Hi, mems designers, It is true that the library elements in MEMS Pro don't have much practical value for MEMS designers, but it is good for educational purpose. Besides this, MEMS Pro provides a lot features to enhance the practical designs, 1. Besides the well known features of L-edit for IC design, MEMS Pro L-edit has improved drawing functions of arbitrary curved features, which is very helpful to mems 'arbitrary' geometry drawing requirement. 2. MEMS Pro 3D Tool can generate 3D structure automatically from 2D layout based on your customized process steps. It has and cross section view on 3D structure at any 'cut' you want. 3. Besides the commercial foundry technology setups (ADIMEMS, Sandia ITT, MCNC MUMPs, MOSIS), it is very easy to set up your own layers and fabrication process and design rules. 4. For modeling purpose: (1) you can do FEA by interfacing with ANSYS (export the 3D structure to ANF format-ANSYS Native Format). You can further extract model parameters to build macro models for your device for system level simulation at much faster speed. (2) You can write C, C++ program to do the modeling of your device then use MEMS Pro T-Spice engine to do simulation (3) You can generate a table from experiments, and T-Spice can take in the data to do simulation. Just listed some. You are welcome to do evaluation of the tool by contacting (626)-792-3000 or visit our website http://www.tanner.com/eda Ying Xu MEMS Applications Engineer Tanner Research Inc. 2650 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 phone: (626)-792-3000 fax: (626)-432-5705 -----Original Message----- From: Yahong Yao [mailto:hhelen@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 22, 1999 9:50 PM To: MEMS@ISI.EDU Subject: L-edit as a MEMS design tool Hello everyone, I am going to use L-edit to design mask layout for MEMS. It seems very convenient to be used in IC layout because there are many standard devices regarding to microelectronics for instance, CMOS, FET, NPN and so on. What's the advantage to use it in MEMS? I think we can't use the standard cells because they are meaningless to MEMS, is that right? Any comments are greatly appreciated! Yahong ------------------------ Yahong Yao 705K University Village Columbia, MO 65203 Tel: (573)771-0382 Email:hhelen@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com