FE and FB view in physical design

[sree205]

Hi,
can someone tell me the difference between FE and FB view of physical IPs ? would it be possible to do a full flow using encounter or magma using only the FE(front end) view ?

 

[johnz]

backend view include lef, milkway, spice, cdl file for lvs, sometimes even has gds file.

eda tools cannot do physical design without backend view.

 

[shankarmit]

in FE flow you can go upto trail routing..

Its is used for silicon virtual prototyping...

u can analyse the chip power consumption,distribution.. and lot more


Regards
Shankar

 

[sree205]

Hi, is there a way i can get the FE view files for a memory ? I'd like to design a memory controller with the memory as a hardmacro and take it through the PD flow. Could anyone plz help me out?