equates class "a" in circuit 1 with class "b" in circuit2, and
if circuit 1 has a class called "b" and/or circuit 2 has a class
called "a", then both classes are given a new hash to avoid
conflicts with the (presumably) unrelated cells of the same name
in the other netlist.
comparison would look for matching names from the "equate
classes" command. However, it failed to do the reverse
check, which is to make sure that if no forced match was
found for a cell, but there was a name match, that the
name-matched cell found is not being forcibly matched to
something else.
that matches explicitly called out in the setup file using
"equate classes" will take precedence over same-name matching,
instead of the other way around.
Tim Edwards