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.
checks on non-Manhattan tiles were made only on the straight edges;
this was sufficient for most checks. However, it can miss the case
of facing non-Manhattan edges. This check does not do triggered
rules because there is no non-Manhattan maxwidth algorithm implemented,
and because the triggering clipping area is a triangle and needs an
extension to support it.
area + halo but then failing to limit overlap checks to that clip
area, resulting in bizarre errors whenever an array is made. Not
sure why the error didn't show up more often.
in which if a cell is read from GDS that has the same name as a cell
in memory, then the cell in memory is renamed to keep all cell names
unique in the database.
for sticky labels making connections through the hierarchy. This
is only needed for some annoying layouts that put point-size labels
with no connecting geometry in cells, and causes magic to spent
excessive amounts of time searching through labels for any layout
that has lots of labels.
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.
This can be done now by reading a LEF file, followed by reading
a GDS file with the "noduplicates" option set. In addition,
annotation of either the LEF view or a read-only view follows the
same protocol as cell paths in the .mag file, which is to replace
leading path components matching Tcl variables for PDKPATH or
PDKROOT, and replace the home directory path with a tilde.
commit, mostly relating to the scale of values in the ".nodes" file
produced by ext2sim. Making this file CIF syntax seemed unnecessary,
so I removed the CIF syntax and scaling. "extresist" can now produce
an apparently valid output on a standard cell layout. Even with the
change, the extresist output is still only pseudo-hierarchical, so
this does not preclude the need for eliminating the .sim format file
in favor of the .ext file, but it provides a working intermediate
form.
so that it returns cellnames in "natural sort" alphabetical order
instead of the random order produced by scanning the hash table
of cell names. Since this command is used by the "cell manager"
window code, which was also not doing any sorting, then this fixes
the same issue in the "cell manager".
original view position; this was due to not setting units to
internal before re-applying the previous view position. Also wrapped
most of the "popstack" routine into a suspendall...resumeall block so
that the view is refreshed only once; this is especially important
when popping back into a full chip view.
with the existing documentation) by not requiring the net containing
the two labels to be selected before running the "select short" command.
The command now first checks if the labels exist in the selection, and
if not, the command effectively executes "goto label1 ; select net" and
then continues as previously implemented.
that contain the selected paint. Previously, all cells inside the
area of the selection box would be printed, which is completely
wrong, and can lead unexpectedly to thousands of cell instance
names being printed out.
statement in a .ext file require that all aliases of a node name be
rehashed after a node merge, or else node loops can occur. Also
prevented statements of the form "equiv A A" from being output in
the .ext file, as they are useless.
However, this has not been implemented as it has been observed that
the use of itimer() has a restriction of one timer per process, which
interferes with the three or more uses of the timer within magic. The
timer method will have to be changed to use the POSIX timer_create()
routine, before this will work properly.
extra option "-default" that allows defaults to be set for any
label property other than text or port-related properties.
Subsequently, the command "label <text>" will apply the given
defaults to the label. This allows a simpler way to create
rendered labels from the command line without remembering all of
the arguments to the extended "label" command.
conversion, largely converted from the python script in open_pdks,
which itself was derived from an efabless script, and none of
which have been particularly well tested.
characters. Instead of removing the non-alphanumeric characters, magic
now prepends an "x" to the name. Since this naming restriction does not
necessarily impact, say, LVS, it would probably be better to let this
behavior be enabled or disabled by a command.
The previous behavior was to generate hierarchical names for all
labels when copying contents of subcells. This is "safe" for
copying selections without accidentally shorting things through
labeling, but it can make a mess of the selection. Options are
now "select do labels" for the existing behavior, "select no labels"
to not show any labels, and "select simple labels" to show only the
root name of labels in subcells.
based on the contents of a .mag file being read in, assuming
compatibility with principles of open_pdks. The search paths
are not meddled with unless a file is read for which the technology
cannot be found (and a technology has not already been read, or at
least no database file exists in memory using any technology that
has already been read). If so, then variables PDK_PATH and PDK_ROOT
are searched for in both the shell environment and the local Tcl
environment. Also, if open_pdks has installed PDKs in the path
/usr/share/pdk/, then that path will be searched. If a corresponding
technology file is found, it will be loaded. If the path corresponds
to an open_pdks-style path, then the library paths in libs.ref will
also be added to the search paths for cells.
to get the pixel size of the default font, and scale the window
glyphs and scrollbars to match, so that the display is automatically
adjusted for screen resolution and does not require manual intervention
to correct for high resolution displays.
of an instance with double-escaped brackets if the instance name
contains brackets. This then undermines the use of the backslash
escape and causes the interpreter to raise an error instead of
printing the name.
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.
"bridge" GDS output operator; the previous equations were, under
some situations, failing to meet the width requirement. Also:
corrected the "cif style" check so that it does not claim that a
style name with an exact match is ambiguous. Also: Corrected the
use of "grid limit", so that the limit correctly scales with the
output expander value.
cell def that is marked for a "full dump" from a referenced GDS
file. This change was supposed to have been done a few commits
ago but did not work as advertised.
asymmetric MOSFET definitions in the tech file "extract" section.
