MAX Layout Environment
MAX is an extremely fast, industrial strength, full-custom layout editor with the added benefit of a complete Tcl/Tk interface and API. MAX comes with continuous DRC, connectivity tracing, schematic cross-probing, wiring tool, extraction, schematic-driven layout, and more.
- Real-Time Interactive DRC and Connectivity Tracing
- Cross-Probing Between Layout and Schematic
- Schematic-Driven Layout (with MAX-LS)
- 50X Faster
MAX Data Sheet
What Is MAX? MAX is a full custom IC layout tool for hand-crafting silicon. MAX also has a complete programming interface via Tcl/Tk and a well-documented API. Whether you need full-custom layout, cell-assembly, chip-assembly or the ability to write your own generators, MAX is the tool to choose for your physical design needs.
MAX is equally at home in all aspects of physical design, from creating cells for a library, to interacting with place-and-route activities at the block-level, to assembling an entire chip. While MAX is powerful enough to handle the largest of chips, it's easy enough to use that designers will enjoy the view into the physical world it offers.
Who Should Be Interested in MAX?MAX is for ALL Designers who want to reach higher performance targets and need physical design capabilities.
MAX is for Physical Design Teams who need to view, manipulate, and understand what is going on with their place-and-route process.
MAX is for Integration Teams who need to efficiently manipulate large amounts of data during assembly and perform back-end analyses.
MAX has a number of features that make it the best choice for doing IC layout for high-performance, fast time-to-market designs.
Figure 1. MAX Layout Editor —view and edit the largest designs. MAX Features:
- Fastest Schematic Driven Layout System for any size IC.
- Continuous DRC, real-time feedback means mask designers don't need to waste time learning new design rules.
- Interactive connectivity always available.
- Interactive wiring tool with flylines to show connections.
- Generators for layout ranging from simple transistors and gates to large structures (e.g. SRAMs.)
- Hierarchical and incremental parasitic extraction.
- Reads/Writes LEF/DEF, and GDSII formats.
- Interfaces to industry standard DRC and LVS tools.
- Full customization and extensions via Tcl/Tk and a full API. - Usable out of the box, or customize as you wish. - Write interfaces to all the other tools in your design flow.
- Optimized for large databases.
- ASCII database for transportability and ease of use with other programs, scripts, and user's choice of revision control systems.
- SRAM Compiler Tool extension. Many other features too numerous to list.
- Available on Linux and Solaris platforms.
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