they use a floating license
model.
The key file is both time and host locked. Multiple license server
hosts may
reside in a single key file. By default, applications will look in the
/license/keyfile for the license file. Usually, you will
place the
keyfile in some other place however. If you do, you must tell the
application
where the key file is so it may verify the license. To do so, set an
environment variable, SS_LICENSE_FILE, to the fully qualified path name
of the
keyfile. Add the following to your .cshrc.
% setenv SS_LICENSE_FILE /eci/ssoft/keys/ssoft.key
Tools
Slam-Edit
is an IC mask layout editor. The editor is a full featured editor
with all the standard commands expected in an editor. The editor does
provide
some unusual features not found in competitive products. The Editor's
performance on today's large databases stomps the competition. In very,
very
large designs, alternative systems such as Virtuoso can't even open
designs
that slam handles with ease.
Slam-View
is an IC mask layout viewing system capable of displaying mask data
on multiple X servers simultaneously. The product is an excellent tool
for
multiple campus design reviews. Installation is simple. Just unpack our
tar
file, update your search path to the installation bin path, start the
license
server and your ready to go. Pre-defined configuration files can have
you
reading your gds data in minutes. Get your eval copy today to see just
how fast
stream reading can be!
Scheture is
a schematic capture system. The feature set is limited at this time
but will be expanding rapidly. The package includes verilog and spice
translators as well as plotting. The schematic package can also
generate a
schematic from a spice or verilog netlist.
Secours is
our schematic driven layout product.
Strategy is
a combination of a floorplanning tool, PG Router and DEF editor.
Strategy can be used to front-end Place & Route products from
single or
multiple EDA vendors and to do post route edits in a more traditional
layout
editor style.
Verification
products include both DRC and LVS. The LVS product includes a
compare module to compare the extracted netlist to the reference
netlist. Both
products are integrated within the slam environment.
Slam-Plot adds plotting to the Slam system.
Slam-Plot
supports HP's PCL type
printers and HP's GL2 type plotters. Plotting is integrated within the
slam
environment allowing even multi-million device designs to be plotted in
minutes.
