had numerous problems, the main one being that each of the three
commands was inconsistent: "expand toggle" inverts the expansion
of the selection and syncs with the layout. But "expand" expands
the layout where instances overlap the box and does not sync to
the selection, and "unexpand" unexpands the layout where the box
completely surrounds instances. Added a set of options to
"expand" and "unexpand" so that these functions can be made
consistent with each other. All varieties of the function now
always sync the selection and the layout.
report it after "Failure to read in entire sub-tree". This will
not report every failing cell (since it quits reading after the
first failure) but will avoid the existing issue of printing
nothing and leaving the user with no feedback as to which cell
was the problem.
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).
commit to prevent port labels from being copied up from the
flattened cell into the parent, and prefixing the instance
name to text in the instance top level so that there will be
no port or label collisions in the parent cell after flattening
the child cell in place. Also: Changed "extract dolabelcheck"
to be the default setting.
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).
only at the time of running the command "load". But cells are generally
loaded only on an as-needed basis, so the dereferencing option must be
saved as a flag in the cell and honored whenever its subcells are expanded
or otherwise read at a later time.
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.
R. Timothy Edwards