IC Compiler
Implementation
User Guide
Version D-2010.03, March 2010
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Contents
What’s New in This Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
Part I: IC Compiler Implementation Flow
1. Introduction to IC Compiler
Supported Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
IC Compiler Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
User Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Methodology Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Speeding Up the Basic Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
2. Working With IC Compiler
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Starting IC Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Entering icc_shell Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Choosing Menu Commands in GUI Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Interrupting or Terminating Command Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Opening and Closing the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Using Tcl Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Using Setup Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Exiting IC Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
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Getting Help in IC Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Getting Help on the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Finding Menu Commands and Dialog Boxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Viewing Man Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Displaying the List of Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Using Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Searching for Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16
Configuring the Help Browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17
Working With the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Using GUI Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19
Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
Status Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
View Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
Panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22
Working in the Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23
Working With the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24
Viewing the Session Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25
Viewing the History View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27
Previewing icc_shell Commands in Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28
Viewing the Physical Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29
Setting the Current Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30
Setting the Primary Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31
Setting GUI Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31
Reading and Saving Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32
Reading a Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33
Setting the Current Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-34
Saving Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-34
Saving Design Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-35
Closing Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-36
Saving or Discarding Design Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-37
Archiving Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-39
Using IC Compiler Command-Line Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-41
Using Wildcard Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43
Using Aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43
Listing and Rerunning Previously Entered Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-44
Reporting Memory Usage and Runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-44
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Redirecting and Appending Command Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-44
Checking the Syntax and Semantics of Your Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-45
Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-46
Running the Synopsys Syntax Checker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-46
Limitations of the Synopsys Syntax Checker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-48
Bytecode-Compiled Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49
TclPro Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49
Working With Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49
Listing the Licenses in Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-50
Getting Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-50
Enabling License Queuing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-51
Releasing Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52
Getting and Releasing Licenses in the GUI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52
Enabling Multicore Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-53
Configuring Multithreading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-53
Configuring Distributed Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-54
3. Preparing the Design
Setting Up the Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Setting Up the Logic Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Setting Up the Physical Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Creating a Milkyway Design Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Managing Milkyway Reference Libraries Using
Reference Control Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Updating Milkyway Libraries to the Latest Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Opening a Milkyway Design Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Reporting on a Milkyway Design Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Changing Physical Library Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Saving Physical Library Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Verifying Library Consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Reading the Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Reading a Design in Milkyway Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
Reading a Design in ASCII Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
Annotating the Physical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
Reading DEF Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
Reading Floorplan Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
