Item 'Goftrace Schematics' is one of the ways to
launch GofTrace
Item 'GofCall, APIs Interactive' is to run
Netlist Processing APIs in interactive mode. Check
GocCall Netlist Processing APIs for detail.
Item RTL-to-Netlist Matching is for mapping
net in Gtech to netlist.
Item 'Timing violations process' is to do timing ECO.
Item 'SDF' is to create index for SDF file and load SDF index file. When SDF file is large, indexing the file first and load in the index file will be much faster.
Item 'Synthesis Library' is to load synthesis library file. The file is required in
module area calculation. The Synthesis Library File should have area information.
Item 'PDEF/DEF' is useful in postlayout netlist ECO. The gates position information is very helpful to select spare cells. And it can provide a clue to fix timing violations. You can load multiple PDEF file one by one. PDEF can be in .gz format.
Item 'Spare cells' is to create spare cells file and load spare cells file which is used in
metalonly ECO.
