Triggers in Calibre are functions which are executed at specific times in a workflow to aids designers in automating the physical verification flow and decrease the need for interaction during the flow. Triggers can be external (executes before or after Calibre Interactive) or internal (executes before or after a Calibre run). This article discusses how triggers are configured for Calibre.
This artice discusses how to filter elements from the layout or the source netlists such that they get ignored during LVS. This is commonly used to exclude dummy layout devices, filler cells or decoupling cells that would otherwise cause missing instance LVS errors.
Calibre provides XOR through the DRC verification option to compare two layout cells in Tanner tools. There are two layout comparison flows through the Calibre DRC integration, FastXOR and XOR. This technote will go over the Layout vs Layout techniques when running not using FASTXOR.
RVE (result viewing environment) offers powerful features in design error analysis and debugging. Calibre RVE net highlighting features are demonstrated in conjunction with L-Edit.
If you have an issue accessing the Help menu in Calibre, this technical note discusses how to fix the issue.
Calibre RealTime is a new feature in L-Edit to detect and fix DRC errors on the go using Calibre's powerful physical verification engine. This video shows how to use this new feature and how to set it up with keyboard shortcuts.
The default setting in Calibre PEX is to use the layout pin order. If this causes a mismatch in your flow, you can make Calibre PEX use the schematic’s pin order instead, or other sources.
Automate the loading of Calibre runsets both standalone, or from L-Edit.
In mixed operating system setups, where some tools are on a Windows machine and others on a Linux machine, it is important to establish a communication link between these two systems to enable integration. This note shall guide you on how to set up this link.
