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EXTCHECK(1)		     General Commands Manual		     EXTCHECK(1)

NAME
     extcheck - check hierarchical ext(5) files for global node connectivity and
     summarize number of fets, nodes, etc.

SYNOPSIS
     extcheck  [ -c cthresh ] [ -p path ] [ -r rthresh ] [ -s sym=value ] [ -C ]
     [ -R ] [ -S symfile ] [ -T tech ] root

DESCRIPTION
     Extcheck will read an extracted circuit in the hierarchical  ext(5)  repre-
     sentation	produced  by Magic, check to ensure that all global nodes (those
     to which a label ending in an exclamantion point  is  attached)  are  fully
     connected	in  the  layout, and then print a count of the number of various
     items (nodes, fets, etc) encountered while  flattening  the  circuit.   The
     root of the tree to be processed is the file root.ext; it and all the files
     it references are recursively flattened.

     The following options are recognized:

     -c cthresh
	    Set the capacitance threshold to cthresh femtofarads.  Extcheck will
	    count  the	number	of  explicit  internodal capacitors greater than
	    cthresh, the number of  nodes  whose  capacitance  is  greater  than
	    cthresh, as well as the total number of nodes.  (Other programs such
	    as ext2sim(1) use this option as a threshold value below which a ca-
	    pacitor  will  not	be output).  The default value for cthresh is 10
	    femtofarads.

     -p path
	    Normally, the path to search for .ext files is determined by looking
	    for path commands in first ~cad/lib/magic/sys/.magic, then ~/.magic,
	    then .magic in the current	directory.   If  -p  is  specified,  the
	    colon-separated  list  of  directories specified by path is used in-
	    stead.  Each of these directories is searched in turn for  the  .ext
	    files in a design.

     -r rthresh
	    Set  the  resistance threshold to rthresh ohms.  Similar in function
	    to -c, but for resistances.  The default value  for  rthresh  is  10
	    ohms.

     -s sym=value
	    It's possible to use special attributes attached to transistor gates
	    to	control  the  length and width of transistors explicitly, rather
	    than allowing them to be determined by the extractor.  These attrib-
	    utes are of the form ext:w=width^ or ext:l=length^, where  width  or
	    length can either be numeric, or textual.  (The trailing ``^'' indi-
	    cates  that these are transistor gate attributes).	If textual, they
	    are treated as symbols which can be assigned a numeric value at  the
	    time  ext2sim  is run.  The -s flag is used to assign numeric values
	    to symbols.  If a textual symbol appears in one of the above attrib-
	    utes, but isn't given a numeric value via -s (or -S below), then  it
	    is	ignored;  otherwise,  the transistor's length or width is set to
	    the numeric value defined for that symbol.	(This option is not cur-
	    rently used by extcheck, but it is common to  ext2sim(1)  and  other
	    tools that are written using the extflat(3) library)

     -C     Set  the capacitance threshold to infinity.  Because this avoids any
	    internodal capacitance processing, all tools will  run  faster  when
	    this flag is given.

     -R     Set the resistance threshold to infinity.

     -S symfile
	    Each  line	in  the file symfile is of the form sym=value, just like
	    the argument to the -s flag above; the lines are interpreted in  the
	    same  fashion.   (This option is not currently used by extcheck, but
	    it is common to ext2sim et. al.)

     -T tech
	    Set the technology in the output .sim file to tech.  This  overrides
	    any technology specified in the root .ext file.

SEE ALSO
     ext2dlys(1),  ext2sim(1),	ext2spice(1),  magic(1),  rsim(1), sim2spice(1),
     ext(5), sim(5)

AUTHOR
     Walter Scott

BUGS
     The -s mechanism is incomplete; it should allow quantities other than tran-
     sistor lengths and widths to be specified.

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