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Jean-Paul Chaput 3495536268 Third variant for HFNS, trunks mades with Steiner tree (FLUTE).
Note: Keep the various hfnsX.py as toolboxes for future experiments.
* New: cumulus/plugins/block/hfns3.py, build the trunk of the
    net as a RMST. First with the "Iterative One Steiner Point"
    (terribly slow above 100 points) then with FLUTE.
      For the global routing trunk, must be very cautious to
    check that the cluster "graph point" is the one of the
    it's buffer RoutingPad so both end up in the same GCell.
* New: cumulus/plugins/block/timing.py, stub for basic
    timing computation and conversion between sink and
    capacitance. Currently based on the fake 350nm given as
    example in SxLib ("man sxlib"...).
2020-09-30 11:59:51 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput fa062daa99 Tweaks in CRL/helpers Trace & CfgCache.
* Change: In CRL/helpers.Trace, flush stderr before issuing the trace
    message to avoid mixing up stdout & stderr (sometimes misleading).
* Change: In CRL/helpers.overlay.CfgCache, no longer display all the
    applied setting after a call to apply(). Too verbose.
2020-08-11 14:47:03 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 78b7e683e5 Add a context manager to helpers.overlay.CfgCache.
* New: In CRL/helpers.overlay.CfgCache, add support for context manager,
    so we can progressively remove the use of Configuration. One class
    to use in all contexts (immedaite setting or storing a set of
    Cfg parameters).
2020-08-05 01:26:16 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 1e3788d93e New Python class helpers.overlay.CfgCache.
* New: In CRL/helpers/overlay.py, CfgCache class to hold a set of
    configuration parameters and apply it on demand. It has a
    different behavior than Configuration.
2020-08-02 18:09:02 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 17ecfd823b Enhanced techno rule support. Inspector support bug fix.
* Bug: In Hurricane/Commons.h, modify the getRecord<>() templates so
    that for both vector<Element> and vector<Element*>, the individual
    record created for each element are donne with pointers. That is,
    for the vector<Element> case, we take a pointer.
      As a general policy, except for the POD types, always use pointers
    or references to data in the records/inspector. Never uses values
    that can call the copy constructor.
      Suppress INSPECTOR_PV_SUPPORT() macro, keep only
    INSPECTOR_PR_SUPPORT().
      Provide value support only for getString<>() template.
      This value & copy constructor problem was causing a crash when
    trying to inspect Hurricane::AnalogCellExtension.
* New: In Hurricane::Technology, change the API of the PhysicalRule,
    now we can only create/get PhysicalRule, but setting the value of
    the rule itself must be done on the rule.
      Enhance PhysicalRule to provide for stepped rules, non isotropic
    and ratio rules.
      Merge TwoLayersPhysicalrule in PhysicalRule, much simpler to
    suppress the management of derived classes. That means that we
    loose a little memory as some fields are mutually exclusive.
    Not a problem considering that there will not be so many of thoses
    objects.
* New: In CRL/helpers.analogtechno.py, enhanced DTR support for rules
    like:
      ('minSpacing'  , 'metal1', ((0.4,20.0), (0.8,1000.0)), Length, 'REF.1')
      ('minEnclosure', 'metal1', 'cut1', (0.2,0.3)         , Length, 'REF.2')
      ('minDensity'  , 'metal1', 0.30                      , Unit  , 'REF.3')
      The DTR parser has been updated, but not the oroshi.dtr Rule
    cache for analog components. Given a rule name, the value used
    will be the horizontal one of the first step.
* Change: In hurricane/doc/hurricane, re-generate the documentation
    with updated support for Technology & PhysicalRule.
2020-07-21 11:22:04 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 34c1795630 Support for long in CRL/overlay.Configuration.__setattr__(). 2020-07-14 19:55:20 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput e4041d5e26 Improved Hurricane/Python database reset.
* Change: In CRL/helpers/__init__.py, to ensure a complete restart of
    the database the __init__.py must be called again, but it's not the
    case with reload() (see Python doc). So helpers.resetCoriolis()
    must explicitly removes the Coriolis related Python modules from
    sys.modules (calling "del sys.modules[moduleName]").
      That list of Coriolis Python modules is built by calling
    helpers.tagConfModules(), it will tag all modules added to
    sys.modules since startup. It will remove (much) more than
    Coriolis modules, but that should be ok.
* Change: In CRL/etc/{node*,symbolic}/TECH/__init__.py, add a call to
    helpers.tagConfModules() for the techno modules to be erased on
    reset.
2020-07-14 19:49:54 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 9c082230b5 Add forgotten asDouble() method to the Parameter interface.
* New: In vlsisapd/PyConfiguration, add asDouble() to the Parameter
    Python wrapper.
* New: In CRLCore/helpers/overlay, add support for float parameters
    in configuratuon.