Corrected the nmos.tech.in file to put the resistance classes in
plane order, as otherwise the interpretation of which resistance
classes belongs to the transistor source and drain can get messed
up by the presence of buried contacts.
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.
significant amounts of time even though there is no display to
receive the result. However, the "suspendall" command only works
if a window exists. The obvious solution is to set GrDisplayStatus
to DISPLAY_SUSPEND whenever magic is run with the "-dnull" option.
This should help speed up a lot of scripts, in particular where
designs are large.
restricted to its original intent, which is to replace the long name
formed from the plane short name and the "minfinity" coordinate.
This avoids issues with conflicting substrate names derived from a
real layer such as pwell. Also, the global substrate node name now
returns the variable name without the "$" in front if the variable
has not been set to anything. This avoids potential syntax errors
in the netlist.
that have been removed by flattening into the parent cell due to lack
of devices. Previously the checks on writing the subcircuit and writing
the call were slightly different, leading to instances in which the
subcircuit call would be written to the netlist output without the
subcircuit being defined. (2) Corrected an error in the "bridge" CIF/GDS
output operator. In certain (somewhat rare) geometries, the tile behind
(instead of in front of) the corner being checked may be incorrectly
flagged as a DRC spacing error. The fix is to ignore tiles that are
behind the corner being checked.
of input cells on a per-cellname basis, using glob-style pattern
matching. This is probably the best way to deal with 3rd-party vendor
GDS with unfortunate practices like dividing devices up among cells in
a hierarchy, even though it comes across as a bit of a hack solution.
one terminal of a device as the substrate, but also specifies
shielding types for the substrate, then the extraction cannot just
assume that a missing terminal is connected to the substrate without
first checking that there are no substrate shielding types under the
device.
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.
tech file format "version" section. This can be used to specify the
version of magic that must be used to be compatible with the tech file.
This effectively supercedes the technology version number. (2) Changed
the behavior of "make" to set the version and revision numbers on doing
"make" instead of "configure". This allows the version to update
correctly after doing a "git pull" followed by "make" without doing
"configure" in between. (3) Fixed a couple of issues that were flagged
as compile-time warnings.
true, this will force the "gds write" command to write out creation
date stamps as zero. This is very useful for avoiding changing the
contents of an otherwise-unchanged layout, especially if it is in
a git repository where it will force the entire file to be replaced.
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.
to allow a cell to be flushed with dereferencing (i.e., discard any file
path attached to the cell, and use the search paths to find the cell when
it is reloaded).
routine attempts to rescale the contents of the top-level cell after
moving forward in the GDS to find a cell that was used before it was
defined, if reading that cell caused the scale to change. However,
the numerator and denominator were reversed, causing the scaling to
be the inverse of what it should have been.
Ghazy) to read pin uses from a DEF file, including the three types
that are not defined by the LEF format (go figure). Expanded the
bitmask of label flags to include the additional use types. Also
shifted the label flag bitmask up to make additional room for more
port number, as there is no point in having unused bits in the
bitmask.
could have multiple ports of the same name. This problem had been
worked over before, but there was an indpendent mechanism producing
the same result for a completely different reason, caused by subcells
being much larger than the cookie-cutter extraction method's extraction
regions. Solved by tracking port names in a hash table and preventing
re-use. (2) ext2spice was producing "no such node" errors; like (1)
this had been previously worked on, and like (1) this mechanism was
independent. Problem came from not passing -1 to extHierSubstrate for
the non-arrayed dimension of a 1-dimensional array. Also: Removed
the word "fatal" from extraction error reporting, as nearly all
extraction errors are entirely benign. This should clear up confusion
among alarmed end-users.
occurrence of the label to place the box on. This can be used with
"findlabel -glob <name>" to get a list of labels and determine the
length of the list, and then iterate through each occurrance of the
label in the edit cell.
disagreements between parent and child cells on GDS generation for
templayers, as these layers are not output; any resulting differences
showing up eventually on an output layer will be reported.
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.
the handling of subcell instances generally. Previously it would check
the interaction between neighboring cells in an array without regard to
any material in the parent cell which might remove those errors;
consequently, the array would have to be DRC clean by itself in order for
the parent cell to show as DRC clean. The array check has been moved
inside the DRCInteractionCheck() routine, so that it runs only where
arrayed instances do not interact with anything else. Within interaction
areas, the area is flattened and checked, so the array check is not
needed.
unique" code. It was using DBEraseLabelsByContent() which would
erase all matching labels, and could potentially erase labels that
were still remaining on the list being processed, causing a segfault.
Also corrected minor errors identified by valgrind during debugging
the above-referenced problem.
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.
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.
from child cells, which was incorrectly descending all the way down
into the hierarchy; not only can this produce the incorrect result
but it also wastes time searching cells that don't need to be
searched.
are interpreted in the dimensions used in the cifoutput section rather
than always in centimicrons (otherwise, rules at, say, 5nm cannot be
represented in the DRC section).
Tim Edwards