CDL: Circuit Description Language is a kind of
netlist, a description of an electronic circuit.
It is usually automatically generated from a
circuit schematic
A circuit diagram (wiring diagram, electrical diagram, elementary diagram, electronic schematic) is a graphical representation of an electrical circuit. A pictorial circuit diagram uses simple images of components, while a schematic diagram s ...
. It is used for
electronic circuit simulation and
layout versus schematic (LVS) checks. It is similar to
SPICE netlists, but with some extensions.
Several vendors such as
Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (stylized as cādence), headquartered in San Jose, California, is an American multinational corporation, multinational computational software company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc. The co ...
,
Mentor Graphics
Siemens EDA is a US-based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. Founded in 1981 as Mentor Graphics, the company was acquired by Siemens in ...
, and
Synopsys support CDL netlists, although their solutions may be proprietary and not readable by competing systems.
References
Electronic circuits
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