MAGIC LAYOUT

Current distribution version 8.3.464

Precompiled for 64b 22.04 Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based Linux. It's also tested on a light-weight Ubuntu-variant LXLE distro. If you are interested in compiling from the source, instructions in Compiling and Installing Magic should help.

Magic is the most popular open-source Layout tool written in the 1980's at Berkeley by John Ousterhout (now famous for writing scripting languuage Tcl) and now maintained by Tim Edwards (opencircuitdesign.com/magic).

Table of Content

• Downloading & Setting Up Magic
• Quick Start Guide

Downloading & Setting Up Magic

• Change directory cd to install directory <INSTALL_DIR> e.g. /home/user/cad

• To download from the git repository:

  • git clone https://github.com/silicon-vlsi-org/eda-magic

• Change directory to the installed magic directory eg. cd eda-magic

• Checkout the desired version: git checkout v8.3.464

  • To make sure you are on the right version type git branch and your output should have a line like this :
  • * (HEAD detached at v8.3.464)

• Add the following environment variables in your ~/.bashrc (NOTE: The path below is an example, make sure it matches your particular path)

export MAGIC_HOME=<INSTALL_DIR>/eda-magic/glnxa64
export CAD_ROOT=$MAGIC_HOME/lib
export PATH=$PATH:$MAGIC_HOME/bin

Quick Start Guide

Few examples are in the examples folder to quickly get you started.

Release History

• v8.3.464:
  • Magic v8.3.464 for Ubuntu 22.04
  • Magic v8.3.274 for CentOS 7.9 (Core)
  • Compiled on linode VM running Ubuntu 22.04 kernel 5.15.0-100-generic #110-Ubuntu 03/10/24
• v8.3.178:
  • Magic v8.3.178 for Ubuntu 18.04
  • Compiled on Linux AWS Lightsail 5.4.0-1049-aws #51~18.04.1-Ubuntu

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