the "tool" implementation. Previously, the "tool" implementation
would overwrite the button bindings for the mouse. The problem
with that is that if the user customizes one or more of the
bindings, such as using the mouse wheel for zooming instead of
panning, then the custom macro gets obliterated when the tool
changes. The reimplementation creates multiple macro sets which
are unique to each tool. The "enable_tools" function sets up
the initial unique default bindings for each tool. The user
can then customize the bindings for any tool, and the
implementation no longer requires the constant changing of key
bindings. Note that the new implementation is slightly less
efficient because the macro tables are found by string hash
based on the name of the tool or client type, not the integer
client ID. The reduction in efficiency is balanced by the
increased flexibility of the macros.
terminal resistance, for cases where the resistor value is
estimated and output along with (or instead of) the physical
length and width or area and perimeter. Corrected the "area"
and "perimeter" type handling so that they combine in parallel,
not in series (note that "perimeter" resistance is just an area
resistance with the depth of the material factored in).
section of the tech file, which can be used to alter the layer
connectivity tables from the default. This can be used, for
example, to disconnect substrate and well from taps, to
generate a netlist that checks for soft-connect errors.
1) Corrected spurious error messages about cells already existing
in GDS when using "flatten" or "flatglob".
2) Fixed handling of resistance as a subcircuit parameter
3) Added area and perimeter resistance for a device; this is done
through the "devresist" statement in the tech file, which is an
extension of the original "fetresist" statement. Where "fetresist"
only supported type "linear", "devresist" supports types "area"
and "perimeter".
4) Support for CDL syntax, including generating subcircuit-like
parameters for components starting with SPICE-standard prefixes
like M, R, C, etc., adding "/" between pins and subcircuit name,
and saving the file as ".cdl" instead of ".spice".
5) Estimated L and W for devices whose geometry is complex and do not
reduce to a simple rectangle. L and W are estimated as the square
root of the area.
6) Changed the method of extracting L and W for diodes to use the same
method as capacitors. Note that diodes are not usually specified
by L and W, but if they are, this will produce the right result.
7) Corrected the reported filename and line number when printing error
messages related to errors inside a technology file, when the
technology file uses "include" to combine multiple files.
since this is a common artifact of foundry cells and almost
always incompatible with magic. Modified the "port" command to
allow "port make <index>" on a label where other labels of the
same text already have the same index. Removed deprecated
documentation and added some missing documentation, such as an
explanation of the "ext2spice subcircuit auto" option.
doing "save", which was missing checks on properties representing
coordinates (e.g., FIXED_BBOX) resulting in those values
potentially getting truncated by scaling the output to an
incompatible common factor. Thanks to Sylvain Munaut for finding
the issue!
prefix when doing a reentrant load, causing include files to not
be found. Fixed a divide-by-zero issue that occurs when some
tech file sections are not loaded to the abovementioned error.
command, but with some critical differences, since the "crash"
command is designed for crash backups. "crash" will save in a
temp file and removes the file after a successful recovery.
"archive" can be used at any time to make a complete snapshot of
a layout in a single file, or to read back that snapshot.
There is a "writeall" option that will make a snapshot including
layout of all read-only (PDK) cells.
command handling in the previous commit, that can cause a crash
whenever "writeall" is called while a cell's filename is still
NULL. Thanks to Daniel Estevez for reporting the error.
a self-intersecting or reversing path is seen in the input.
Added a new feature in which "save <cell>.tcl" will create a
file of magic commands that will re-create the cell when sourced
as a command file.
X and Y values, in which case the selection is moved to the
current pointer position. This allows a different implementation
of the "copy" command as "select move; select keep", which avoids
the problem that "copy" has of modifying the selection with layer
interactions with the existing layout.
label text) vs. non-extended bounding box of a cell when doing
"getcell" (and probably a number of other commands/functions, as
well). A function was always computing the extended bounding box
and then setting both the normal and extended bounding boxes of
the cell to this value, resulting in incorrect cell selections.
(commit 4084a6a246) in which a
misplaced close-brace altered the way that "getcell" handles
some orientation cases. Thanks to Sylvain Munaut for discovering
the error.
nodes which are created due to having multiple ports with different
names on the same wire (electrically connected pins). This prevents
"extresist" from double-counting the wire.
arguments unambiguous, and to allow coordinates to be given in
any units. To do this, the (seldom if ever used) passing of a
label as a reference point was changed to require the "label"
keyword before the label name, avoiding the code having to
disambiguate arguments from label text. This now makes it
possible to specify the coordinates in microns, lambda, etc.,
units.
non-manhattan geometry was not being transformed into the parent
orientation. This went unnoticed for some time due to testing on
PDKs where substrate and well were not allowed to have non-orthogonal
edges.
option "manhattan_dist" that causes corner checks to assume a
manhattan distance measure. This is useful for checking
distances involving generated edges that are created by a CIF
"grow" operator. For "spacing", "manhattan_dist" is equivalent
to "touching_illegal", as a use-case for forcing manhattan
distance measurements in corners has not been found for other
"spacing" options.
to ignore non-Manhattan (split) tiles. This avoids creating false-
positive DRC results on split tiles which are larger in X and Y
than the max-width distance. False negatives are possible but
correctly implementing a "maxwidth" rule for non-orthogonal areas
requires a completely different algorithm.
version 8.3.521 that, due to an argument size mismatch, causes
device parameters in netlist output to be printed as zero.
