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From: number9 AT plate DOT dimlight.org Date: Tue Mar 09 2004 - 19:46:02 EST
Hello again, first of all, thanks to all on the list with the help in getting my labels all over the layout automatically. The python suggestion was great, but as I have to duplicate _how_ I do things on campus and they will not upgrade the ancient copy of magic I had to go another route... I have a new question, however. I use my magic at the house to write out the layout to CIF format... using this method, I have two questions: 1) I get this error with my new optimized layout: CIF warning for array sram6t_0 (instances of sram6t): cells are so small and close together that two non-adjacent cells could have interacting CIF! Then when I use my ancient shareware copy of PostCIF to go to dxf format on my other (windows, ugh) machine, I get a layout with 90% of everything missing. This did not happen with my last layout, but the cells were not packed in so tightly as this one... Is there some way around this? I thought about using a bigger technology just to print out the cif, but I do not think that will help, as it will just scale (right now I am doing this in 180nm. 2) I can not stand having to go get my other hard disk out and load up the aforementioned other operating system to convert from cif to dxf. I have looked around and some people on the net have cif to dxf converters for sale ($1800, and no student discounts), but I am wondering what people on this list use. I used the trial version of linkcad which was nice, but the trial period is over and they want me to pay (the $1800). Also, printing out in CAL format does not do me any good either, as openoffice will not open that for printing. The reason I want to plot it out is I do have a plotter, and I it makes it easy to do some final checking, and I hand in a nice 36"x36" printout of my homework. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Robert ../number9
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