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Jean-Paul Chaput 4a65a8d4e7 Added GDSII driver. Bug in Blif parser.
* New: In CRL, implement a true GDSII driver. The driver is directly under
    CRL and do not use an intermediate structure in vlsisapd. The ASCII
    GDSII is removed.
      Huge polygons are not supported yet. Have to be split up in
    sub-polygons of less than 4000 vertexes.
      Symbolic layout can be exported to give a rough idea of the layout
    but RDS expension is not applied. Symbolic composite layers are
    expansed into their basic layers so the design *looks* normal.
* Deprecated: In CRL, remove all traces of the old XML configuration
    parsers. No one needs them now, including Chams.
* Bug: In CRL::BlifParser, before blindly loading the model of a subckt
    from disk with AllianceFramework, checks if it is in the Catalog
    first. Load with AllianceFramework only cells that are in the
    Catalog.
      This prevent a file of the same name than a model to be loaded
    shadowing the later defintion of the model in the Blif file.
      All this is due to the fact that Blif could be non-ordered for
    the models...
* Change: In Hurricane::BasicLayer, the "extract number" is replaced
    by a GdsLayer and GdsDatatype to generate accurate GDS files.
    Even if datatype is 0 most of the time.
      Update all the "technology.conf" files in CRL to provide those
    two numbers.
2018-05-15 13:12:00 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 41c9959e30 Added support for diagonal wires (45° and 135°)
* New: In Hurricane::Diagonal, new object to represent 45° and 135°
    segments (X routing). Althought they have source & target, they
    are not articulated like Horizontal & Vertical, due to the
    combined displacement of X and Y (diagonal).
      Maybe we should create a common class for all the polygons
    to make "::getContour()" a method.
      Now we could represent self capacitances and high frequency
    wires.
2018-05-07 13:46:44 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 6ed8de5837 Added latest doc compilation to avoid rebuild. 2018-05-05 00:23:44 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 0902b21f23 Added support for huge approximated polygons (for photonics).
* New: Hurricane::Triange as been renamed into Hurricane::Polygon.
    Add support for convex polygons. Polygon are approximateds by
    excess by a manhattan rectilinear polygon (with potentially
    thousands of vertexes). To reduce the memory footprint,
    compaction techniques reducing by at least a factor 4 has been
    implemented. We could go further by only storing the non-repetitive
    part of the edge (defined by the integral fraction dY/dY).
    We will see, if the program slows too much.
      The manhattan approximate is always computed but displayed
    only if the polygon grid step is greated than 4 pixels.
      The level of approximation of the polygons can be controlled
    through the "DbU::_polygonStep" parameter.
* Change: In CRL/coriolisInit.py and CRL/helpers/Technology.py, regroup
    all DbU related parameters into "technoConfig" (i.e. suppress
    "viewerConfig"). Update all the relevant technology.conf configuration
    files.
      Change the loader behavior so that "technoConfig" is read first
    and is now responsible for creating the Technology of the DataBase.
* New: In Hurricane::CellWidget, added support for displaying mahanttanized
    polygons.
* Change: In documenation/scripts/expample/polygons.py, perform (I hope)
    a comprehensive test of the polygons (check all slopes, clockwise and
    conter-clockwise).
* New: In Hurricane::DbU, added template to manage vector<> of DbU.
    Support for the "polygonStep" parameter.
2018-05-04 17:06:41 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 1a338f620c Corrections in the Dijkstra global routing (ripup) mechanism.
* Bug: In Anabatic::Dijkstra, the degree of a vertex (the number of neighbors
    belonging to the same net) was miscalculated. This was leading, in the
    materialize step to some feed-through vertexes not being broken.
    Leading in turn to incomplete transformation of the detailed routing.
      Also in _trackback(), the degree of the first vertex we were backtracking
    from was not incremented.
* Bug: In Anabatic::Dijkstra::materialize(), systematically use
    GCell::breakGoThrough() on both source and target. This is needed when
    we are in the ripup phase as both source and target can be go-through.
      This was also leading to incomplete detailed routing transformation.
* Change: In Anabatic::Edge::ripup(), ripup one third of the segments instead
    of thoses exeeding the global length threshold. This way we are sure to
    desaturate an edge. Needs to be further calibrated.
* Change: In Aanabatic::GCell::breakGoThrough(), no longer return NULL.
