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ext2sim - convert hierarchical ext(5) extracted-circuit files to flat sim(5) files

SYNOPSIS

ext2sim [ -a aliasfile ] [ -l labelsfile ] [ -o simfile ] [ -A ] [ -B ] [ -F ] [ -L ] [ -t ] [ extcheck-options ] root

DESCRIPTION

Ext2sim will convert an extracted circuit from the hierarchical ext(5) representation produced by Magic to the flat sim(5) representation required by many simulation tools. The root of the tree to be extracted is the file root.ext; it and all the files it references are recursively flattened. The result is a single, flat representation of the circuit that is written to the file root.sim, a list of node aliases written to the file root.al, and a list of the locations of all nodenames in CIF format, suitable for plotting, to the file root.nodes. The file root.sim is suitable for use with programs such as crystal(1), esim(1), or sim2spice(1).

The following options are recognized:

-a aliasfile: Instead of leaving node aliases in the file root.al, leave it in aliasfile.
-l labelfile: Instead of leaving a CIF file with the locations of all node names in the file root.nodes, leave it in labelfile.
-o outfile: Instead of leaving output in the file root.sim, leave it in outfile.
-A: Don't produce the aliases file.
-B: Don't output transistor or node attributes in the .sim file. This option is necessary when preparing input for programs that don't know about attributes, such as sim2spice(1) (which is actually made obsolete by ext2spice(1), anyway), or rsim(1).
-F: Don't output nodes that aren't connected to fets (floating nodes).
-L: Don't produce the label file.
-tchar: Trim characters from node names when writing the output file. Char should be either "#" or "!". The option may be used twice if both characters are desired.

In addition, all of the options of extcheck(1) are accepted.

SCALING AND UNITS

If all of the .ext files in the tree read by ext2sim have the same geometrical scale (specified in the scale line in each .ext file), this scale is reflected through to the output, resulting in substantially smaller .sim files. Otherwise, the geometrical unit in the output .sim file is a centimicron.

Resistance and capacitance are always output in ohms and picofarads, respectively.

AUTHOR

Walter Scott

BUGS

Transistor gate capacitance is typically not included in node capacitances, as most analysis tools compute the gate capacitance directly from the gate area. The -c flag therefore provides a limit only on non-gate capacitance.