PAT2SPI(1)

✨ PAT2SPI ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about the CAO-VLSI Reference Manual page for pat2spi 🎀 and honestly? it's giving "tiny tool, big slay" 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pat2spi — the PAT ALLIANCE format translator that turns your stuff into Spice PWL format, no cap 🦋

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🌈 ORIGIN 🌈

This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, which was developed by the ASIM team at the LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France 🇫🇷✨ (yes, the whole full name, we are being respectful, it's iconic)

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

like, they literally left their whole contact card in here because they WANT to hear from you 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pat2spi [ -slope natural_value ] In_filename Out_filename

so it's <cyan>pat2spi</cyan>, then optionally a -slope with a natural_value, then your input file, then your output file. two filenames, no notes, periodt 💖

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

pat2spi is a translator. that's it, that's the job. it takes the ALLIANCE pattern format (".pat") and turns it into spice PWL format (".spi") 🔥

and there's an optional slope parameter you can pass if you want to set the slope value — measured in pico second ⭐ because of course it is.

so: .pat in, .spi out, slope optional. main character energy from a two-line program fr fr 😭👑

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🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

bestie this one converts adder4.pat using PWL commands and generates the file spice_pattern.spi (which, and I quote the vibe here, could be used in a SPICE testbench for example 💅).

pat2spi -slope 100 adder4 spice_pattern

see how adder4 and spice_pattern are just there with no extension? yeah. that's the assignment. slay ✨

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• asimut(1)
• pat(5)

go read those too, iykyk 📚💖

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🙈 BUG REPORT 🙈

This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. 🫶

so like, if something's weird or the docs are mid, TELL THEM. they literally asked. constructive feedback is self care, bestie 💀✨

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and that's the whole page!! this one comes from the fine folks at ASIM/LIP6, dated May 23, 2004 🌸 (yes, a vintage queen, and she still eats) 💖🎀🦋