"drc printrules". Implemented a new "drc" command option called
"drc ignore", which can be used to suppress reporting of specific
rules, for both "drc why" and "drc find". This can help with
finding an error buried among a large number of other errors.
previous behavior that had inadvertently been changed. In recent
versions, "load <absolute_path> -dereference" would incorrectly
apply the dereferencing to <absolute_path> rather than just its
subcells. Cleaned up the code around DBCellRead() in the process,
so everything is more straightforward (although probably more
could be done in that regard).
dereferencing, and making the behavior of "load" on the command
line (i.e., loading a cell from a file) the same as the
behavior of loading a cell as a result of expanding an unloaded
instance. In both cases, if "load -dereference" is used, and
a cell does not exist in any search path but does exist in the
original location, without dereferencing, then the cell will be
loaded from the original location. Also: Corrected an error
that has existed since adding the capability to read compressed
files, which causes magic to crash when attempting to run the
"crash recover" command (because that routine was mixing
compressed and regular file stream calls).
implement a GF DRC rule. This variant allows for a difference
between the minimum allowed surround on one side and the amount
that must be extended on the adjacent side.
contacts) take default values from the DRC section. Since both
are in lambda, but the DRC section uses a two-part integer and
modulus representation, if default values are taken before
scaling, the LEF layers may get rounded values. This has been
solved by marking values with -1 to indicate that they require
defaults, and then set those defaults (from scaled DRC rules)
after scaling all other tech values.
supported). Fixed the long-standing issue in which DRC does not
get stopped by the "drc off" command (the behavior for interrupting
the DRC was dependent on the DRC being turned on, and the "drc off"
command was turning it off before breaking, causing the interrupt
to be ignored).
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 queries a default layer width. Otherwise this can cause a
segfault, especially when a technology file has not been specified
and the minimum tech is in effect.
recognized as a valid command when file locking has been disabled as
a compile-time option. The command then generates an error on
"locking enable" but simply ignores the command "locking disable".
gates when the gate length minimum may be larger than the gate
width minimum, and to implement an "angles" option on the "width"
rule that can implement rules where a layer width must be wider
as measured from angled edges than from straight edges.
the "width" rule is assumed to be symmetric, and not checked in all
four directions, as that would be redundant. But non-Manhattan tiles
are not symmetric and must be checked all four directions. Implemented
in a way that does not increase the DRC processing time.
in github issue #149. This causes magic to no longer write log files
for "make" and "make install" but will properly exit with a non-zero
return code on any error during compile.
Also: Corrected the command "tech drc surround <type1> <type2>" so
that it now returns the correct value when <type1> and <type2> are in
the same plane. Added new command "tech drc directional <type1> <type2>"
which works the same way as "tech drc surround" except for directional
surround rules. Used this to generate vias from "def write" with the
correct metal surround amounts included in the via definiton. The
route analysis then ignores tile slivers that make up the surrounding
material around contacts. Also implemented a method that handles
routes that are made of multiple thin tiles due to the maximum horizontal
stripes rule. Now magic handles "def write" well except for not dealing
with non-minimum-width routes unless they're specifically called out as
"special" nets.
Most of this had to do with the incorrect use of the parent's substrate
name in extHierSubstrate(). After the correction, there still remains
an issue that is caused when a labeled isolated substrate region overlaps
an extraction tile boundary. I believe that this particular error has
existed for some time and is not new, so I am committing these changes.
The extSubtree() routine cuts a layout into squares and extracts
each separately, checking for subcell interactions. In each
square it parses all labels looking for unconnected ones. This
section of code not only parses all labels M x N times, but it
then marks interaction areas where there may be none, forcing
additional unnecessary processing. This commit makes the first
quick optimization, which is to change the return value of
DRCFindInteractions() from boolean to integer, allowing it to
return a value indicating that there are no subcells in the
area. This prevents the loop through labels from happening in
cases where there can never be interactions. More to come.
CmdRS.c:1269:22: warning: & has lower precedence than ==; == will be evaluated first [-Wparentheses]
DRCtech.c:2573:16: warning: & has lower precedence than !=; != will be evaluated first [-Wparentheses]
account for the fact that non-Manhattan tiles are processed twice
in the search, with the side mask bit 1 and 0 for each call. The
DRC check, like the Manhattan checks, only needs to check one of
these.
to copy up errors from non-interacting subcells. The routine was
only copying up TT_ERROR_P type errors, but for deep hierarchies,
TT_ERROR_S type errors may have to be propagated up as well.
"|"), pointed out by Jim Everitt. The error is pretty major, but
because the section of code it affects is just eliminating
unnecessary DRC rules, I believe that the only effect is that the
DRC ruleset ends up using more memory than it needs to. But, good
to have fixed.
the layers2->layers1 swapped case from being implemented; the
surround_ok rule type is by definition asymmetric and the two
layer sets cannot just be swapped.
geometry (which had gone unnoticed due to the lack of use of
"cifspacing" in any rule decks). The rule was not checking for
all synthetic edges, because the tile type was expected to match
the rule type when the function is called, but with a non-Manhattan
tile, that may or may not be true and needs to be checked.
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.
one is an "off_grid" DRC type, which can be used to check geometry
that is below the manufacturing grid. Normally magic prevents the
grid from being subdivided below the manufacturing grid, but this
limit can be removed and replaced by DRC checks to check for such
errors in a GDS file of unknown origin. The second version looks
for interactions between subcells that end up with intersections
of non-manhattan geometry landing on points that are not on the
database internal grid. Such errors cannot be seen by magic's DRC
engine by definition, and so must be detected while flattening
geometry for the DRC checks.
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).
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.
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).
the bottom in non-interacting areas means that any change in DRC
to a subcell must be handled before checking DRC in the parent.
Previously the order of checks was reversed, moving parent cells
to the beginning of the check list. This prevents the error cited
in the previous commit which was showing up as a delayed DRC check
when creating parameterized cells.
processes "interaction areas". This should eliminate weirdnesses
where errors will fail to show up in a subcell that does not
interact with paint or other subcells in the top level edit cell.
These errors cannot be reported directly in the top level cell,
but a new error message has been created to direct the user to
check the subcell for errors. Also: Modified the toolkit procedures
to force DRC to be run on newly created or modified parameterized
cell layouts. There is some oddity about the process that causes
DRC errors to be delayed unless a print statement is put before the
DRC check; I would like to investigate this further.
the rule is a normal database rule or a CIF-DRC rule. For the latter,
the flag is used when substituting for escape strings in the "why"
rule explanation to produce the correct value in microns.
errors in the periphery of where a change has been made. For some
reason this was not apparent before, but seems to be from a change
dating back to 2008---which seems unlikely. The fact that it has
not been seen before may have something to do with the size of the
DRC halo compared to the DRC step size in the SkyWater PDK, where
it has suddenly become apparent. Jury is still out on this one.
Before this modification "directed" surround rule only worked for layers1 and layers2 belonging to the same plane.
After this modification the "directed" rule works also for different planes, even if layer1 is a contact type.
templayers. This permits some useful interactions like growing to
the size of a bounding box, or abutment box, as well as many other
possibilities. Also: Corrected the use of "cif see" for the boundary
(abutment box) layer, which was not working because the "cif see"
command uses a flattened CellDef that does not have the boundary
property of the cell it was flattened from.
Tim Edwards
Anton Blanchard
Alessandro De Laurenzis
Brad Smith
fabian-l-c