- global pins have been generated for device cells too and lead
to implicit pins which may not be desired. The original problem
was how to make abstract circuits comparable. This has to be
solved differently.
- Circuit boundaries are good for displaying the boxes for
abstract circuits
So far, duplicate instances have lead to net propagation
into parent cells and floating nets. This is fixed by ignoring
duplicate instances where possible.
- some refactoring
- better performance (was slow because layer iteration
was done outside of loop and recursive cluster iterator)
- with selected nets, only the required hierarchy is
produced. For this a new argument is added to
LayoutToNetlist::create_cell_mapping (nets) which
allows selecting the nets for which a cell mapping
is requested
* Spice writer can now be configure to skip the debug
comments
* < and > are allowed chars in spice names now
* global net names have second prio over labels now
Spice writer: don't prefix model name with "M"
Added "device_class_mismatch" message to netlist compare
Assertion if device classes or circuits are nil on
"same_..."
Issue solved: some circuit pins may not have a net - these
need to be ignored.
Requirement: all pins with a net must be mapped.
Detached pins are not present in the mapping table.
A dummy mapping table was introduced to allow dropping
of pins in the second circuit too.
Output of compare should not depend on memory location
anymore and pin mismatch reporting should include all
pins.
Texts are not only kept inside original layers, but
also inside deep layers. This enables using texts
from DRC.
However, texts in deep layers are kept as markers.
Mostly they are converted back to texts, but the
orientation will be lost.
The change eliminates the need to using Iterators
in DRC instead of original layers and use of
label layers in deep mode.
A drawback is the presence of marker shapes in
deep mode (unless polygon layers are created).
Also, text output to RDB is not supported from
deep layers currently.