Netgen: back on track

Following my mail on “Fedora Electronic Lab”, DenisLeroy got netgen back on track and it’s being reviewed. Hopefully, it may be on time for F8.

Netgen does LVS checks, i.e. it verifies the Layout against the Schematic. The layout is created with Magic while the Schematic with Xcircuit. Both Magic and Xcircuit includes the required mechanisms to extract netlists. Thus netgen can compares the netlists. The netlists could be either of sim or spice. I’ve explained both below.

Example of Usage:
This is a simple NOR i.e:

magic -d OGL nor.mag &	xcircuit nor2.ps &
ext ext2sim -R -C OR ext2spice -R -C	Netlists -> Write Sim OR Netlists -> Write Spice

$ netgen &

readnet sim nor readnet sim nor2 lvs nor nor2

readnet spice nor readnet spice nor2 lvs nor nor2

Result: Circuits match uniquely.
LVS Done.

“reinitialize” should be used to restart another LVS check

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