    Return existing gcontact if any. Break if it is a go-through and create
    a new gcontact in last resort. Maybe rename this function.
* New: In Anabatic::Configuration, new parameters:
    - anabatic.edgeHScaling, to adjust the length of the horizontal edges
        relative to the vertical ones (this is a ratio).
    - anabatic.globalIterations, set the maximum number of ripup passes
        of the global router.
* New: In CRL/etc/*/kite.conf, added new parameters anabatic.edgeHScaling
    and anabatic.globalIterations.
* New: In Katana::GlobalRoute::DigitalDistance, take into account the new
    edgeHScaling factor. Must be used when the capacity of V-edges differs
    greatly for H-edges (case of AMS 350nm c35b4 for instance).
* Bug: In Katana::GlobalRoute::DigitalDistance, the historic cost is
    computed for an edge length of "1". Must be multiplicated by the
    current edge length to have any measurable effect.
      This bug is finally explaining why the ripup was producing the
    same solutions over and over, the historical cost was negligible!
2018-04-16 12:10:48 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 80dcd264bb Allow nearest Track selection in Katana::RoutingPlane::getTrackByPosition().
* Change: In Katana::RoutingPlane::getTrackByPosition(), when requesting a
    track less than *one pitch* beyond the last one, return the last one
    instead of NULL. Only if the mode allows it (i.e. Nearest or Inferior).
2018-04-13 15:06:15 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 580ca0892c Correct rounding of GCell horizontal size in GCell::doGrid().
* Change: In Anabatic::GCell::doGrid(), the GCell where square using the
    slice height as side. This was leading to vertical edges with slightly
    different capacities when the vertical picth was not a multiple of
    the horizontal one. This was not a bug per se as the global router
    is able to manage any interval.
      Now the horizontal side is rounded on the slice step.
2018-04-13 15:00:13 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput cabbab5140 Correct interval capacity computation around zero in RoutingLayerGauge.
* Bug: In CRL::RoutingLayerGauge::divide() & getTrackNumber(), the number
    of traks crossing an edge was wrongly computed for GCells around the
    zero coordinate, this was due to the change in rouding direction
    around zero. It was starting to show for routing gauges with an offset.
      Note: to simplificate the computation of the capacity of an interval,
    all the track over a Cell are computed from (0,0). The Cell abutment
    box has to be choosen relative to that. The tracks positions are fixed
    all over the Cell (or chip if it is one).
2018-04-13 14:59:40 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 6b4baad8b9 More non-deterministics behavior corrections.
* Bug: In Hurricane::Cell_SubCells collection, order the set<> of Cell
    with Entity::CompareById instead of pointer values.
* Bug: In Hurricane::Component_ConnexComponents::Locator, sort the
    set<> of Components with Entity::CompareById instead of pointers.
* Bug: In Hurricane::Occurrence::operator<(), uses Ids to compare
    both _entity and _sharedPath. Check for NULL pointers.
* Change: In Hurricane::IntrusiveMap, add a debug output in _resize()
    like for IntrusiveSet.
      Note to myself : despite their names, InstrusiveMap are hash
    tables and not map<> in the STL sense.
* Bug: In CRL Core, Vst parser, sort the CellVectorMap on Ids.
* Bug: In CRL::NamingScheme::toVhdl(), sort the set<Cell*> models on Ids.
* Bug: In CRL::toVhdlName(), sort the set<Cell*> models on Ids.
* Bug: In CRL::getInstancesCount(), sort the map<Cell*,size_t>
    gatesByMaster on Ids.
2018-04-08 16:58:55 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 2465d12c87 Merge branch 'devel_anabatic' of ssh://bop-t/users/largo2/git/coriolis into devel_anabatic 2018-03-27 23:56:09 +02:00
EricLaoGitHub 457b4f0acb Minor modification for Analog wire occupation estimation
In Dijkstra.h:
   - Add: accessor to get _sources
2018-03-27 18:29:51 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 5a02d1ad3b Do not take into account segment when the overlap is zero...
* Bug: In Katana::Track::addOverlapCost(), check that the overlap is
    not *exactly* zero (exact interval fitting), and do not consider
    them as obstacle (they where raising the infinite flag when they
    where *fixed*).
2018-03-27 18:04:43 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 45f941719d Topology update was not correctly done after layer change.
