Assignment 3 (only for IC1)

  1. Do Flattening
    • Load IC1 gdsii file which you saved and flatten with the default flattening options.
    • Save the flattened design and take snapshots.

  2. What to turn in
    • A die snapshot after flattening. (Visibilities of cells, all metal layers and vias should be turned on)
    • A die snapshot which shows only cells (Turn on all visibilities except all 'Lx' layers such as L51 and L33)
    • A die snapshot which shows only metal layer 2 (Turn off all visibilities except 'L51' layer and 'metal 2(drw)' layer. Make sure that they have same color. If their colors are not same, change colors in 'Display Resource Editor'.)
    • A die snapshot which shows only metal layer 3 (Turn off all visibilities except 'L62' layer and 'metal 3(drw)' layer. Make sure that they have same color. If their colors are not same, change colors in 'Display Resource Editor'.)
    • Since the outlines of standard cells will always be shown in violet, use colors such as green, skyblue, etc for metal layers.

Assignment 4

Run DRC on IC1 and submit a hard copy of ic1.drc.summary file. This file is generated automatically after DRC is done. You may ignore any DRC error.