@@ -49,14 +49,16 @@ You will then be greeted with the main KLayout window:
4949![ Main window] ( klayout/klayout-main.png )
5050
5151
52- # Loading a GDS file
52+ # Using KLayout
53+
54+ ## Loading a GDS file
5355
5456You can open a GDS file by selecting ` File ` -> ` Open ` and selecting the GDS file you want to open. Select
5557the GDS file in the klayout subdirectory called 'sky130_fd_sc_hd__ inv_1.gds' and you will see the following:
5658
5759![ GDS file loaded with tech] ( klayout/klayout-load.png )
5860
59- # Layer palette
61+ ## Layer palette
6062
6163On the right, you should see the "Layers" palette. However, this includes a lot of layers that
6264are not used and are grayed out. To only show the layers that are used in the cell click,
@@ -68,14 +70,14 @@ If you double click on any layer, it will make it invisible. If you double click
6870make it visible. You can also select multiple layers by holding down the shift key and selecting
6971a range, or holding down the control key and selecting individual layers.
7072
71- # Sky130 Menu
73+ ## Sky130 Menu
7274
7375If the Sky130 technology files are properly loaded, you should see a menu called "Efabless sky130" with
7476the following contents:
7577
7678![ Sky130 menu] ( klayout/klayout-sky130-menu.png )
7779
78- ## 2.5D Viewer
80+ ### 2.5D Viewer
7981
8082The 2.5D viewer lets you look at and interact with a "3D" view of the layout:
8183
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ information. Note that commercial tools do not have this feature and it is only
8688really used for educational purposes.
8789
8890
89- ## Running DRC
91+ ### Running DRC
9092
9193
9294There are a few options for running DRC:
@@ -134,14 +136,14 @@ of the design rules.
134136
135137
136138
137- ## Running LVS
139+ ### Running LVS
138140
139141Make sure to uncheck the "scale" option in the LVS dialog box. Sky130 uses an
140142odd scale factor in the spice netlist of microns instead of meters. If you
141143don't uncheck this, the transistor sizes won't match and your LVS will fail.
142144
143145
144- # Closing crash
146+ ## Closing crash
145147
146148For some reason, on my Ubuntu machine, KLayout crashes when I close it. I get this window and must select "Cancel" to
147149fully exit out:
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