Also added a small extension to the list of extraction types
to include "device veriloga", which has the same syntax as
"device subcircuit" but generates a component type "N"
(Verilog-A component) in the netlist output.
that all layer types passed to a single "angles" statement in the
tech file are mutually non-interacting. That is, "angles allm1 45"
will check angles on edges between metal1 and space, but not edges
between metal1 and via (which makes sense, given that a via is an
area into which to place contact cuts, and its edge is not a
physical boundary).
changed the behavior from selecting subcells if they are unexpanded
to selecting subcells regardless of the expansion state. The
change was short-sighted and the implementation hard to use. There
is a need, I think, for a selection method that effectively
unexpands instances, selects everything, and re-expands afterward.
But it's not clear if it is better to select all touching instances
or instances inside the box area; maybe only interacting
instances (instances with non-space content inside the box).
Regardless, it needs more thought, and meanwhile, the original
behavior works better.
Manhattan tiles. After splitting a non-Manhattan tile crossing
a search area to paint, the routine was automatically merging
tiles to the right. This is incorrect for tiles inside the search
area, as it can cause the search algorithm to miss unvisited tiles
whose origins are to the left of the split tile, resulting in part
of the area not getting painted.
not to re-process processed tiles made an incorrect assumption,
causing tiles not to be re-processed when the clip area changed,
such that areas would be missed. It is not clear that in its
corrected version, "bloat-all ... [dist]" is any more efficient
than the original implementation of an incremental series of bloat
+ AND. At least the syntax in the tech file is much simplified.
cast as "bool", causing issues with the proper/strict use of
the "bool" type. Changed the version back so that it will
update the github mirror tonight, since the current version
appears to be working.
database corruption discovered recently that was uncovered by a
commit on Jan. 31 and is caused by DBMergeNMTiles0() using a
freed tile (reported in github issue #404).
commands, because the keypad numerical values no longer work
regardless of the setting of Num Lock. The keypad arrow keys
alone implement "move", while Shift + keypad arrow keys
implement "stretch".
keyword in LEF. FOREIGN may take an origin offset, but it is
optional. The routine to check that there were no offset values
in the statement incorrectly checked for a NULL token instead of
a value ";" which would indicate an end-of-statement.
macro. Based on observation of cells in PDKs where ORIGIN and/or
FOREIGN are non-zero, added code that forces a correction of LEF
macro coordinates to match the GDS coordinates, with an
equivalent negative shift of the LEF macro ORIGIN to compensate.
Normally, both ORIGIN and FOREIGN will be zero and the added code
will do nothing. Note that this code does not handle the
additional optional orientation. A LEF macro with a different
coordinate system than its GDS is already weird; a LEF macro
with a different rotation than its GDS is hopefully something
that nobody ever does in practice. If needed, I'll cross that
bridge when I come to it.
manhattan shapes (especially minimum-sized ones) to be eliminated,
as these can survive a shrink-grow operation intended to get rid
of such shapes. This implementation may not be in its final form
but should suffice for now.
instance names in both the selection and in the root edit CellDef,
and then wipes duplicate names from the selection and regenerates
unique IDs. This avoids the unexpected behavior displayed by
magic in which a "copy" function renames the *original* instance
and gives the original name to the copied instance. This is not
only unexpected, but causes an error in which "undo" after
multiple copies fails to remove earlier copies because the name
change was not recorded, and the instance can no longer be found
by name.
interactive wiring into coordinate-based commands. Added new
command extensions for "wire leg", "wire vertical", "wire type",
and "wire horizontal". Modified the command logging such that
"wire show" (which does not modify layout) does not get logged,
which avoids unnecessary logging of mouse movement.
that has since been compressed and given a ".gz" extension.
Removed code that uses a system call to "gunzip" and "gzip" when
the target file is compressed, since the compression is handled
in the code.
"MASK_HINTS" was implemented, it was put into a routine that
scales all coordinate-related properties, including "FIXED_BBOX",
but the original code that scaled only "FIXED_BBOX" was never
removed, resulting in the bounding box getting incorrectly scaled
twice by any grid scaling.
new CIF operator is used in a tech file. Reworked yesterday's
commit to add more related operators, so there are now four new
ones (also renamed them): interacting, noninteracting, overlapping,
and nonoverlapping. "interacting" now means overlapping or touching;
so the four cases allow all variations of adjacency between the two
material types.
regions of a given type and retains only those regions which
interact with (overlap) another given type. Both sets of types
can be either magic database types or CIF temp layers. This will
allow the implementation of rules that were not previously
possible.
connection to a net that has been decomposed into a resistor array
cannot be found. This indicates some fundamental error in the way
extresist works. However, it should not be producing an invalid
and unsimulatable netlist. Instead, it makes an arbitrary connection
from the device terminal to the resistor array and adds an entry in
the output netlist (.res.ext file). This results in a poor
representation of the resistor network to that terminal, but an
otherwise simulatable netlist. A warning is issued to note that an
arbitrary connection has been made. This is most typically a
"garbage in, garbage out" situation in which insufficient information
exists in a layout to inform magic on which direction current is
traveling through a net. However, it should be possible to rewrite
the extresist code so that magic makes somewhat informed decisions
about current paths and produces a halfway decent representation of
the actual net, instead of just giving up on the detailed extraction.
generate a name for an instance that is set to NULL. It is not
clear to me by an instance would have a NULL name, but apparently
it can happen, and should not crash magic.
R. Timothy Edwards