Advanced Design Course

Attend UPI and T-Cells training to gain productivity--and some free tools! Tanner's advanced training course on UPI programming, the L-Edit Pro programming interface, and T-Cells, L-Edit's parameterized cell capability, will make you more productive!

This training class takes you step-by-step through programming the UPI and creating T-Cells. Not just in theory, but in a hands-on workshop that shows you how to use UPI and T-Cells to automate layout tasks, create parameterized layout generators and perform special analyses.

Our two-day UPI and T-Cells course is divided between presentation and hands-on training exercises. Do you have specialized UPI or T-Cell questions? Our instructors are ready to address them in this unique class.

Materials Included with Course:

• Introductory programming manual, Absolute Beginner's Guide to C (2nd Edition). This book will be sent prior to the class so you can review basic C programming.
• UPI Macro Application Wizard Add-In for Visual Studio that makes setting up UPI macro projects a breeze.
• Visual Studio macros and Add-Ins to make you ultra productive, so you can concentrate on your design, not the design process.
• Advanced UPI Macros and T-Cells with source code that gives you a great starting point for turning your ideas into results.

Prerequisites

Advanced C programming topics will be covered during the course. Participants are expected to have the following basic knowledge of C programming:

• Basic C syntax
• Variables and basic data types
• Expressions and operators (+, -, /, &, |, &&, ||, etc.)
• if statements
• for loops

while loops Course Syllabus

Day 1: How to Create and Use UPI Macros

• Advanced C Review - Arrays, Pointers, Memory Allocations, and C Preprocessor.
• Creating Interpreted Macros
• Creating Compiled Macros
• Debugging UPI Macros
• UPI Specific Topics
  • UPI Data types
  • Binding Macros to Hot Keys and Menus
  • Creating multiple macros in one file
  • Getting User Input (using the UPI Dialogs)
  • Traversing object/cell/layer lists
  • Working with Technology Information

Day 2: Creating Parameterized Cells with T-Cells

• L-Comp - Layout composition functions
• UPI & T-Cells Advanced Topics:
  • Layout Generators
  • Running in Batch mode
  • Working with Derived Layers and DRC Rules
  • Properties