default behavior of magic to make use of the "gds contacts true"
option to output contacts as arrays of subcells instead of
individual boundary entries, as the former is much more efficient
than the latter. Set the option to be true by default, and set
the "gds flatglob" option to have one entry "$$*$$" corresponding
to the contact subcells created by the "gds contacts" option, so
that GDS reads and writes as it did previously (but using a
different method). Expanded the method to include "squares-grid"
and "slots" operators (the latter should produce much more
efficient fill pattern arrays). Implemented for both compressed
and uncompressed GDS. Tested in all variations.
option. This is important as the default units of 1nm are not
necessarily able to be converted to integer values if the
minimum manufacturing grid is an odd number of nanometers.
"slivers"; the error tended to produce artifacts (extra metal)
around contacts. Fixed an issue that caused the DEF write routine
to open the same file twice instead of a new file for the second
part of the DEF data, and then potentially hit a runaway condition
when trying to merge the two files together.
respect to calculations around diode-connected diffusion regions.
The diffusion area calculation needed to be fixed to avoid double-
counting contacts, and the value for the ratioDiffA coefficient
needed to be scaled, since it is multiplied by the diffusion area
and therefore has dimensioned units of (1/area^2) and should be
treated like all other dimensioned units in magic.
routine; that is incorrect, and it should have been fgets().
When dbFgets() is recast to a zlib version, then its use in
"def write" causes magic to crash.
supported). Fixed the long-standing issue in which DRC does not
get stopped by the "drc off" command (the behavior for interrupting
the DRC was dependent on the DRC being turned on, and the "drc off"
command was turning it off before breaking, causing the interrupt
to be ignored).
attempt is made to write an abstract view to GDS. This behavior can
be overridded with the new command option "gds abstract [enable|disable]".
Also: Corrected extraction to allow split tiles to be set as the
reference tile for a node. Previously this was allowed only if the
tile was the first to be searched, but that can cause different tiles to
be marked as the reference depending on where the search starts,
resulting in different names for the same node in .ext files, which is
bad. Also: Modified the LEF annotation to avoid bad entries in the LEF
that would create layers in the layout where none exist.
configure script, now that Alessandro De Laurenzis has cleaned
up the code so that it will compile with the setting (now, just
need to do the same thing for "implicit-int"!).
Alessandro De Laurenzis. That pull request cleaned up the vast
majority of compiler warnings. However, that cleanup exposed a
few additional warnings pointing to errors in the code that needed
fixing. The code now compiles cleanly except for one warning
about redefined CAD_DIR that I have not looked into.
This commit makes the code (mostly) C99-compatible, enabling to compile
it without the -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration flag. This
way, Magic becomes usable on arm64 architectures, specifically on Apple
computers with M1/M2 SoC.
tech files which incorrectly parses the syntax using five
parameters. This syntax variant does not get used often, which
is why the error went undetected for a long time.
calculation of the area to check for output and the clip box
does not reduce the size of any layer associated with the
fixed bounding box declared by the FIXED_BBOX property.
flattening based on cells which have a property "flatten". Also:
Modified the DEF read and write to convert DIEAREA into a
FIXED_BBOX property. This solves issues with placing of components
from DEF, when those components may not have have come from place &
route and may not have P&R bounding boxes. Also: Fixed the
documentation for the "dump" command, which was missing the optional
orientation in the description.
run free() on a memory location that was never allocated. This
error has no effect on anything, but correcting it prevents magic
from issuing a mysterious warning.
for BPEnum instead of putting it in the local frame. The structure
is half a megabyte and will severely limit the hierarchy depth
because it is used in the recursive cell search.
that are unattached (type = space) will cause magic to crash on
the command "lef write -hide"---The lowest level issue was in
SelectChunk(), so for good measure SelectChunk() now checks for
type == TT_SPACE, and "lef write" does also.
non-default rules and so can accurately capture wire widths other
than the technology LEF defaults (also corrected a bug with non-
default rules for "def read"). Corrected via handling in "def
write" to function as claimed (although the algorithm is still
naive and expects all contacts to be rectangular, which is usually
true but doesn't have to be).
record. Failure to use the right 8-byte real format can produce
bizarre results where a label's bounding box ends up in some random
place and messes up an entire top level circuit's bounding box.
with class, use, and shape information from the DEF file PINS record.
This is similar to what is done with LEF file annotation, but less
sophisticated (only erases an existing pin if it is an exact match
for pin name and location).
alternative separator "." instead of "/". This prevents other
routines that expect "/" to indicate a true hierarchy from treating
the label as hierarchical instead of flat, which should be the
correct handling for a flattened cell.
guarantee unique instance names during generation of each new
copy, but only afterward, in bulk. Otherwise the copy routine
has a runtime that is exponential with the number of cells being
copied. This and the last commit guarantee that the "flatten
-novendor" option works as advertised.
caused by other code that can move the plane of a device to match
the plane of a port. Solved by retaining the original plane of the
node in the extTransRec structure, and using that to determine the
device plane for purposes of calculating perimeters and not double-
counting contacts.
that queries a default layer width. Otherwise this can cause a
segfault, especially when a technology file has not been specified
and the minimum tech is in effect.
with slashes in the name (picks up the text after the last slash).
Also allowed the "gds library" command option to modify the
behavior of "gds read" (previously only affected "gds write") to
indicate that the GDS file is a library and that there are no top-
level contents, only subcell definitions. Also: Corrected a typo
from yesterday's commit that prevents magic from compiling (oops).
"Antenna checker should ignore vias in partial mode". I changed the
implementation by moving the correction into the antennaAccumFunc()
subroutine so that it skips the area calculations for the contacts,
avoiding unnecessary computation. Otherwise, it's the same (vias
do not contribute to the surface area of the antenna when calculating
antenna area in "partial" mode).
(OpenBSD/NetBSD/DragonFly support), and a change to the wrapper to allow
manual override of the number of icon columns (because sometimes some
window managers are clueless about the correct window dimensions).
make sure that the cell def's .ext is not marked "abstract".
Otherwise, "antennacheck" appears to run, but no output is
produced, and no reason is given.
prevents magic from crashing but does not do anything about the
fact that a non-existent node ended up in the .ext file, which
will have to be investigated.
Previous commits changed the port IDs to an integer rather than a
bitfield. However, the first and next commands were utilizing that
a -1 became a large positive integer when masked. This resulted in
the min port operations failing. Added a default comparison with -1
to fix the problem.
polygon cell has been created with the "gds polygon subcell"
option and the parent cell is read-only (vendor GDS), then the
polygon cell does not actually exist in the original GDS and
should not be output during a "gds write".
fringe capacitance halo where the default halo distance was set to
zero instead of one and caused divide-by-zero issues; (2) Found
extraction issues where labels picked up from cells flattened
during GDS reading cause the flattened/emptied cells to show up
in the extraction with extra pins that can mess up LVS. Solved
this by removing labels from flattened/emptied cells.
using the newer methods for nearest-edge searching and fringe area
of effect. Removed a same-net check in a routine that removes
capacitances that are redundant due to hierarchical overlaps; these
redundancies must be checked on shapes within the same net. Corrected
(again) an out-of-clip-bounds check.
Tim Edwards
Alessandro De Laurenzis
Brad Smith
Anton Blanchard
mrg