@Amro Tork @Farag Elsayed Pcells and layers for sky130 not visible inside klayout. Using volare to access pdk? Please suggest how to integrate sky130 with klayout.

@vks

File

->

Load Layer Properties

and select

$PDK_ROOT/$PDK/libs.tech/klayout/tech/sky130A.lyp

. If you still don’t see anything, right click in the

Layers

pane, unselect

Hide Empty Layers

@Mitch Bailey Using this option layers are visible only for that session. Need to import

.lyp

again when layout is opened again. How to make it default layers should be visible whenever klayout is opened.

@vks It's part of the PDK. I think @Farag Elsayed is back he could answer this. Unfortunately, we are off today.

Let me know if you figure that out, I have to reload every time.

@Amro Tork Please enjoy your holiday. We can continue tomorrow. I opened klayout with

open_pdks

using

KLAYOUT_HOME=$PDK_ROOT/$PDK/libs.tech/klayout klayout -e

and sky130 pcell library is visible now. Same was not with volare. But layers are still not visible automatically. Need to import them manually each time using

File

->

Load Layer Properties

We are back to work on Sunday

@vks You could use this script to install sky130 or GF180 technologies installed using volare. https://github.com/mabrains/klayout_tech

@Farag Elsayed Thanks for sharing.

No, You could use it anywhere. You will pass the Klayout folder you have or one I have shared as an input to the script as explained in README file. Path of klayout folder -->

$PDK_ROOT/$PDK/libs.tech/klayout

@Farag Elsayed I am able to invoke sky130 technology from inside klayout after running shared script. But finding few issues while trying to invoke devices from sky130 in klayout. Please suggest how to tackle these: 1. Only layer nos. are visible. Layer names only visible when .lyp file is imported using

File--> Load Layer Properties

2. Layout of several devices like cap_vpp, res_diff, res_metal, res_poly etc. not visible in klayout. A message appears in place of device layout. 3. Trying to instantiate via_gen gives as error shown in screentshot.

@vks After using installation script, I think you could select your technology as shown Once you have selected and double click on it, lyp file should be loaded. Related to pcells, it seems there are real issues in generators. I haven't tested it before. You could open issues for it to be solved in coming versions.

@Farag Elsayed Menus like gdsfactory, sky130pdk, gf180mcu pdk are not seen in my klayout interface after running script. Please check attached video.

@vks You could find same setup for sky130-LVS here. For DRC, we aren't the developers of it but you could find the rule deck here

LVS can be run using

run_lvs.py

script. How to run

sky130A_mr.drc

deck on gds and view results in Klayout ?