EEC 116—Magic Tutorials

When a tutorial tells you to edit a magic file, copy it from the directory /software/magic/lib/magic/tutorial/ to your local working directory so you can edit it.

To copy all the tutorials to your home directory, first make a folder to contain all the files, copy the files to this folder, then make the files writeable. For example:

mkdir ~/magic
cd ~/magic
cp /software/magic/lib/magic/tutorial/tut*.mag . (you must include the final period)
chmod +w tut*.mag

You could also copy files one at a time with a command like: cp /software/magic/lib/magic/tutorial/tut1.mag .

We will make several small changes to the magic tutorial procedures. They are:

Make labels only as "points" meaning small "+" shapes and never covering a larger region. This avoids some problems.
Never use global labels! (labels ending in "!".) They are described in tutorial #2.
Ignore any text struck out in red font.

Tutorial Errata	Changes between Magic 7.1 and Magic 7.4
Magic Tutorial #1	Getting Started
Magic Tutorial #2	Basic Painting and Selection
Magic Tutorial #3	Advanced Painting (Wiring and Plowing)
Magic Tutorial #4	Cell Hierarchies
Magic Tutorial #5	Multiple Windows
Magic Tutorial #6	Design-Rule Checking
Magic Tutorial #7	Not used in 116: Netlists and Routing
Magic Tutorial #8	Circuit Extraction
Magic Tutorial #9	Not used in 116: Format Conversion for CIF and Calma
Magic Tutorial #10	Not used in 116: The Interactive Router
Magic Tutorial #11	Reference: Using IRSIM and RSIM with Magic Only "getnode" in Section 4 is relevant for EEC 116. It is described on the Magic Tips webpage.
Magic Tcl Tutorial #1	Not used in 116: Introduction
Magic Tcl Tutorial #4	Not used in 116: Simulation with IRSIM

Official magic links

EEC 116 | B. Baas | ECE Dept. | UC Davis

2005/04/08  Written
2005/04/21  Added TCL tutorials
2006/05/06  Updated for Spring 2006
2013/10/03  Marked five tutorials as not used in 116
2013/10/08  Added notes about copying .mag files
2016/09/30  Updated paths to /software/...
2017/01/15  Integrated tutorial versions with red struck out font
2017/01/16  Tutorial #11 now optional reference
2018/10/03  Updated tutorial 3, removed "plowing"
2018/10/22  Moved official magic links here
2019/10/22  Added note re Section 4 in Tutorial 11
2020/10/09  Added note
2023/10/17  Un-grayed out description of Tutorial 11