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.
requires that subcells be unexpanded in order to select them. This
seems to be more in line with what one would expect from the
documented description of the "select area" command, and more in
line with common-sense expectations.
This commit makes the code (mostly) C99-compatible, enabling to compile
it without the -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration flag. This
way, Magic becomes usable on arm64 architectures, specifically on Apple
computers with M1/M2 SoC.
that are unattached (type = space) will cause magic to crash on
the command "lef write -hide"---The lowest level issue was in
SelectChunk(), so for good measure SelectChunk() now checks for
type == TT_SPACE, and "lef write" does also.
an optional extra argument to the "select" command that can be used
to select labels by glob-style matching; e.g., "select area labels
VSS*" or "select less area labels *_1". This will help in managing
labels after flattening a standard cell design; e.g., by using
"select less area labels */VDD".
that the intersection of (A and-not B) can be found. This and the
(A and B) version give a large amount of capability like the cifoutput
operators available as command-line commands. Also: Fixed the new
"drop" command so that it properly redisplays and runs DRC after
executing, and modified the behavior so that the dropped material
is clipped to the area of the selection.
that the behavior is to pare down any existing selection by removing
any parts of it that do not intersect the layer specified on the
command line. This is generally more useful than the previous
method, as the intended purpose is to intersect a number of layers
against one (e.g., all transistors intersecting deep nwell).
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.
not copy labels; not copying labels speeds up the antenna checks
(which don't need labels) greatly. Also fixed several numerical
overflow problems in the antenna checks, which resulted in false
positive errors, as well as nonsensical results.
the compiler. Some are obscure functions (plot verstatec hasn't
been used in years) but others (like SPICE distributed junctions)
are potentially significant sources of unexpected crashes on
systems that don't zero uninitialized memory.
development had been halted since it was first created back in April.
Version 8.2 is now the official development version, with the first
development push to create a Cairo graphics interface.
R. Timothy Edwards
Darryl L. Miles
Alessandro De Laurenzis