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Subject: Mentor's CellBuilder On SPICE Libs To Make Synopsys Power Libs
> I am using an ASIC library (.35um) that does not currently contain any
> internal cell power data. I have SPICE netlists for each cell and would
> like to run HSPICE to get the power data. Has anyone done this that
> would be willing to share his/her scripts to automate the procedure. I
> am not totally clear on how Synopsys wants the data formatted and would
> really hate to write a parser myself.
>
> - Eugene Grayver
> UCLA
From: Magnus Soderberg <soderber@prinsen.quark.lu.se>
You may want to check with Mentor Graphics about their CellBuilder. It
probably does what you want. It does characterize for power, but exactly
into what formats I don't know, however writing a small script to translate
from a to b when the simulation is done shouldn't be too difficult (at least
when compared to writing scripts to automate simulation over temperature,
voltage, process, load and slew-rate). Commercial pricing is probably a
bit, shall we say prohibitive, but at least here in Scandinavia they have
very reasonable license fees for academic institutions and the same should
apply in the USA.
- Magnus Söderberg
Lunds Universitet Lund, Sweden
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