Array

These tools enable a designer to quickly chop and modify existing instance arrays. The modifying region can be defined by a rectangle, polygon, or another shape.

Bus Routing

The bus routing tools are one of the largest groups in SkillCad, since bus creation and modification is one of the most time- consuming tasks in custom layout design.

Calculation and Measurement

This is a group of tools that facilitate and simplify common measuring tasks, such as distance, area, and perimeter measurements.

Connecting Metal To Devices

This is a set of tools for easily connecting metal to multi-contact MOS devices. Tools are included to connect:Sources and/or drains to backbone metal.

Density Check

The density checking tools facilitate the measurement of specified layer densities in a defined region. The regions can be defined by: Polygons, Rectangles, Coordinates, Selected regions.

Device Placement

These tools simplify the tedious tasks of placing and modifying the placements of matched devices arrays.

Metal Path and Path Segment

The metal path and path segment (wire) tools are designed to simplify and automate the creation and connection of single metal routes.

Metal Coloring

This is a collection of tools to simplify the generation of complementary metal routes, used to maximize routing area utilization in advanced, sub-micron processes.

Multi-part Path and Guardring

The multi-part path tools simplify and automate the creation of paths and rings containing multiple layers joined by contacts and/or metal vias.

Net

The net tools simplify the selection and highlighting of metal nets, through all levels of hierarchy.

Pin

The pin tools simplify and automate time-consuming layout processes such as: Aligning pins to a Boundary.

Shape Handling

The shape handling tools contain routine shape conversion tools, as well as advanced shape creation tools such as: Copying shapes from a background view to the current view.

Density Check

The density checking tools facilitate the measurement of specified layer densities in a defined region. The regions can be defined by: Polygons, Rectangles, Coordinates, Selected regions.

Device Placement

These tools simplify the tedious tasks of placing and modifying the placements of matched devices arrays.

Dummy Fill

This is a set of tools to simplify the creation of dummy fill in a layout design. The fill shapes can be created in: A defined area, A selected region, Under a specified layer.

Flat Panel Layout

The flat panel layout tools were designed specifically for the rigors of flat panel design. Since metal routing is a major concern of flat panel layout.

Label

The label tools contain applications to create and re-create labels on various layout objects.

Layer Handling

This group of tools is useful for viewing and identifying layers in a layout view.

Pin

The pin tools simplify and automate time-consuming layout processes such as: Aligning pins to a Boundary.

Shape Handling

The shape handling tools contain routine shape conversion tools, as well as advanced shape creation tools such as: Copying shapes from a background view to the current view.

Slotted Metal

The slotted metal tools simplify and automate the creation and modification of wide slotted metals.

Track Routing

The track routing tools automate the creation of metal track routing, used in advanced manufacturing processes.

Via

The via tools contain applications to simplify and automate common via operations such as creating and modifying via arrays.

Viewing

The viewing tools are designed to help the layout designer see circuit blocks in ways different from the standard layout window.