CALMOS: A portable software system for the automatic and interactive layout of MOS/LSI

  • Authors:
  • Herman Beke;Willy Sansen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • DAC '79 Proceedings of the 16th Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

CALMOS (Computer Aided Layout of MOS) is a computer system for the layout of custom MOS/LSI circuits. Starting with a standard cell library and a simple circuit connectivity description, the program performs various automatic and/or interactive procedures such as initial placement, assignment of equivalent and equipotential pins, optimization of the placement, prerouting, routing, routing compression, fan in fan out and crosstalk verification and circuit verification. The database has reentrant properties such that a designer can step through the system and try out different possibilities. After each step the results are immediately available and can be compared with previous outputs. This on-line optimization avoids multiple rerunning of the task and will also yield a better chip minimization.