* Bug: In Anabatic::AutoSegment, Anabatic::AutoContact and derived
    classes, the recursive invalidation mechanism did have cross-call
    troubles.
      - The various AutoContact::_invalidate() now take the flag into
        account instead of resetting it. This is for Flags::Topology
	to be passed along from segments to contacts.
      - In AutoSegment::invalidate(), do not invalidate S/T contacts
        already invalidateds. In the same way, do not invalidate
	aligned segments already invalidateds (save some recursion).
      - In AutoSegment::_changeDepth(), call invalidate with
        Flags::Topology (to force contact update) and Flags::NoCheckLayer
        to avoid disgraceful warnings.
* New: Anabatic::NetBuilder::_do_xG_1M1() with (x >= 2) new set of
    optimized topologies when there is multiple globals but only one
    terminal. The default one was making two connections to the same
    RoutingPad, which was making clutter.
2018-03-27 18:03:51 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 0fa6f8be9b Determinism correction of Hurricane, CRL core & Katana.
* Bug: In Hurricane::Cell::uniquify(), a set<Cell*> sorted on pointers
    was remaining. Now sorted on Entity::Id.
* Bug: In CRL::VhdlEntity, in the driver, the components where driven
    in pointer order (set<> again). Now use ids.
* Bug: In CRL/etc/scn6m_deep_09/technology.conf, the symbolic extentions
    for VIAs and layers were wrong. Have to be multiplied by two.
* Change: In AnabaticEngine, AutoContact and AutoSegment LUTs are now
    sorted on Entity::Id. Should not have had any impact, but better
    safe than sorry.
* Change: In KatanaEngine, Symmetric contraint map<> is now sorted on
    Entity::id. Idem for TrackSegmentLut.
2018-03-25 00:58:22 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 23cb020ed3 Fix in 180/scn6m_deep_09, forgot to setup metal layers mininal spacing.
* Bug: In CRL Core, etc/180/scn6m_deep_09/technology.conf the minimal
    spacing for the metal layers layout were not set, allowing the
    router to place VIAs too close to each others. This was generating
    either DRC errors or short-circuits.
2018-03-21 17:32:05 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput e5892ab855 Bug: In singleGCell(), make dogleg for misaligned metal1 pins.
* Bug: In Anabatic::NetBuilder::singleGCell(), in HV mode, check if the
    two adjacent metal1 pins at least share a vertical span. If not,
    create a dogleg.
2018-03-21 16:06:55 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput add2136562 Forgotten isobar header for Triangle. 2018-03-20 11:56:15 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 14fd994f69 Added first suppport for Polygons (Triangles). 2018-03-20 11:49:04 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput d9ac21e594 Forgotten HTML files in PythonTutorial. 2018-03-19 18:14:38 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput d4913dfb22 In documentation/examples, doChip now can be run through cgt. 2018-03-19 17:09:30 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 8434b01457 Add missing 'anabatic.routingGauge' parameter for scn6m_deep. 2018-03-19 14:16:05 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 3a6760f52a Bad guessing of the output of zero_x0 & one_x0 in BlifParser.
* Bug: In CRL::BlifParser::Model::staticInit(), when looking for the
    output of the Cell, discard power supplies *and* automatic Nets.
2018-03-19 12:55:22 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 2a36a72e34 Improve error messages about parameters in PyOccurrence constructor. 2018-03-18 23:29:57 +01:00
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 59917680cb In BlifParser, revert gnd! and vdd! to vss and vdd. 2018-03-08 15:53:02 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput c7b8902c77 In documentation, if sphinx is not found, install the pre-generated doc. 2018-03-08 14:55:06 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 8f25b97271 Improve Edge ripup method. Improve two-metal terminal management.
* New: In Anabatic::Edge::ripup(), sort edges to ripup by decreasing
    length so the longest gets riped up first.
      In two metals mode, ripup all segments *except* those who have
    terminal contact in the GCell, because they must use it anyway.
* Bug: In Anabatic::GCell::getEdgeAt(), the size hint flag was not
    correctly selected, leading to the use of an edge in the wrong
    side. So deleted segments where not deleted from their edges,
    leading to core dump. Don't understand how it can have not shown
    until now.
* New: In KatanaEngine::annotateGlobalGraph(), for two metal gauges,
    decrease the edge capacity on both north and south side for each
    terminal in the GCell. As a terminal must be accessed through
    north or south it blocks the whole vertical track (hence both
    edges).
