[Magic-dev] ext2sim, ext2spice unexpected behavior

[Clint Kelly]

Hey Chris, I had the exact same problem, and I have compiled magic7.4
under a variety of different platforms.  The solution that I found was
to use the "exttospice" command from within magic in the tcl version.
I have a script that does this (so that it looks like the old
"ext2spice" command-line command) if you are interested.  Using this I
was able to get non-zero area and perim values for the spice deck.
BTW in my experience the built-in "exttospice" in the tcl version is
*much* faster than the old command line version.

I can't help you with the ext2sim stuff, although I have also written
scripts that walk the .ext files and determine all of the aliases for
every node (not sure if that's what you need or not).

-Clint


On 9/12/06, Christopher LaFrieda <ccl28 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> I have noticed some unexpected behavior with ext2sim and ext2spice packaged
> with magic 7.4.25, as compared to those with my 7.1 distro.  Using the
> same .mag file and the same .tech file, ext2sim with the 7.4 distro doesn't
> produce a .al or .nodes file (for use with extresis), while the 7.1 does.
> Similarly, when using ext2spice under 7.4 all AS,PS,AD,PD values are zero,
> while for ext2spice under 7.1 they are non-zero.
>
> Is there a new way to extract caps/resis? Or are the defaults different now
> that I need to specify some command line params to ext2sim/ext2spice?
>
> BTW, this is compiled under SUSE 10 and I've tried both the tcl and scheme
> version.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris LaFrieda
>
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