Efficient Layout Design Tips: Adding Contact to Metal 1 Layer

2. Lesson One • Start doing DRC before you get too far with your layout

3. Here is how you add contact to the poly layer from Metal 1 • Type pc in the layout window

4. Here is how you undo something • Type the following command in the layout windo

5. Change Grid

6. Use Select Filter to limit what you select

7. Here is how to find the Setup Filter

8. A list of commands

9. How to add a port

10. You usually have to find the LVS src.net

11. When you prep a schematic for a layout, you will produce an SDL view as well as the src.net

13. Horrible things can happen when you unsave a cell…

14. Step 1: Click on the port

15. Step 2 • Use the space bar to step through different metal layers

16. Step 3 • Add text label

18. Solution: Change XOR name

19. Unselect all