2018-03-06 01:48:44 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput db8675e501 Disable dragging constraints for Device (analog) terminals.
* Bug: In Anabatic::AutoHorizontal::_makeDogleg(), do not take into
    account dragging constraints from perpandiculars if the terminal
    is from a analog Device. We can never drag over it as it is
    forbidden.
      Same modification for AutoVertical.
2018-03-02 16:58:21 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput aa7b6fd620 Correction for the two-metal routing mode.
* Bug: In AnabaticEngine::loadGlobalRouting(), call relaxOverconstraineds()
    only if we are *not* in two-metal mode.
* Bug: In NetBuilder::construct(), allow any number of globals (up to 6)
    when in two-metal mode. Should be sufficent for now.
* New: In AnabaticEngine, new method _updateGContacts() to re-compute
    the positions of the global routing contacts *after* a GCell
    resize.
* Bug: In Katana::Block::resizeChannels(), must call _updateGContacts()
    after the resize to properly shift their positions.
2018-03-02 16:55:01 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput e3d9ab5c23 Merge branch 'devel_anabatic' of ssh://bop-t/users/largo2/git/coriolis into devel_anabatic
Conflicts:
	anabatic/src/anabatic/GCell.h

        Die, GCell::updateGContacts(), Die !
2018-02-21 17:57:38 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput b664eee731 Problem of merging for GCell::updateGContacts(), again. 2018-02-21 17:33:01 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 97d5a1f583 Bad computation of optimal position for analog segments.
* Bug: In Anabatic::AutoSegment::computeOptimal(), the "side stack"
    computing the intersection of all the sides of the GCell that the
    segment is going through was implicitly supposing that the
    resulting intersection wasn't empty. But for analog segment, we
    compute the position of all the segments linked though simple
    doglegs, and as dogleg occurs there can be a sufficient shift
    so the intersections of all the sides became empty.
      Now the "side stack" can manage configuration when instead
    of having an intersection we have a "hole" in the GCell side
    span (only one hole is supported at the moment). When a hole
    is present, the optimal position is the center of the hole.
      Should be refined so that the position is computed according
    to the longest GCell that we go through.
* Change: In Katana::SegmentFsm::_slackenGlobal(), when slackening
    a global from a ananlog net, allow to make a dog leg once
    instead of immediately moving up. The break point is the center
    of the segment.
* Change: In Katana::Manipulator::Makedogleg(DbU::Unit) if the break
    position is over a device, choose the left of right GCell.
2018-02-21 17:03:43 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 793dbb26b2 Capacity managment by layer in Edges & GCells (plus fixes).
* New: In Anabatic::EdgeCapacity, dedicated object to manage the capacities
    of an edge by layer. This needed now because with real technologies
    layers capacities differs (unlike with symbolic technologies).
      This object is separated to be shared between Edges with identical
    characteristics (direction+interval). Deletion is automatic and
    done through refcounting. All the already allocateds EdgeCapacity
    are kept into a set in the AnabaticEngine (key is (direction,interval)).
* New: In Anabatic::Edge, capacities are stored in a shared EdgeCapacity
    object. The total capacity can be annotated (i.e. decreased).
      EdgeCapacity attribute is created during the materialize() call.
    The capacities are computed at this time.
      The incCapacity() function is renamed in reserveCapacity().
* New: In Anabatic::AnabaticEngine, added attribute _edgeCapacitiesLut
    to store the shared EdgeCapacity.
      Lookup/Creation of an EdgeCapacity is done through _createCapacity().
* Change: In Anabatic::Constants, rename Flags::IllimitedCapacity into
    Flags::InfiniteCapacity. Add Flags::NullCapacity (both for Edges).
* Change: In Anabatic::GCell, implement a by depth (for layer) getCapacity().
    This modification did expose a bug in the density calculation :
    per depth density where divided by the complete density instead of the
    density's depth. This was leading to greatly underestimated densities.
    Thoses underestimations where preventing Dijkstra and layer assignement
    to manage congestion correctly (in fact, it was acting as if there
    never was congestion).
      Also avoid a divide by zero (thus -NAN showing in densities).
* Change: In Anabatic::GCell, rename setEdgeOccupancy() into the more
    accurate forceEdgesCapacities().
