The Purpose of Mint is to provide a fast verification of logic and timing features of a piece of layout. Mint is faster and less accurate than Thyme and can handle many more fets in a reasonable amount of time. Its time evaluations are more reliable than Crystal ones, as it takes into account the logical states of the circuit inner.

The simulation interface resides in Mint.mesa, and the display and print interfaces in MintDisplay.mesa.

The user interface for Mint consists of one command called "SINIX -> Mint", available via the <space>-P menu of ChipNDale. This command takes a selected ChipNDale cell as argument, extracts the cell using Sinix, translates the resulting cellType into a Mint flat world, and writes on the Mint viewer the statistics of the creation of the Mint sets. The Mint.Circuit created is available for simulation as CDMint.circuit.

Mint is not very good with analogic designs, as it assumes that a fet is simply either open or close. Consequently, smart and tricky fet assembly will probaly result in oscillations, traducing the fact that neither the fets fully open nor fully closed reaches a equilibrium.