Virtuoso Layout Design Basics

Length : 1 day

Course Description

In this course, you learn the basic techniques for working with designs in the Virtuoso® Layout Suite L environment. You learn to create and edit cell-level designs and to create and place instances to build hierarchy for custom physical designs. You explore the basics of the user interface and the user-interface assistants, which help you select, navigate, search, highlight, edit, and create physical designs.

You learn the fundamental methods of creating cells at the device level. You create rectangles, polygons, paths, wires, and cell instances, and you edit those shapes to meet design-rule specifications. You traverse the hierarchy to edit in place or descend into a cell by itself for editing.

You create new cells representing low-level cells, and you create a top-level block design using the skills you learned in earlier modules.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate with the user interface
• Use design assistants and workspaces
• Edit layout designs
• Use path stitching
• Edit the properties of objects
• Create a transistor manually to exercise the more common commands for creating and editing
• Create and edit a design-rule-correct layout by using design-rule-driven (DRD) editing
• Import and export data using the GDSII format
• Use the Library Manager for data management
• Use DRD (Design Rule Driven) creation and editing

Software Used in This Course

• Virtuoso Layout Suite L

Software Release(s)

• IC6.1.7

Modules in this Online Course

• About This Course
• The Design Environment
• Creating Basic Layout
• Basic and Advanced Layout Commands
• Design Rule Driven Editing
• Next Steps
• Optional labs A-1 and B-1 for creating basic geometries

Audience

• Analog/Mixed-Signal
• IC Designers
• IC Reticle/Wafer Designers
• Layout Designers
• Physical Layout Designers

Prerequisites

• You must have experience doing layout design
• Knowledge of the Unix or Linux Operating Systems

System Requirements for Online Courses

• For system requirements click here
• Cadence software as listed above installed and licensed

Related Courses

Please see course learning maps at this link for a visual representation of courses and course relationships. Regional course catalogs may be viewed here.