      Note for Eric: only the first Edge on each side has it's capacity
    forced. What if there's more than one Edge ?
2018-02-21 00:16:50 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 592c098ab2 Basic support for FreePDK 45 completed.
* New: In Commons, inspector support for std::pair<T,U>.
* New: In Hurricane::Layer, ContactLayer & ViaLayer, support for non
    square VIAs. The hole (cut) remains square, but the various metal
    extensions can now be different in X and Y. The ::getEnclosure()
    method now takes a flag EnclosureH / EnclosureV.
* New: In Hurricane::DbU, inspector support for:
         std::pair<DbU::Unit,DbU::Unit>
	 std::array<DbU::Unit,3>
     Must be defined here as DbU do not exists yet in Commons.h
* Bug: In Hurricane::Interval::getSize(), when the interval is "full span",
    do not return the difference between min and max, but directly DbU::Max.
    (the previous result was -1 !)
* New: In CRL Core Python/Technology.py, support for non square VIAs in
    the configuration files. Applied to FreePDK 45.
* New: In CRL::RoutingGauge, added a "symbolic" flag to tell if a gauge
    is for symbolic layout or not. Exported to Python.
* New: In Anabatic::AutoHorizontal::updatePosition(), differentiated
    computation for soure or target taking account of the VIA extension
    in the right segment metal (due to non-square VIAs).
* Change: In Anabatic::AutoHorizontal::_makeDogleg(), the dogleg is
    UP for HV gauges and DOWN for VH.
* New: In Anabatic::AutoSegment::_initialize(), create a cache of the
    various extension length for each layer (viaToTop, viaToBottom,
    viaToSame).
      New implementation of getExtensionCap() using the previous cached
    extension table. See updatePositions().
      New static functions to access the extension cache in the header:
    getViaTotopCap() ...
* Change: In Anabatic::AutoSegment, in various update methods, updateOrient()
    must always be called *before* updatePositions() as extensions are
    dependant on source/target.
* New: In Anabatic::AutoSegment::getEndAxes() compute the position of the
    first source and last target position (center/axes) on an *aligned*
    set of segments.
* New: In Anabatic::AutoSegment, add a new state flag SegAxisFixed to
    signal segments that can be put on only one track. Specific case
    to VH gauge for a M1 vertical terminal with a M2 vertical segment.
    The M2 is effectively bound to the M1 axis position.
* Bug: In Anabatic::NetBuilderVH::_do_xG_xM1_xM3(), in case of E/W global
    and only one RoutingPad the connexion to the RoutingPad was duplicated.
    It was valid, but totally stupid.
* Bug: In Anabatic::Session::_canonize(), for an aligned segment set,
    intersect the user constraints from all segments instead of only
    considering the canonical one.
      Issue a warning about too tight constraints only for symbolic
    gauges. It may be correct for the real ones.
* New: In Katata::DataNegociate::update(), more accurate computation
    of the perpandicular free interval. Use segment extension cap
    calculation. Create a special case for fixed axis segments allowing
    them to find alternative free interval, try under source and under
    target as they are likely to be draggable segments.
* Change: In Katana::Manipulator::relax(), use the extension cap value
    to compute the axis of the perpandicular segemnts.
* Change: In Katana::Manipulator::moveUp(), now move up the whole set
    of aligned segments instead of just the canonical one.
* Change: In Katana::NegociateWindow::loadRoutingPads(), more accurate
    TrackMarkers insertions for fixed terminals.
* New: In Katana::RoutingEvent::Key::Compare::operator(), segments with
    fixed axis are processed prior to any others.
* New: In Katana::RoutingEventLoop, store segment pointers instead of
    ids to generate more accurate error messages.
* Change: In Katana::RoutingPlane::create(), perform local track
    assignment only for HV gauges.
* Change: In Katana::SegmentFsm::_slackenLocal(), add a "dragMinimize"
    step in the automaton. Mutliple states transitions can occurs in
    a row if an action fails.
* New: In Katana::Session::_toIntervalAxis(), normalize interval
    bounds so they are on track positions (by shrinking the interval).
* Bug: In Katana::TrackMarker CTOR, the weigh computation was wrong.
2018-02-17 20:27:38 +01:00
EricLaoGitHub 0fba4695b8 Correction de la position des GContacts
*BUG: Ajouts méthodes de correction de position de GContacts.
