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From: Jeff Sondeen (sondeen AT ISI DOT EDU)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 12:22:42 EDT

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    bindu madhavan writes:
     > Hi,
     > I am seeing the following problem with extraction of
     > mosfet perimeter values extracted in magic-7.1.x
     > both from the magic-7.1.2 distribution and the CVS
     > repository as of July 10, 2002.
     > The problem is independent of tech file,
     > and observed on the following platforms: HP
     > workstation running HPUX 11.0, magic ported to cygwin
     > on i686 platform)
     > 
     > Problem statement (ext_problem.txt in attched gz file): magic-7.1.x
     > extraction has incorrect PD and PS values for NMOS, PMOS
     > transistors, when there is more than one rectangle involved in the
     > description of the shape of diffusion -- for example: diffusion
     > contact, or right-angle turn of diffusion.
     > 
     > 	Problem does not exhibhit itself in magic-65.
     > 
    
    if a fix is too difficult (ie. have to identify and remove common
    edges from perimeter sums), can't the extract code just use the old
    method, which i think just solves for equivalent height and width from
    the area sum?
    
    /jeff
    


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