layers that are normally automatically generated to be supplemented
with additional geometry in the form of properties. The first
commit implements a CIF operator "mask-hints" that tells CIFGenLayer
that additional geometry may be specified with a property named
"MASKHINTS_" plus the name passed to the operator as its only
argument. A more extensive commit to be done will allow this
operator to be used on cifinput to use mask hints to retain the
exact geometry of mask layers used in the input file.
for infinities in space tiles by checking tile dimensions against
TiPlaneRect, where in fact TiPlaneRect is slightly smaller than
the plane boundaries, so this check would always fail, causing
unpredictable behavior due to integer overflow.
bloat-all, that was resetting flags in the entire plane within the
callback for each tile processed. This would push DRC run-times from
minutes to hours. Also corrected another, much more minor, efficiency,
in which the connection mask was generated in the callback routine
for each tile, instead of calculating before the plane search and
passing the mask to the callback function in the client data.
hierarchical processing from CIFGenSubcells() and CIFGenArrays(), and to
avoid certain operators that are useless and harmful when applied
hierarchically; namely squares, slots, bbox, boundary, and net.
which was failing to clear tiles in the layout of the "processed" state,
leading to unpredicatable results if the same layout layer is used in
a subsequent CIF operation.
The new CIF operator BRIDGE-LIM is similar to the BRIDGE operator with the difference that the material created to meet the minimum spacing/width rules do not overlap the limiting layers. Syntax of the new operator is:
bridge-lim spacing width layers
where "layers" are the limiting layers.
caused by the new bloat-all with templayers, which used the distance
record in the bloat structure differently than the other bloat
functions, and therefore was messing up the enumeration of layers
needing to be handled by the hierarchical output. This was probably
also wrong for the existing bloat-all function, which might explain
some problems recently with the GDS output.
generation in the "cifoutput" section of the techfile. This operator
solves the problems with the catecorner position of geometry when
attempting to automatically close up gaps between islands of a layer.
SPICE subcircuit definitions from a netlist file and apply the port
order in the netlist to the port labels in the corresponding cell
or cells in the magic database. Also: Corrected an error in the
bloat-all code introduced in a recent commit that can cause a
segfault.
templayers. This permits some useful interactions like growing to
the size of a bounding box, or abutment box, as well as many other
possibilities. Also: Corrected the use of "cif see" for the boundary
(abutment box) layer, which was not working because the "cif see"
command uses a flattened CellDef that does not have the boundary
property of the cell it was flattened from.
not copy labels; not copying labels speeds up the antenna checks
(which don't need labels) greatly. Also fixed several numerical
overflow problems in the antenna checks, which resulted in false
positive errors, as well as nonsensical results.
a long-standing error (introduced with the "extresist geometry"
option) that can cause nets not to be extracted (due to the first
record not having extraction data, which was itself a long-standing
error in the code but which was not fixed correctly); (2) handle
"device mosfet" type transistors (previously only handled the old
"fet" type extraction devices); and (3) correct for the res.ext
file having a different scalefactor relative to the .ext file. The
latter item was solved by forcing all input to scale like
ExtCurStyle->exts_unitsPerLambda, locally correcting all input as
needed. Note that extresist still needs to handle other extraction
devices (e.g., resistors and capacitors) but those will require
additional handling in the routines which analyze the current path
to determine how to break up wires into paths.
which takes the existing generated CIF plane, finds all enclosed
areas that have an area less than <area>, and fills them in. This
satisfies a minimum hole area rule in a way that is not possible
with any of the existing CIF operators.
which adds an offset value of "start" to both X and Y from the
lower left corner of the fill area. This allows the use of the
"offset" (from the previous git commit) to be declared on different
layers without creating an exact overlap, as is often required by
foundries for fill patterns.
from a selection, which can then be used to index into other lists.
This lets one selection be made on a list of arbitrary names, and
then additional parameters can be linked together with the same
index). Also, implemented (finally!) the "offset" parameters of
the "slots" function (as advertised in the documentation).
simple FET device in extresist. Also: Extended the bloat-all CIF operator
again, allowing the trigger layer for the bloat operation to include both
CIF layers and magic layers (previously only magic layers were supported).
This extension is possible due to the previous extension allowing the
trigger layer and bloating layers to be on separate planes. This operator
extension is useful for tagging geometry that is in the proximity of, but
not overlapping, geometry on another plane.
reduction of memory and startup time, which was to maintain only
one CIF style in memory. The new method is just to read in and
keep the DRC CIF style separately from the output CIF style.
Because the CIF sections of the techfile are read before the DRC
sections, and the CIF DRC style is declared in the DRC section,
the CIF DRC style is read in on the fly during the first DRC
checking.
option "labels ... cellid" to handle some vendor files where
apparently to get around the 30-character cell name limit, the
actual cellname is encoded on a text layer. Added new cifop
"boundary" (no arguments) for cases where a cell abutment box
is encoded on a GDS layer; this now translates the bounding
box to the FIXED_BBOX property, as is done with the LEF bounding
box. Also corrected the property set function to free existing
property value allocated memory when overwriting a property with
a new value.
Tim Edwards
fabian-l-c