2018-02-05 15:41:42 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 7bcf47212b Improved management of AutoContactTerminal for VH gauges (real ones).
* New: In Anabatic & Katana, add the new "drag" feature.
    With VH gauges used by real technologies (M1-H, M2-V, M3-H) a new
    routing configuration that was not efficiently handled did appear.
      While the preferred routing direction for metal1 is officially
    horizontal, due to the way the standard cell must be designed,
    their metal1 terminals are still verticals (or punctuals).
      Thus, when connecting to them, we face the case where the metal1
    terminal (RoutingPad) is vertical *and* the metal2 wire is also
    vertical. With that setup, the position of the AutoContactTerminal
    via12 cannot be deduced, it may range all the way over the
    metal1 RoutingPad. What may define it's position is the metal3 the
    metal2 finally connects to. That, is, when we have one horizontal
    (the metal3) and one vertical (the metal1 RoutingPad).
      The intermediate wire of metal2 can be kept to a minimum size
    by "dragging" the via12 close to the via23 when the metal3 wire is
    moved.
* New: In Anabatic & Katana, problem of closely vertically aligneds
    RoutingPads in metal1 is managed first in PreProcess by restricting
    the span of the connecteds metal3 and in _makeDogleg also by restricting
    the span even more tightly (to the RoutingPad itself).
* New: In Anabatic::AutoContactTerminal, add the "drag" support.
    Automatically check if the connecting segment is in the same
    direction as the RoutingPad, if so, sets the "SegDrag" flag.
      The dragging state can be known with the "::canDrag()" predicate.
* New: In Anabatic::AutoHorizontal, add the "drag" support.
    The drag state can be known with the "::isDrag()" predicate.
      In "::_makeDogleg()", when making a dogleg on a dragable segment
    pass the drag state correctly and restrict the perpandicular span
    of the perpandicular to the RoutingPad (though segment user constraints).
    If we make a dogleg on the metal2 is it likely than we cannot go
    straigth out vertically from the RoutingPad, so the new perpandicular
    *is* restricted to the RoutingPad span.
      Idem for AutoVertical.
* New: In Katana::Manipulator, add method "::dragMinimize()" which find a
    hole where to minimize a draggable segment. We finally did not use it,
    but keep it for potential further use.
* New: In Katana::PreProcess, adds a "protectAlignedaccesses()" local
    function to check for vertically aligned metal1 RoutingPads, in that
    case setup user constraints on the metal3 segments so they cannot
    completly cover the other RoutingPad with metal2.
      We also keep a "metal2protect()" function that create a fixed segment
    to lock/protect a RoutingPad. Not used for now.
* New: In Katana::Session, add a RoutingPad locking event mechanism.
    This allows us to request the creation of a locking (fixed segment)
    over a draggable segment. Not used for now.
      Lock events are processeds before all others as they create new
    TrackElements.
* New: In Katana::Track, "::getNextFree()" and "::getPreviousFree()"
    method to find the nearest free interval in a Track after/before a
    position.
* Bug: In Anabatic::AutoHorizontal::getConstraints(), merge with user
    constraints *only* if it's not an empty interval (as we use min/max
    functions). Idem for AutoVertical.
* Bug: In AutoSegments_OnContacts::Locator::isValid(), the boolean test
    must be inverted. Seems it never worked, but we never used it until
    now...
2018-01-25 11:58:04 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 19bdba0fcb Working aspect ratio and feed cell loading in Etesian.
* Bug: In Etesian::setDefaultAb(), the abutment box was miscalculated,
    it was always square.
* Bug: In Etesian::_postCreate(), improper loading of filler cells.
    Now we first try to find in memory (DataBase::getCell()) and if
    not found try to use the AllianceFramework loader.
      This is not a clean strategy. We should have something more
    clear.
2018-01-10 17:46:11 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput ba3ddafdf5 Adjustements for analog routing.
* Change: In Anabatic::GCell::doGrid(), remove the "3 slice height"
    limit (for small digital analog blocs).
* Bug: In Anabatic::NetBuilder::setStartHook(), perform a check for
    a RoutingPad still on a Plug. Diplay an error instead of crashing.
* Bug: In CRL::RoutingLayerGauge::getTrackIndex(), the upper bound
    of the track interval must be included instead of excluded.