2020-06-16 21:33:33 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput a50b6ce317 More PEP8 compliant Python code. Start rewrite Python/C++ wrappers.
* Change: In CRL/helpers, cumulus/plugins, oroshi & karakaze,
    Move towards more Python PEP8 compliance:
      * All indentations sets to 4 spaces (in progress).
      * In plugins, remove messages about software collections
        and RHEL (too many case could wrongly lead to that).
	Instead systematically uses "helpers.io.catch()".
      * Put in lowercases all modules names. Note that C++ exported
        modules *keep* their Capitalized names (to preserve the
	identity with the C++ namespace).
      * When making import, use full path.
      * Rename the run function from "ScriptMain()" to "scriptMain()".
* Cleanup: In CRL/etc, remove obsoleted configuration files,
    the one ending in ".conf". Keep those who have not been ported
    to the new style yet.
* New: In Hurricane/src/configuration, first trial at replacing the
    C preprocessor macros by C++ templates. Applied first to configuration
    from VLSISAPD.
      This is unfinished business, just a limited demonstrator for now.
      It is installed as a separate Python library "Cfg2" which do not
    interact with the rest of Coriiolis.
      The end goal is to fully remove boost and merge VLSISAPD useful
    components directly inside Hurricane.
2020-04-08 11:24:42 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput e9ce33a857 Resistor integration.
* New: In Isobar::PyResistor, manage type RPOLYH and RPOLY2PH.
* Change: In Hurricane::Resistor, rename plate nets from "PIN1" and
    "PIN2" into "t1" and "t2" (try to respect uniform naming scheme).
* New: In Karakaze/AnalogDesign.py, support for reading Resistor
    parameters.
* New: In Orosshi, ResistorSnake.py imported from Mariam Tlili's work
    and associated Resistor.py to make parameter conversion.
      Currently we only uses vertical layout for resistors.
      Added METAL2 horizontal terminals for resistors.
2020-03-30 12:40:29 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 757b95343b Support for full Database clear & restart.
* New: In CRL/etc/node600/phenitec, ported configuration of Phenitec 0.6um
    Compliant with DataBase reset.
* New: In CRL/python/helpers, added function "unloadUserSettings()" to
    unload Python modules prior to a full reset.
      Added "resetCoriolis()" to perform full DataBase reset.
* Change: In CRL::AllianceFramework, make it a derived class of DBo so
    the destroy() is now provided.
* Bug: In CRL::AllianceFramework::getCell(), do not attempt any load if
    the library list is empty. Should never occur except in case of a
    botched databse reset.
* New: In CRL::AllianceFramework, new method "saveCATAL()" to write back
    the catalog of a library and "saveCells()" to write back the cells.
      Note: only cells actually loaded in memory will be write back.
* New: In CRL::Catalog, add method "saveToFile()" to write back the CATAL
    of a library.
* Change: In CRL::ParserDriver, replace "const string&" by "string"
    (improved string support of the GNU STL).
* Change: In CRL::ParserSlot, use string instead of Name.
* Change: In CRL::ApParser, make _layerInformation an ordinary attribute
    instead of a static one. This allow for it's correct resetting
    across databas resets.
* Change: In CRL::VstParserGrammar, reinitialize Vst::framework at each
    parser call. Needed to support database reset.

* New: In Hurricane::DBo, add an object counter to be sure that when
    we perform a reset, no remaining DBo is allocated. This is different
    of the object id which is ever increasing.
      Note that, at reset, we check against "1" remaining element as at
    this point only Database is still allocated.
      Add a new "resetId()" method. MUST NEVER BE CALLED except by
    DataBase::_preDestroy().
* New: In Hurricane::Database, new clear() method to remove the Cells
    of all the libraries in reverse hierarchical depth order.
    Make use of the new CellsSort class.
* Change: In Hurricane::DataBase::_preDestroy(), call "clear()" and
    DBo::resetId().
* Change: In Hurricane::Breakpoint, change the default callback to be
    a static function. So we can restore it later.
* Bug: In Hurricane::Instance::_preDestroy(), there was yet another
    loop of deletion over a collection for the shared pathes.
      Replace it by the repetitive deletion of the first element.
* Bug: In Hurricane::Net::_preDestroy(), RoutingPads must be destroyed
    prior to any other component.
* New: In Hurricane::ColorScale, add a "qtFree()" method for freeing
    the Qt Brush, Pen & Color.
* New: In Hurricane::DrawingStyle, add a "qtFree()" method for freeing
    the Qt Brush, Pen & Color.
* New: In Hurricane::Graphics, add a "disable()" method to call the
    various "qtFree()" of the sub-objects.
2020-02-29 16:55:14 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput e711ce8dd2 More configuration parameters for P&R Conductor, for experimenting.
* Change: In Hurricane::Viewer::ExceptionWidget & CRL/python/helpers/io.py,
    downscale icons for non-HiDPI screen.
