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Magic
A veteran open-source VLSI layout editor with built-in interactive design rule checking, device extraction and a corner-stitched geometry database. It remains in active use for open PDK custom layout and standard cell work.
- Also known as
- Magic VLSI
- Type
- Tool
- Domain
- EDA Tools & Flows, EDA industry
Notes
Created at UC Berkeley in the 1980s and kept alive largely through Tim Edwards's maintenance and the open PDK movement.
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