* New: In Hurricane::Cell, add a StayOnPlugs flags for flattenNets().
    To keep the RoutingPad occurrences on Plug instead of selecting
    physical components.
* New: In Isobar::PyNet, add setAutomatic() and isAutomatic() to the
    interface.
* Bug: In Katana::protectRoutingPads(), do not create protections on
    PinOnly layers (mostly metal1).
2018-01-10 12:45:00 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 95aba574a5 Happy New Year 2018 ! Update license years... 2018-01-06 17:55:44 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 757451b324 Upgrade of Katana for support of real technologies.
* Bug: In Katana::PreProcess::protectCagedTerminals(), the contacts of
    the fixed segment must be fixed too.
* Change: In Katana::RoutingPlane constructor, more accurate computation
    of the extensionCap (for real technologies).
* Bug: In Katana::DataNegociate::update(), the perpandicular free
    interval must be shrunk of the extensionCap of the perpandicular
    layer. This problem did show with metal1 "half-offgrid" terminals.
* Change: In Katana::runGlobalRouter(), increase the number of ripup
    passes to ten. Display the overloaded edges and the related nets.
2018-01-06 17:08:38 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 9b2648241d In Anabatic/Katana, add support for VH gauges (real technos).
* Change: In Anabatic::AutoContactTerminal::getNativeConstraintBox(),
    when the anchor is a RoutingPad (which must be always the case),
    perform the true computation of it's position based on the
    segment occurrence. It is a important change, previously the
    area was in fact the "center line" of the connector while now
    it is really an area (mandatory for "half-offgrid" terminals of
    real technologies).
      The change is not complete yet, the area should be shrinked
    by the half size of a VIA, because the area applies to the center
    coordinate of the VIA (to be done quickly).
* Bug: In Anabatic::AutoContactTurn::updateTopology(), when a dogleg
    is created (restore connexity after a layer change) the layer of
    the VIA, based on the segments it connects to must be re-computed
    *after* the dogleg has been made.
* Change: In all files of Anabatic, when comparing two layers, no longer
    use the Layer pointer itself, but the layer mask. This allow a
    transparent management of both real and symbolic layers (which
    do share the same mask). Real metal layers (not VIAs) will be
    BasicLayer and symbolic metal layers will be RegularLayer.
* New: Anabatic::Configuration::selectRpComponent(), select the best
    RoutingPad component for metal1 terminals. Look for the metal1
    component with the biggest accessibility on-grid.
      RoutingPad using other metals are left untoucheds.
* New: New function Anabatic::Vertex::getNeighbor(Edge*) to get the
    neighbor Vertex through an Edge*. This method allows to write
    clearer code as we no longer need to access the neighbor through
    the underlying GCell.
      Also add proxies for GCell methods in Vertex.
* Bug: In Anabatic::Dijkstra::_toSources(), in the ripup stage, when
    a component with multiples vertexes is reached *and* two of it's
    vertexes are reached *at the same time* (one from which we backtrack
    and one still in the queue) extraneous edges may be created by
    _materialize(). Case occurs on snx/c35b4, "abc_5360_n903_1".
      To solve this, Dijkstra::_toSource() is modificated, the "from"
    edges of the newly reacheds vertexes are reset to NULL, *except*
    for the one we will be backtracking from. That is, the one given
    in the source argument.
* Change: In Anabatic::NetBuilder class, put the various Hooks and
    RoutingPad sorting functions as class ones.
* Bug: In AutoSegment::setLayer(), raise the SegInvalidatedFayer flag.
    This unset flag was causing AutoContactTurn::updateTopology()
    to not work as expected and making gaps, this was the cause of
    the last remaining warnings about layer connexity.
2018-01-06 16:55:53 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 3d0431b238 In CRL, update real conf. files. Smarter management of pin in LEF parser.
* Change: In CRL Core, etc/, update the configuration files of real
    technologies. Mostly for FreePDK 45. This work is also done for
    AMS c35b4 (350nm) but in a private (SoC) git repository.
      Added a new parameter 'lefImport.minTerminalwidth' for the
    minimum size (width) of a metal1 terminal in standard cells.
      Corrected bug of the minimum trace level which must be
    initialized to a great value and *not* zero;
* Change: In CRL Core, BlifParser, detect when there is no tie low
    or tie high defined, issue an error (connexion left open) but
    continue.
