The Symlib Utilities is a package that includes small programs to convert and maintain Altair Engineering, Inc.'s Symlib files. Each Symlib file defines schematic symbol shapes for a set of netlist cells. Below is an index of the related documents.

Document Description

Symlib Format

This chapter describes the (ASCII based) format that is used to define custom schematic symbol shapes. The symlib data is stored in a symlib file, that is scanned by SpiceVision PRO.

Symlib Editor/Viewer

This chapter describes Symedit, a simple symbol editor program that displays the content of a Symlib file - and allows the user to modify and/or create graphical symbol shapes interactively.

cadence2symlib

This chapter describes cadence2symlib.il, a Skill script that exports symbol shapes from a Cadence library to the Symlib format.

slibconv

This chapter describes the slibconv utility to convert symbol libraries from the Synopsys slib format to the Symlib format.