integrating OpenAcces

Has anybody I tried integrating OpenAccess (opensource version of
cadence Data base)?. I am planning to integrate it into Eclipse. Can
anybody share any experiences, it would help me a lot. Thanks.

 

What's Eclipse?

Probably you should go to the forums on the si2 web site. Especially
if you're an OpenAccess Coalition member.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

A programming environment. Quite popular for Java, less so for C++.

But what I wonder is what does it mean integrate OA with Eclipse.

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What I am trying to do here is trying to visualise IC design data
(layout) 3-D, using opensource tools, atlease researching on its
feasibility. Integrating it to Eclipse would be initial step, get a
basic platform to build on it. Hope I am clear about that!

-nav

 

You are talking programmer syntax in in a chip designer newsgroup.
(There are some CAD supporters here too who know more about
programming) You need to elaborate more on your final goals to get
helpful advices.

According to my limited experience with eclipse you will be wasting
your time. Instead stream the layout to gds and use gds2pov to
raytrace your layout. I have looked at signs, a verilog plugin for
eclipse, it looks cool, but I find eclipse a bit slow, and a layout
can be really process hungry to render in 3D. (How many capacitors
does 1Gb of DRAM have?, let alone sense-amps and bit/word lines?)

 

I've never heard about someone doing that. Eclipse doesn't seem the right
starting point to me.

Yours,

 

I think he wants to use the java3d package. If you look at electric
from www.staticfreesoft.com you will see that a 3d view of a layout
can be done inside a java tool and then just add the features from
java3d to render things in 3d.

Does OpenAccess have a java API at all? I know there is a python API
which would make it possible to use jython with eclipse and jython is
supposed to be as fast as java as it is really java programmed through
python, but how fast is really java? Electric is pure java and really
fast, but it is also programmed from ground up with assistance from
Sun. (Used to be a c-program)

 

Not that I know of.

For that to work, you'd first have to get a JNI binding for OA. The
existing Python one probably doesn't help (I've not looked at it).

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Thanks for the comments and suggestion. I know Eclipse would be pretty
slow to handle such a huge data. I am just investigating the
feasibility, which later would be part of my thesis.

jython was a news for me. I will check on that.

synopsis has released a viewer for oA, does anyone know if its a 3-d?
I couldn't find much on that in Si2.org

--nav

 

Get yourself a copy of the Qt gui toolkit from Trolltech.
Then draw in a QGLWidget using OpenGL for your 3D graphics.
If you're competent in C++ it should not be too difficult.