Design Viewpoint

By using Design Architect, we can create designs which will be used by different applications, for example,  QuickSim will simulate the design, IC will place layout for the design. Although the different application's object is the same one created from Design Architect, their requested information is different between each other. It can be explained that these applications deal with the design object with different viewpoint. QuickSim has its own viewpoint (default), lvs (Layout Vs. Schematic) has its viewpoint too. These two viewpoints are different because the focused information is different. Just like a person, who is a teacher to his students, a father for to his daughter and a son to his parents. We need to create different viewpoints for different applications. After back annotation, the design object will include the information from different viewpoints.

[ VLSI EE415 Lab1 Assignment ]