PAT2SPI(1)

🎀 pat2spi(1) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the CAO-VLSI Reference Manual moment 💖 this one is all about pat2spi, and yes it's giving translator main-character energy ✨

💅 NAME 💅

pat2spi — the PAT ALLIANCE format translator to Spice PWL format 🦋 no cap, that's literally the whole gig.

🌸 ORIGIN 🌸

This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France 🇫🇷✨

• Web: http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/
• E-mail: alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pat2spi [ -slope natural_value ] In_filename Out_filename

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So pat2spi is a translator from the ALLIANCE pattern format (.pat) to spice PWL format (.spi) 💫 it's lowkey iconic like that.

There's also an optional -slope parameter, and you can use it to specify the slope value in pico second 👑 yes bestie, pico second, exactly as written.

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

Converts adder4.pat using PWL commands and generates the file spice_pattern.spi — which could be used in a SPICE testbench, for example 😌✨

pat2spi -slope 100 adder4 spice_pattern

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

asimut(1), pat(5) — go read those too, bestie, iykyk 💜

💀 BUG REPORT 💀

This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory 🛠️ and they need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. fr fr, your input matters 🙈💖

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 source/version: ASIM/LIP6, dated May 23, 2004 — mwah 💋✨