Maybe the TSMC plugin is needed for this. The one indicated in the
program when you click Help->About Electric, then click Plugins and see
"Missing: Technologies (cmos90, tsmc180)".
The ChangeLog.txt in the source code of the repository hints that the
developers, like SMR, GVG, JKG, and DN, working on TSMC changes may have
this plugin:
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/electric/trunk/electric/ChangeLog.txt?view=markup
There is another hint in build.xml of electric-8.00.jar (at
http://mirrors.peers.community/mirrors/gnu/electric/ ) which has:
This suggests that the plugin file may have the filename: TSMC90.jar
I asked about the plugin back in 2015 [
https://www.mail-archive.com/electricvlsi@googlegroups.com/msg01026.html
], but I don't remember ever receiving a response back about how exactly
one could get it. So I can only guess that they are not sharing it
outside their development circle as it may be providing their paycheck.
If they are sharing outside their group, I suspect that it requires a
signed NDA (thus, why the source code for creating the plugin seems to
have been stripped from the public release).
On 8/10/2017 4:01 PM, a...@freedomphotonics.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
This is my first time posting to this group. I apologize if my
question has already been answered before.
I'm a longtime user of Electric VLSI and have fabricated many chips
through MOSIS using the SCMOS rules in the past when I was a student
under Dr. R. Jacob Baker.
I just updated my installation to the latest Electric version 9.07 and
noticed there's a new technology added, "photonics".
However I can't find any documentation on it or any discussion about
it in this Google Group. I also notice that it indicates the foundry
as TSMC so I'm extra curious now.
Is this a technology that can actually be fabricated with TSMC? When I
try to convert the technology to library for editing I get an
"Exception Caught" error.
Can anyone give me any additional information about this technology
such as its history and if it has been used for anything before? How
can it provided within Electric without any NDAs with TSMC?
I work at a photonics company now and it would be wonderful if I can
use Electric again to do some designs.
Thank you.
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