The implementation uses extrapolation of strings in the
"Expressions" framework.
There is how:
* $(tech_name) -> substituted by the technology name
* $(tech_dir) -> substituted by the directory the technology file is stored in
* $(tech_file) -> substituted by the absolute path to the tech file
* $(appdata_path) -> substituted by KLayout's home directory (e.g. ~/.klayout)
* $(env('X')) -> substituted by the environment variable $X
The device handling in the netlist extractor was now
entirely moved to device cells. New options are introduced
for exporting these cells. Tests have been updated.
- NetlistProperty is the base class for objects that can
be attached to shapes for annotation
- First property type implemented: net name is a way
to annotate net names
The issue was: for MacOS/clang, the virtual format-specific
option structs had to be embedded in one compile unit (for RTTI).
In Windows this will lead to link errors since the DLL is not
reachable at build time for the generic reader/writer configuration in
the buddy tools.
The solution is to use GSI methods (provided for scripting) to
set the reader/writer options in a generic way that does not
require linking against the plugin DLLs.
* Modification of the mapping is possible now
(#map used to ignore mappings if there was one
already)
* Added DropCell mapping (also for RBA)
* Added unit tests for cell mapping, layer mapping
db::merge_layouts, db::copy_shapes and db::move_shapes