Monata Documentation¶

Monata is a lightweight EDA framework for circuit design. It organizes designs with a Library/Cell/View hierarchy, runs simulations through selected SPICE backends, and connects results to measurements, specs, sweeps, corners, Monte Carlo, and optimization.

This documentation is organized by role:

Getting Started¶

Start here if you want a short path from installation to a first simulation.

User Guide¶

The user guide is the main Monata workflow:

organize projects, libraries, cells, and views
author schematic and testbench views
attach technology models and choose a simulator backend
run SimTask objects with executors
evaluate results with measurements and specs
run sweeps, corners, Monte Carlo, and optimization

Toolchain¶

Toolchain pages explain the external tools behind Monata’s current and planned backend work. The current native milestone is ngspice subprocess execution with explicit OpenVAF/OSDI model preparation; other simulators are deferred roadmap items. Public Monata releases recommend asking a skill-aware coding agent to use the public lizhangmai/skills monata-sim-env and conda-build skills, build or reuse a user-owned local conda channel, then consume that channel from pixi instead of shipping private third-party binaries.

Reference¶

Reference pages collect API boundaries, model compatibility, BSIM background, and technical details that are useful when choosing models or debugging backend behavior.

Maintainers¶

Maintainer pages collect roadmap, contribution, security, release notes, and packaging notes that should not clutter the package source repository.