intent to handle multiple isolated substrate regions. A previous
version of this was added to the master branch but that method had
too many issues and is being deprecated. This version is also very
experimental and is a work in progress.
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.
SPICE netlist output that appears to have come from flags created
for writing DEF that inappropriately got set during ext2spice.
A redundant call to efAddNodes() was adding confusion by appearing
to handle most cases but actually missing some. With the corrected
flag, the redundant call is really redundant and can be removed.
It has not been tested whether DEF output is affected by the change
(DEF output from magic is rarely used, anyway).
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.
remove redundant ports. A comment that I left in the code at the
last commit asked if it was necessary to call efAddNodes and
efAddConns recursively. An example came up in which the answer
is apparently "yes". These routines have been replaced by
efFlatNodes(), which appears to solve the problem. There is now
a question of whether efFlatNodesDeviceless() does anything, and
should its main behavior (to flag deviceless subcircuits) be
folded into efFlatNodes.
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.
ports, to avoid creating ports for node names that are redundant.
It would probably be better to avoid creating the redundant node
names in the first place; however, I am less certain why these
are generated. The incorrect additional ports all have hierarchical
names in the cell, which is a sign that they are incorrect, as the
cell itself should not have any parents. The level of certainty
about this fix is definitely not 100%, but it was tested on a
hierarchical analog design, and setting levels of parasitic caps
caused new nodes to appear in subcircuits and in no cases did
information appear to be lost.
with ext2spice without the hierarchy option. More work needed to
produce correct hierarchical output and to support extraction
devices other than the old "fet" record.
the below-threshold coupling caps being removed from the hierarchy,
added code to suppress the error message when it is clearly related
to a below-threshold cap that has been removed.
a scaling issue in extract) which was caused by the addition of
hierarchical netlist generation. Finding hierarchical connections
requires finding instances by name, so it is vastly better to create a
hash table of instances instead of a linked list.
cells with abstract views on all leaf nodes using the "LEFview"
property to declare the cell view to be abstract. Such cells
were being misinterpreted as containing no active devices.
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.
Tim Edwards