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/*! \page CIF CIF Format
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\section cifPres Presentation
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The <b>Caltech Intermediate Format (CIF)</b> consists in a limited set of graphic primitives used to describe the shapes on each layer of an integrated circuit (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech_Intermediate_Form for more informations). \n
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\subsection cifAutrhos Author
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Damien Dupuis: damien.dupuis(at)lip6(.)fr
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\subsection cifLimits Limitations
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Although the CIF format allows hierarchical description and supports several shapes, in this driver, we do not use hierarchy and only use Polygons.
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\section cifDB Stand alone database structure
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The database consists in two simple objects :
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- CIF::Circuit contains all CIF circuit informations such as the name, the unit used, the scale and the list of all Polygons.
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- CIF::Polygon describes a Polygon (a set of points).
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\subsection cifDriver Using the driver
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To drive a CIF file, user has to create one CIF::Circuit and as many CIF::Polygon as the number of shapes of the layout. The CIF::Polygon objects can be created independently from for the CIF::Circuit but must be finally added to the CIF::Circuit using CIF::Circuit::addPolygon().\n
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Once the CIF::Circuit is complete, simply call the CIF::Circuit::writeToFile() method to drive the database to file.
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\section cifExamples Examples
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As said is the global presentation, VLSI SAPD project provides C++ libraries and Python modules for each supported format. In this section we present two simple code examples to drive a CIF file using C++ or Python. These two examples drive the same file \c transistor.cif:
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\include transistor.cif
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\image html transistorCif.png CIF example layout
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\image latex transistorCif.pdf CIF example layout width=.25\linewidth
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\subsection cifC C++
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Here is the C++ code (\c mainCif.cpp) used to generate the transistor.cif file. (Source is available in examples directory).
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\include mainCif.cpp
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\subsection cifPython Python
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Here is the Python code (\c testCif.py) used to generate the transistor.cif file. (Source is available in examples directory).
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\include testCif.py
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\note In order to run the \c testCif.py script, user must ensure that $PYTHONPATH variable points to the directory containing pyCIF.so module.
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*/
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