Xschem slides [PDF version]

[Video] Xschem FSiC2022 presentation

All in one pdf documentation (repo.hu, github, sourceforge version with autoconfig)

INDEX

1. What is XSCHEM
2. Install XSCHEM
3. Run XSCHEM
4. XSCHEM elements
5. Symbols
6. XSCHEM properties
7. Component instantiation
8. Symbol properties syntax
9. Component properties syntax
10. Creating a circuit schematic
11. Creating symbols
12. Component parameters
13. More info on creating a parametric subcircuit
14. Editor commands
15. Netlisting
16. Net Probes
17. Simulation
18. Viewing simulation data with XSCHEM
19. Developer Info, XSCHEM file format specification
20. XSCHEM remote interface specification

TUTORIALS

• Step by step instructions: Install XSCHEM
• Run a simulation with XSCHEM
• Create a symbol and use an existing subcircuit netlist
• Instance based selection of symbol implementation
• Symbol and Schematic generators (aka Pcells)
• Create a symbol with XSCHEM
• Manage XSCHEM design libraries / symbol librares
• Use bus / vector notation for signal bundles / arrays of instances
• Backannotation of Ngspice simulation data into xschem
• Use symgen.awk to create symbols from 'djboxsym' compatible text files
• Translate GEDA gschem/lepton-schematic schematics and symbols to xschem.
• Xschem Google-Skywater 130n (Sky130) process integration
• [Video] Install Xschem, Xschem_sky130, skywater-pdk and ngspice: step by step instructions
• [Video] Second version, Install Xschem and open_pdks for skywater 130 design
• [Video] Editing commands and simulation
• [Video] Work on different projects in one running Xschem instance
• [Video] Editing component attributes
• [Video] Copying objects across xschem windows
• [Video] Symbols with inherited connections
• [Video] Search / replace function
• [Video] Visualize differences between two schematics with xschem
• [Video] How to stretch objects
• [Video] Parameters in subcircuits
• [Video] Create pins from net labels, fix grid align issues, wires
• [Video] Link documentation to components/symbols
• [Video] Use rawtovcd to show ngspice waveforms in gtkwave
• [Video] Run a Verilog simulation with XSCHEM and icarus Verilog
• [Video] See logic propagation of nets live in xschem without using a backend simulator
• [Video] View Ngspice/Xyce simulation data inside XSCHEM
• [Video] Live annotation of simulation values into the schematic
• [Video] Setting up a Xyce simulation, viewing results and doing math on graphs
• [Video] Probe xschem nets into the GAW waveform viewer
• [Video] Probe xschem nets into the BESPICE waveform viewer
• [Video] Creating a symbol
• [Video] Instantiating schematics instead of symbols (LCC, Local Custom Cell)
• [Video] Using more schematic views of a symbol to do simulation at different abstraction levels
• [Video] Let components display the name of the net attached to their pins
• [Video] New editing commands on shapes, polygons and bezier curves.
• [Video] New user friendly 'click and drag' interface
• [Video] Simulate the same circuit with different simulators, SPICE, Verilog, VHDL
• [Video] Ngspice / Verilog-A cosimulation

FAQ

• Common questions about XSCHEM
• Graphic performance considerations