OLC Stock Answers Master Index 4. A Description of Available Software 10. With Magic, you use a color graphics display and a mouse or graphics tablet to design basic cells and to combine them hierarchically into larger structures.
Magic is more than just a color painting tool.
It understands quite a bit about the nature of circuits and uses this information to provide you with additional operations. Magic continuously checks for layout rule violations. It knows avout connectivity and transistors, and contains a built-in hierarchical circuit extractor. Magic also has a plow operation that you can use to stretch or compact cells. Lastly, Magic has routing tools that you can use to make the global interconnections in your circuits.