on loading a layout to avoid doing so with in a suspendall ...
resumeall block. That avoids weird errors occurring when the
PDK toolkit scripts are run to generate a new device layout if
the top level layout is still (UNNAMED) and empty.
and HOME substitution in filenames needs to watch for a NULL
cd_file, and (2) The routine that removes the (UNNAMED) cell when
another cell is loaded needs to NULL the boxRootDef pointer or else
it ends up pointing to deallocated memory.
into subcells in a hierarchy. The intent is to use this in
conjunction with the "select intersect" command option added
yesterday to add deep nwell into the cells containing the devices
that need it.
it as a single value "flags" (unsigned char) with meaningful flag
names. Added new option "-fail" to the load command to allow
magic to fail on loading a cell that does not have a corresponding
file rather than the default action of creating a new cell. Added
a flag for the "-quiet" option so that behavior on "-fail" can be
done quietly.
magic database derived layout of a cell that declares GDS_FILE
but for which the GDS file referenced cannot be found or read.
This will produce an incomplete GDS file instead of an apparently
good and complete GDS file that actually contains bad data. Also:
Added new command "random" that allows a random seed to be set,
for use with the GDS output when writing a full dump of a GDS
file. Otherwise, the output prefixes are always the same, which
defeats the purpose of adding the random prefix.
Instead of a 6-character suffix generated randomly, the 6-character
suffix is generated by a hash algorithm from the device parameters.
If the cell parameters are changed, then the cell itself changes.
If the instance name was default (derived from the cell name) then
the instance name changes accordingly. The result is that there
cannot be two (auto-)generated cells with the same parameters but
with different cell names.
related to that cell (since elements are usually temporary and so
kept in a separate list, not in the cell). Corrected a major error
in the bplane implementation that failed to remove a cell use from
the child def's parent list when deleting the use. Can cause magic
to go into an infinite loop, especially after selecting and unselecting
cells.
unrecognized layers when the "readonly" read option is set.
Added support to scale elements (from the "element" command,
such as the measurement text and arrows) when the grid scales,
which was missing. Corrected the output of persistent elements
in a .mag file so that they are correctly scaled by the scale
reducer.
Conflicts:
VERSION
Merged recent changes from master back into bplane, as the efficiency of
bplane for doing extraction on large layouts is unquestionably better.
Fixed the implementation of DBMoveCell() for bplane. Corrected an error
in the bplane version of dbScaleCell() that enumerates cell uses but
does not free the list.
Conflicts:
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calma/Depend
cif/Depend
cmwind/Depend
commands/Depend
database/Depend
dbwind/Depend
debug/Depend
drc/Depend
ext2sim/Depend
ext2spice/Depend
extflat/Depend
extract/Depend
garouter/Depend
gcr/Depend
graphics/Depend
grouter/Depend
irouter/Depend
lef/Depend
lisp/Depend
mzrouter/Depend
netmenu/Depend
plot/Depend
plow/Depend
resis/Depend
router/Depend
select/Depend
sim/Depend
tcltk/Depend
textio/Depend
tiles/Depend
utils/Depend
windows/Depend
wiring/Depend
Merged recent changes from master branch into bplane branch. Testing the
bplane implementation which has about a 5x improvement in extraction times
for large layouts, which is significant enough to move ahead with the bplane
implementation; however, the bplane implementation has not been thoroughly
vetted yet, so it will remain a branch until such time that it has been
validated.
Conflicts:
VERSION
database/DBcellsrch.c
database/DBconnect.c
extract/ExtInter.c
lef/Depend
utils/Depend
Updated bplane branch with all changes to master since the bplane branch
was last modified.
which had been changed a few months back to remove the individual
cell count and only list the top level cell. The behavior has been
changed a bit so that "list" returns values for the top level cell
only, but "listall" returns a complete list. "drc list count total"
gives the DRC count for the top cell, but "drc listall count total"
gives the DRC count for everything (probably not very useful).
Also: Implemented a behavior by request to automatically removed
the (UNNAMED) cell whenever a new cell is loaded and the (UNNAMED)
cell has not been modified.
changed to ignore labels below the top level of hierarchy. This
turned out to be a bad idea. However, the original behavior was
problematic due to confusion over what part of the hierarchy the
labels were in. The new behavior prefixes each label with the
cell hierarchy, eliminating both problems. (2) Corrected the
problem where the attachment box for rendered labels is not
displayed if the label name is not in the viewing area. (3)
Corrected the problem where redirection of input from the layout
window to the console window with the ":" command gets inadvertently
canceled; this turned out to be due to a missing "*bypass" in
front of the command that finds the output scale to display the
pointer coordinates, and this was happening whenever the mouse was
moved while typing in a command.
only at the time of running the command "load". But cells are generally
loaded only on an as-needed basis, so the dereferencing option must be
saved as a flag in the cell and honored whenever its subcells are expanded
or otherwise read at a later time.
rid of redundant port entries in subcircuits. There is still an outstanding
issue as to whether nodes and connections need to be recursively iterated
to the hierarchy bottom. The current fix corrected the test case. Also,
added a "-dereference" option to the "load" command to revert to the
original behavior of using only search paths from "addpath" when searching
for files to load.
8.2.74. Top-level port names are now flagged independently of
any subcircuit port, so they are easier to identify when determining
naming precedence for the net. This makes the code cleaner and
removes the problems arising from non-top-level ports and global
names overriding the subcircuit port names.
routine was erasing and redrawing in one step, which ignored the
possibility of having to erase from one window and redraw in
another if the cursor moved focus from one window to another.
This led to crosshairs being improperly drawn and erased when
multiple windows were present, if the windows had different cells
loaded.
avoid the problem where subcells violate DRC themselves but do
not violate DRC in the context of the parent (i.e., the parent
adds metal to avoid minimum area error), DRC errors in subcells
are neither counted nor displayed, but they remain present in
the subcell database. The DRC check enumerates all subcell
errors as mandatory check areas in DRCFindInteractions(), so
that those areas are always counted with the interaction areas.
Previously, if a subcell violated a DRC rule by itself, that
error would be counted and displayed in the parent even if the
parent had paint causing the error to no longer exist.
rescaling the internal units. The former in particular can
cause problems when moving the root box and importing cells from
a script (same change as made to magic-8.1).
Tim Edwards