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<TITLE>Magic-8.3 Command Reference</TITLE>
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<H2>readspice</H2>
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Read a SPICE netlist file and use the information from subcircuit definitions in the file to set port indexes.
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<H3>Usage:</H3>
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<B>readspice</B> <I>filename</I> <BR><BR>
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where <I>filename</I> is the path name of a SPICE netlist file containing one or more subcircuit definitions.
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<H3>Summary:</H3>
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The <B>readspice</B> command is used to ensure that port indexes on
port labels in a cell match the port order specified in an existing
SPICE netlist for that cell. This is generally used with standard
cell libraries to ensure that port order is maintained in cells that
are read from GDS or LEF, neither of which declares a port order.
It will also create ports from labels in the case where a file read
from GDS does not contain layers that are interpreted as ports by
the technology file's <B>cifinput</B> section.
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<H3>Implementation Notes:</H3>
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<B>readspice</B> is implemented as a Tcl procedure defined
in the GUI wrapper script. It is only available when the wrapper
is used, that is, when <B>magic</B> is invoked with argument <B>-w</B>,
although the script can be sourced from the runtime library.
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<H3>See Also:</H3>
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<A HREF=port.html><B>port</B></A> <BR>
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<P><I>Last updated:</I> May 28, 2020 at 11:46am <P>
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