KIC(1ICD)

NAME
kic - graphics editor for layout of an IC mask set.

SYNOPSIS
kic [-g graphics] [-d device] [-s] [-L] [cell ...]

OPTIONS
One of the following options can be specified:

-g  <graphics> will be used as the graphics terminal name. Normally the environment variable TERM is used to obtain the graphics terminal name.

-d  <device> will be used as the device name. Normally stdin and stdout will be used as output device.

-s  If this flag is set, kic will not split its screen.

-L  If this flag is set the coordinate_space one can use is enlarged from 2E7 to 2E8. However the number of values between two coordinates is decreased from 100 to 10, resulting in e.g. a worse approximation of a circle.

DESCRIPTION
Kic is an interactive graphics program for laying out IC mask sets. Kic can handle a great variety of non-orthogonal mask geometries.
See the kic tutorial for more details.

AUTHORS
Giles Billingsley, Ken Keller

FILES
proj_dir/.dmrc	(input file)
proj_dir/layout/cell/box	(in/output file)
proj_dir/layout/cell/info	(in/output file)
proj_dir/layout/cell/mc	(in/output file)
proj_dir/layout/cell/term	(in/output file)
proj_dir/layout/cell/nor	(in/output file)

SEE ALSO
Giles Billingsley, Ken Keller, "KIC: A Graphics Editor for Integrated Circuits", University of California at Berkeley.

BUGS
The known bugs are listed in the kic tutorial.

NOTES
The wire geometry in kic is assumed to be a square-ended wire that extends a half wire-width beyond its endpoints.