[Magic-dev] Design Scratch Pad for MAGIC

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Manu,

> I am trying to develop a design scratch pad for MAGIC. The design
> scratch pad would allow the user to copy a small section of the layout
> from the MAGIC window and paste on the scratch pad for various kinds
> of analysis. My first problem is that when I select an area and copy
> in MAGIC how do I paste to my scratch pad. Another is where (which
> pdf/paper/tutorial) do I read for the inter representation of MAGIC
> files.

I'm a bit uncertain about what you are trying to do here.  Do you
want to create an extension to magic that makes use of magic's
database and subroutines?  Or is this a separate program?  If a
separate program, you will have to be prepared to take one of magic's
output formats, such as GDS, CIF, or its own ".mag" format.  You will
have to figure out what format is useful to you, and go from there.
Writing routines that access magic's internal database is a bit
easier with the Tcl version of magic; "ext2spice" and "ext2sim" are
written that way.

Papers on magic's internal structure are on my website at

	http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/magic

Click on the "Documentation" button.

					Regards,
					Tim

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