* New: In CRL::RoutingLayerGauge, new overlad of getTrackPosition()
    with the parameter set of getTrackIndex(). Used to know if a
    terminal is on-grid or not.
* New: In CRL::LefImport, smarter management of metal1 pins. Adds a
    _pinPostProcess() function to select the external components
    among the various shapes. If the gauge is VH, all the pin rectangles
    are translateds into vertical segments (even if the metal1 gauge
    says the tracks are horizontals).
      The _pinPostProcess() function adds as external components of
    a net, only the segments of a sufficent width as given in
    'lefImport.minTerminalWidth' and that are on-grid.
2018-01-06 16:18:33 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 3e115eb056 In Etesian::AddFeed, do nothing if no feed of a suitable width is found. 2018-01-06 15:15:35 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 864b031b6a Disable backtrace generation in Hurricane::Error constructor.
* Change: In Hurricane::Backtrace constructor, add a boolean parameter
    to enable/disable the actual backtrace generation.
* Change: In Hurricane::Error constructor, disable by default the
    backtrace generation. The backtrace is useful when the Error is
    thrown, and the program therefore stopped. But in many case we
    just issue the error message on the console and try to continue.
    But if the backtrace is enabled, it terribly slow down the
    program.
      Have to think about an clean way to re-enable the trace only
    when the exception is thrown.
2018-01-06 15:13:20 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 24d8fe5957 Cleaner support for real technologies (Hurricane, CRL Core configuration).
* Change: In Hurricane::Technology, in all the layer connexity methods
    (getLayers(), getMetalAbove(), getCutAbove(), getViaBetween(), ...)
    the "useWorking" parameter is replaced by a more accurate "useSymbolic".
      BEHAVIOR CHANGE: formerly, if a symbolic layer was requested, and
    none was found, NULL was returned. Now, if the symbolic layer is not
    found, we try to return the associated real one (same layer mask,
    but not flagged as symbolic, and usually with a lowercase name).
      All thoses changes have been propagated to Python bindings.
* Change: In Hurricane::BasicLayer and derived classes, rename the
    "isWorking" attribute into "isSymbolic" (to match the technology
    renaming).
* Change: In Hurricane::Cell::flattenNets(), ignore power, ground and
    blockage nets for the flatten.
* Change: In CRL Core, in coriolisInit.py and Technology.py helpers,
    rename the tables describing the technology as follow:
      - symbolicLayersTable --> compositeLayersTable
      - workingLayersTable  --> symbolicLayersTable
      - symbolicRulesTable  --> layersExtensionsTable
    This is to give the table names a more clearer semantic after
    merging real technologies configurations (testbench AMS c35b4).
      In particular, we need to define a composite layer for the
    real VIAs, and not only the symbolic ones. And with correct
    enclosures expressed in real dimensions (microns).
2017-12-27 13:13:29 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 24d5e9f172 The min debug level has to be high (10000) and not zero.
* Bug: In Hurricane the ::tstream class must be initialized with a
    minLevel of 10000 instead of zero, as the minLevel go *towards*
    zero as the debug slice [min:max[ is expanded by DebugSession.
      This default value must be repeated in the CRL::System CTOR
    and in the coriolis2/etc/commons/misc.conf.
* Bug: In Hurricane::IntrusiveSet, uses "tsetw(n)" dedicated cdebug
    stream manipulator instead of the STL one.
2017-12-21 17:29:29 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput a75c77626c More meaningful names in Anabatic::NetBuilder. Use of isTwoMetals(). 2017-12-19 00:28:38 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput f87bcf717c Complete the modularization of the detail routing converter.
* New: In Anabatic::NetBuilder, set all the attributes as private and
    create accessors and mutators.
      Finish virtualising all GCell build methods and transfer them
    into the NetBuilderHV class.
      Build methods now return a boolean to tell if the GCell was
    processed or not, to allow cascading in the "big switch".
      Reorganise the "big switch" in separate sections only partially
    cascading.
      Truly fuse the *big switch* for channel routing and over-the-cells.
      Create a new method "_do_globalSegment()" to delagate the
    drawing of global segments between two GCell to the derived classes.
2017-12-18 18:15:14 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput e17a50ca0b Suppress all static attributes & methods from Anabatic::NetBuilder. 2017-12-17 12:51:04 +01:00