CVC

CVC: Circuit Validity Checker. Voltage aware ERC checker for CDL netlists.

Features

• Input netlist format is Calibre LVS CDL (Mentor, a Siemens business)
• Checks netlists with up to 4B devices (2^32).
• Power and device parameters from Microsoft Excel
• Hierarchical power files possible
• Ability to differentiate models by parameters
• Setup option to list models and power nets
• All rules are automated. No need to write rule files.
• Interactive netlist analyzer
• Script execution available
• Automatic subcircuit debug environment creation
• GUI to record error analyses results

Includes:
src: Source code for CVC
src_py: Source code for check_cvc, python/kivy program for checking results.
scripts: Auxillary programs, scripts, and macros for CVC
doc: Doxygen settings, codes for errors

Installation

Requirements:

• gcc 4.9.3
• python 2.7.10

The following are only required if making changes to the parser or compiling from github

• bison 3.3.2
• automake 1.16.1

GUI requirements:

• kivy 1.10.0
• pyinstaller 3.1.1 (for standalone check_cvc)

Should be able to install CVC after cloning the repo by:

1. autoreconf -vif
2. ./configure --disable-nls [--prefix=<install_directory>]
3. make
4. make install

If that doesn't work, try:

1. download tarball from release page https://github.com/d-m-bailey/cvc/releases.
2. extract
3. cd cvc-<version>
4. autoreconf -vif
5. ./configure --disable-nls [--prefix=<install_directory>]
6. make
7. make install

There have been problems compiling check_cvc on some Linux platfroms. If GUI check_cvc does not compile, try export SDL_VIDEO_X11_VISUALID=

If that still doesn't work, the check_cvc.py file in src_py can also be run via IDLE on PCs. Just transfer the *.log and *.error.gz files.

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/d-m-bailey/cvc/issues

Support

If you are having issues, please let us know. We have a mailing list located at: cvc@shuharisystem.com

License

The project is licensed under the GPLv3 license.