argument to "lef write" take an optional value which is a setback
distance, similar to "-hide", but specifically for limiting the
distance that pins can extend into the center of a macro.
to stop the search whenever a cell is not found. Used this to implement
a new option for GDS writes, "gds undefined allow|disallow" (default
"disallow") controls whether or not GDS with undefined references will
be allowed to be written. Similarly affects CIF and LEF writes, extraction,
and DRC (when running "drc check" from the top).
Corrected the "lef write -hide" command option so that obstructions
outside of the boundary are included in the obstruction list, in
addition to the block inside. This had previously been done
correctly for use with the "setback" option but would fail only
for setback = 0.
defMakeInverseLayerMap() from returning complete contact types when used
by the lefWrite command when writing LEF macros, which contain cut layers
but not entire contacts.
are considered an exception to the "-toplayer" restriction; this is
because masterslice well/substrate layers will affect the electrical
connectivity between port and sustrate or well.
that produces a result that looks like "lef write -hide" in the middle
but "lef write" around the edge. Can be useful for catching all the
detail around the edges but obscuring/simplifying the bulk of the cell
interior.
at the end of a macro output, even if it is not part of a library.
According to some commercial tools, this is what is expected, even
though the use of "END LIBRARY" is never explained in the LEF/DEF
spec.
for geometry on MASTERSLICE layers (which was inadvertantly broken),
and (2) Added option "lef write -toplayer", which outputs pin geometry
only for the topmost layer belonging to a pin, with connected layers
underneath being designated as obstructions.
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.
"lef write", which had one typo in the formatting, plus was using
a static string method for generating the formatted output that was
implementation-dependent on fprintf(). These have been fixed.
minimum manufacturing grid (normally 1000 but can be altered by the
"angstroms" flag in the cifoutput section, and by "gridlimit").
The output values then are truncated such that the floating-point
output value, when multiplied by the UNITS value, is always an
integer. e.g., "gridlimit 5" will change UNITS to 200, and values
will be minimum precision 0.005, or 5 nanometers.
probably needs revisiting, because "lef write" and "lef writeall"
need handling to generate the PROPERTYDEFINITIONS block for the
PROPERTY entries to be correct.
layers (apart from the fact that contacts are output as magic's
contact layer representation, and not as cuts; this still needs to
be handled properly).
I missed the LAYER value and the geometry was one level to high.
Previous;
```
PORT
LAYER li1 ;
RECT 1.145000 1.075000 1.690000 1.275000 ;
RECT 3.720000 1.075000 4.490000 1.275000 ;
LAYER met1 ;
RECT 1.105000 1.260000 1.395000 1.305000 ;
RECT 3.765000 1.260000 4.055000 1.305000 ;
```
After;
```
PORT
LAYER li1 ;
RECT 1.145000 1.075000 1.690000 1.275000 ;
RECT 3.720000 1.075000 4.490000 1.275000 ;
LAYER met1 ;
RECT 1.105000 1.260000 1.395000 1.305000 ;
RECT 3.765000 1.260000 4.055000 1.305000 ;
```
areas and writes ANTENNAGATEAREA and ANTENNADIFFAREA values.
(2) Determines "USE POWER" or "USE GROUND" from label names
matching Tcl variables $VDD and $GND, if the USE has not been
registered as a cell property (knowning the use allows magic
to avoid writing an ANTENNADIFFAREA for power rails, although
doing so should not be an issue).
because otherwise all pins will flag metal-to-obstruction spacing
within the cell if the cell is wide enough that the obstruction
layer satisfies the width requirement for the rule. It is too
complicated to try to find specific places where the wide spacing
might not be needed. Potentially this could be a problem for
technologies that define a number of graded wide-spacing rules,
as the largest-width rule is always used now by "lef write -hide",
and the largest-width rule could theoretically allow enough space
to route through, which would cause a short that cannot be
detected. That would be a pathological case that may not show up
in practice.
labels by expanding a zero area label rectangle, but then if "select
chunk" returns nothing, it sets the area to the zero area label
rectangle instead of the expanded one that it just created. This
is the reason that "lef write" is producing pins with no geometry
in the LEF file output.
Tim Edwards
Tim 'mithro' Ansell