Commit Graph

6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jean-Paul Chaput 6ed8de5837 Added latest doc compilation to avoid rebuild. 2018-05-05 00:23:44 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 1c2c858ce8 Added netlist & tool engines to Hurricane+Python tutorial. 2018-03-18 23:28:49 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput dd4a01fe70 Validating channel routing mode (two metals) on SNX.
* New: In Hurricane::Entity, add an id counter limit and a memory size
    limit. The two limits are checked only when a new Entity object is
    created. This should help avoiding massive memory links.
* New: In CRL Core, add a "crlcore.groundName" and a "crlcore.powerName"
    parameter to specify the name of the ground/power signals to be
    created if they are missing in a Cell. For Alliance libraries it
    would be "vss" & "vdd" (default values), but for real technologies,
    it is often "gnd!" & "vdd!".
      The Blif parser is modificated to make use of it.
* Bug: In AnabaticEngine::unify(), set the resulting unified segment in
    the  center of the GCells common side. Gcells under a segment are
    found by using the edge that cover the segment axis. When we have
    a "bend" GCell stack and the axis is wrong, they could be ommited.
      This was causing deleted segments to be not removed from some
    Edges, then core dump.
* Change: In Anabatic::AutoSegment::create(), smarter choosing of the
    reference contact, select the fixed or terminal one instead of
    always the source one.
* New: In Anabatic::Edge::isEnding(), new function to check if a
    segment going through an Edge is starting/ending in either source
    or target GCell of the edge (active only when running in channel
    mode).
* New: In Anabatic::Edge::add(), a segment takes part in the occupancy
    only if it is not ending in either source or target (channel mode
    only). The occupancy due to terminal is pre-computed in Katana.
* New: In Anabatic::Edge::ripup(), in channel mode, never ripup a
    segment which is ending in either source or target (we *have* to
    access this edge to connect to the terminal).
* Bug: In Anabatic::GCell::hcut() and vcut(), force the update of
    the Edge which is on the side that will get splitted by the cut.
    It's capacity will be reduced to it must be updated.
* Change: In Anabatic::GCell::updateGContacts() add a flag to conditionnally
    update horizontals or verticals only. We may require only a partial
    update when resizing the GCell in only one direction.
      This, again, related to the fact that we compute the GCells under
    a segment thanks to it's axis position, so we need to be very careful
    when modificating axis.
* Change: In Katana::Block::resizeChannels(), only update GContact vertical
    position. Do not disturb X positions of segments.
* Bug: In Katana::GlobalRoute::DigitalDistance, in channel mode, some
    Edges can have a zero capacity, but still be reachable if the net has
    a terminal in either source or target. Look for this case and return
    a distance of zero instead of "unreachable". This was causing the
    global routing not to complete in channel mode.
      For computing the edge distance, makes the vertical edges much more
    long (10 times) than the horizontal ones as the vertical capacity is
    very limited. Hard coded for now, should make it a parameter in the
    future.
* Change: In KatanaEngine::annotateGlobalGraph(), decrease the capacity
    of edges with reserveCapacity for each terminal inside a GCell.
    Both north and south edges are decreased as we a terminal will
    block both north and south edges.
      As a counterpart, the Edge capacity is not decreased when the
    global router connect to a terminal.
* Change: In Katana::RoutingEvent::revalidate(), when in repair stage,
    do not expand the slack for horizontal segments in channel mode.
    So they may not overlap the standard cell row.
* Bug: In Stratus documentation, do not use the french option in babel,
    the documentation is in english!
* New: In Documentation, added Hurricane/Python tutorial, part for drawing
    layout.
2018-03-16 16:20:04 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput ef63f5f93d Update documentation for new technology scheme. 2017-11-17 12:04:33 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 4d6b06d368 Update documentation to build on Debian 9.2 (stretch).
* Change: In documentation/CMakeLists.txt, for add_custom_targets(),
    add_dependencies() no longer allow to give files (only others
    *target* in the sense of cmake). We must use the DEPENDS option
    of add_custom_target().
* Change: In documentation/UsersGuide, it seems that docutils no longer
    handle correctly '$' and/or '_' in verbatim in the LaTeX backend.
    (i.e. they are *not* escaped, resulting in math mode errors).
    Remove those characters as we can use others...
* Commit a snaphot of the current documentation.
2017-10-30 15:33:37 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 95d1b53646 Complete hoverhaul of the documentation to Sphinx.
* New: In documentation, reorganise all the various documents into one
    Sphinx coherent one. The index also provide a link toward the
    Doxygen generated doc (C++ APIs) and the venerable LaTeX2HTML ones
    (for Stratus).
      This will make easier all future extensions to the doc corpus.
      The generated documentation is commited into Git so a new user
    can use it directly after cloning the repository.
      The HTML doc is truly generated by Sphinx, but the pdf one is
    created rst2latex. The Sphinx pdf writer is buggy when a "tabular"
    contain a multicol and a multirow in the same area of the table.
    rst2latex handles it correctly.
      We use a theme borrowed for Read The Doc (half of it).
      It seems that some Javascripts are not working correctly,
    namely the folding of the navigation sub-menus and the index
    generation and search mode.
2017-07-15 17:35:02 +02:00