setupEM 0.1.3

Python tool for configuration of gds2palace workflow with GUI.

Create EM Simulation model from GDSII layout files

setupEM provides a graphical user interface (Qt based) to configured gds2palace workflow. gds2palace enables an RFIC FEM simulation workflow based on the Palace FEM solver by AWS.

Installation

To install the setupEM, activate the venv where you want to install.

Documentation for the gds2palace workflow assumes that you have created a Python venv named "palace" in ~/venv/palace and installed the modules there.

If you follow this, you would first activate the venv:

    source ~\venv\palace\bin\activate

and then install setupEM and dependencies via PyPI:

    pip install setupEM    

To upgrade to the latest version, do

    pip install setupEM --upgrade   

Missing libraries on installation

If you see this error message when trying to run setupEM:

qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin. qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.

you need to install additional Qt libraries:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xkb1 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-image0 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb-sync1 libxcb-xfixes0 libxcb-xinput0 libxcb-xv0 libxcb-util1 libxkbcommon-x11-0

Dependencies

This module also installs these dependencies: gds2palace PySide6