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From: Svenn.Bjerkem AT temic DOT com
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 08:11:45 EST

  • Next message: Jeff Sondeen: "Re: Using Magic as GDSII viewer."

    I have a gdsii file and wanted to use magic as a gdsii viewer for this
    file. With the default scmos technology I get only errors like this:
    
    Error while reading cell "A": Unknown layer/datatype in boundary, layer=6
    type=0
    Error while reading cell "A": Label on unknown layer/datatype, layer=40
    type=0
    [more layer/datatype errors]
    
    Error while reading cell "B": SREF/AREF ref point doesn't scale exactly
        (2180,31410) / 100 = (22,314)
    
    Warning at line 0 of CIF file: Input off lambda grid by 7/10; grid
    redefined.
    
    These are not the only errors, but I guess they all come from the fact that
    this gdsii has been written with a technology different from scmos.
    
    Now, how can I quickly generate a tech file so that I can view a gdsii file
    of unknown origin and technology? Or is this impossible as magic work with
    tiles and planes? I will go on and make myself a dummy techfile according
    to the maintainers manusl #2, but if anybody here already has done such
    work and know about obstacles, I would be happy to hear about your
    experience.
    
    I downloaded and compiled xrlcad to get some info from the gdsii file:
    
    UNITS 0.001 user units 1e-09 meters (original: 9.85448e-10);
    
    how do I interpret these numbers for the magic tech file? (If anybody know)
    
    Svenn Are Bjerkem
    ASIC Design Engineer
    ContiTemic microelectronic GmbH
    Svenn.Bjerkem AT Temic DOT com
    


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