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.
substrate (bulk terminal) and global substrate. Otherwise, the
routine in ext2hier.c that finds the substrate node will find the
first device bulk connection, not the default substrate.
implements a method for handling ports in a subcircuit that have different
port names and indexes but are shorted together. "none" is the default
and backwards-compatible behavior that merges ports together, which will
often cause one of the ports to be optimized out of the netlist. "resistor"
will separate the port names with a 0-ohm ideal resistor. "voltage" will
separate the port names with a 0-volt voltage source. This should work
well for simulation and potentially for LVS, although its impact on LVS
has not been fully investigated.
code from extflat from type unsigned long to type TileTypeBitMask.
This increases the number of types of each to 256 and tracks the
number of types, so it should be difficult to exceed this amount.
for the "equiv" statement---equivalent nodes names have to be
registered in the def->def_nodes hash table, and if they point to
the same node, then that node can't be free'd until the last
referenced node is seen when iterating through the hash table to
free the node records during EFDone(). This is handled by the
reference count.
extraction: Fixed a problem causing long extraction times, at
least some of which had to do with a poor string hash function
implementation. Fixed a huge problem in ext2spice, where the
node merge function was particularly poorly implemented, causing
exponentially increasing processing times with layout size.
Corrected a minor issue with ext2spice where arguments were
improperly specified, causing unnecessary error messages to be
issued. Fixed an error in the "load -dereference" command option,
which again caused unnecessary error messages to be issued.
Changed .gitignore to ignore Depend files, which are now regenerated
on every build.
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.
Tim Edwards