T-engine™ Transistor-Level Schematic Generator

The T-engine is an extension to the Nlview™ software.

The Nlview™ basic engines automatically generate schematics at the gate, register-transfer, block and system level. With the T-engine option, Concept Engineering provides advanced visualization technology to EDA tool developers who develop tools for the transistor-level. When integrated with EDA tools, Concept Engineering's T-engine helps designers of electronic integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs) to visualize such critical information as circuit structure, parasitic components, timing data and signal values at the transistor level, so they can more easily and accurate tune designs for maximum performance. T-engine also makes it easier to understand output results of cell and IP-block characterization tools.

Transistor-Level Algorithms

In response to demand from the electronic design automation (EDA) and the semiconductor industries, Concept Engineering has developed completely new transistor-level algorithms that generate easy-to-read schematics. T-engine recognizes common device-level circuit patterns, and can detect and analyze serial/parallel circuit paths. It also can perform current flow analysis (i.e., power-to-ground flow) and logic flow analysis including both left-to-right flow and reverse-flow detection for feedback. In addition, T-engine uses new place-and-route techniques developed by Concept Engineering. As a result T-engine is able to produce clean transistor-level schematics for complex transistor designs. In addition Concept Engineering's new schematic engine also supports a mix of transistor-level technology with gate-level or block-level technologies in a single schematic diagram.

Availability

Concept Engineering's automatic transistor-level schematic generation engine is available as an optional engine to the Nlview Widget Product Family.

At a Glance

Features	Benefits
Simple and robust API	Ensures easy integration and reliable applications
Production-proven software components	Performance and quality of application is very high
Highly customizable component	Widget and application fit together
Tcl/Tk, Java, MFC and ActiveX components	Easily fits into your existing software development flow
Proprietary algorithms	Result in easy-to-read schematics and short response times
On-the-fly schematic creation	Results in very high speed and capacity
Bi-directional communication between widget and application	Allows interaction with the application (e.g. cross-probing, highlighting, attribute display, ballooning)
Incremental schematic viewing	Allows interactive modification of schematic fragments
Windows and UNIX platform support	Application will work on most hardware platforms
Built-in transistor and device-level symbols	Application works without symbol libraries
Symbol translation tools	Provide access to existing symbol libraries

Widest Platform Availability

GUI Platform	Tcl/TK	Java	MFC	Qt	Perl/Tk	wxWidget
Supported GUI environment	Tcl/Tk 8.0 or later	JDK 1 or Java 2	Microsoft Foundation Classes	Nokia's Qt Framework	Perl/Tk	wxWidgets 2.4.2 or later
Available as	Tk Widget	Component (AWT) JComponent (Swing)	Class derived from CWnd	Class derived from QWidget	Perl/Tk Widget	Class derived from wxWindow
Deliverable	Tcl package Loadable extension	Java Bean	MFC Extension DLL and Sources + Core Lib	Sources + Core Lib	Perl Package and Sources + Core Lib	Sources + Core Lib
Customizable by	Configure Options Property Command	Java Bean Properties Property Command	Class Attributes Property Command	Qt Properties	Configure Options	Property Command
API Interface	Tcl Commands and Callbacks	Component Methods and Event-Listeners	Class Methods and Notification Messages	Class Methods and Signals / Slots	Tk Commands and Callbacks	Class Methods and Notification Messages
Printing	PostScript, PDF, SVG and Native Windows	PostScript, PDF, SVG and Native Java	PostScript, PDF, SVG and Native Windows	PostScript, PDF, SVG and Native Qt	PostScript, PDF, SVG	PostScript, PDF, SVG and Native wxWidgets

Datasheet

Click here to get a PDF file of our T-engine datasheet.