substrate more than once for the same subcell, since the substrate
extraction method scans the entire plane area; this was making
large standard cell layouts extract very slowly, as every component
cell was causing the substrate search to be repeated.
limit of the Calma definition, and probably has not done so for ages.
Nobody informed me of this. The restriction has been lifted from
GDS input and output in Magic. It can be reinstated if necessary by
setting a flag in the cifoutput section of the techfile, but it is
likely that this will not be necessary unless there are other tools
that enforce the limit and will not read a GDS file that exceeds it.
item that was never properly validated. Corrected the root of the
problem, which was an attempt to deallocate memory that had never
been allocated in the first place.
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