* Change: In CRL/etc/common/display.py, change the display threshold of
    METAL1 layer so it do not appear at high scaling.
* New: In Etesian, activate the "setFixedAbHeight()" feature and export it
    to Python. Allows to increase the space margin at constant height.
      To be used by the P&R conductor.
* Change: In Unicorn/cgt.py, when running a script, insert the current
    working directory at head of the sys.path, not at the end. So installed
    modules do not shadow local one.
* New: In Anabatic::Edge, new accessor "getRawcapacity()" to know the full
    capacity of the edge, that is, the real maximum number of tracks that
    can go through the associated side.
* Change: In Katana/BloatProfile/Slice::tagsOverloaded(), bloating policy
    change, now bloat all the instances under the GCell, not only the first
    one.
* Change: In KatanaEngine::runGlobalRouter(), restore the search halo growth
    policy to expanding of 3 GCells every 3 iterations.
      New metrics displayed, the edge wire length length overload.
* Change: In cumulus/plugins/ConductorPlugin.py, now accepts the following
    configuration parameters:
      - "anabatic.globalIterationsEstimate", maximum number of global
        iterations during the bloating computation passes.
      - "conductor.useFixedAbHeight", tells wether the additionnal blank
        space must be added so the aspect ratio is kept or the height is
	kept (and the block become wider).
    Disable the display of "rubber" to unclutter a little the view.
2019-12-15 19:28:54 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 68e45bc5ab Groudwork for routing density driven placement. Compliance with clang 5.0.1.
This commit contains two set of features that should have been commited
separately.
  1. Compliance with clang 5.0.1, tested with the RedHat collection
     llvm-toolset-7. This allow Coriolis to be compiled under Darwin (MacOS)
     with Xcode & macports. The bootstrap install system has been modificated
     accordingly.
  2. The basic support for routing density driven placement. Related
     features are:
     * Bloat property. Each Occurrence of an Instance can be individually
       bloated. This property not attached to any tool to allow the placer and
       router to share it as wanted. Nevertheless, it is defined in Etesian.
     * BloatProfile in Katana, add individual Bloat properties to Instances
       occurrences based on the East & North overflowed edges of each GCell.
     * Support in ToolEngine for a "pass number" of a tool. This pass number
       is mainly used to make "per pass" measurements. The MeasureSet system
       is improved accordingly to support multiple values of a same measure.
     * Embryo of "P&R Conductor" to perform the place & route loop until the
       design is successfully placed. May be the first brick of a Silicon
       Compiler.

* Change: In boostrap/FindBoostrap.cmake, in setup_boost(), added tag to
    the python component for macport (ex: python27).
* Change: In boostrap/build.conf, put etesian before anabatic for
    instance occurrence BloatProperty dependency.
      Added option support for the "llvm-toolset-7" collection to build
    against clang 5.0.1.
* Bug: In Hurricane::getRecord( const pair<T,U>& ), the getSlot<> templates
    for first & second arguments must be called with <const T> and <const U>
    as the pair itself is const (and not simply <T> & <U>).
* Change: In Hurricane::getSlot() temlate, only use "string" arguments and
    not const string&, simpler for template argument deduction.
* Bug: In Hurricane::AnalogCellExtension, the StandardPrivateProperty<>
    template has a static member "_name". Clang did show that the template
    for this static number has to be put inside the namespace where the
    template *is defined* (i.e. Hurricane) instead of the namespace where
    it is instanciated (i.e. Analog).
* Bug: In Isobar, Matrix_FromListOfList(), PyInt_AsPlacementStatus() must
    be put outside the C linkage back in the Isobar C++ namespace (clang).
* Bug: In Hurricane::DBo::~DBo, and derived add a throw() specification
    (clang).
* Bug: In Hurricane::RegularLayer::getEnclosure() & setEnclosure(), change
    signature so it matches the one of the base class (clang).
* Bug: In Hurricane::CellPrinter, use double brackets for initializer list
    (clang).
* Change: In Hurricane::Breakpoint, reverse the meaning of the error level.
    Only error level *lesser or equal* than the stop level will be enabled.
* Bug: In CRL/python/helpers/__init__.loadUserSettings(), must put the
    current working directory in the sys.path as in certain configuration
    it may not be included.
* Bug: In CRL::ApDriver, DumpSegments(), no longer generate segments when
    encountering a RoutingPad on a top-level Pin Occurrence. The segment
    was generated in the wrong direction, creating DRC violations on the
    "mips_core_flat" example.
* Change: In CRL::Measures, partial re-design of the measurements management.
    Now, each kind of measure can accept multiple values put in a vector.
    The index is intented to match a tool run number.
* Change: In CRL::Histogram, add support for multiple sets of datas,
    indexeds with tool run number.
* Change: In CRL::ToolEngine, add support for multiple pass number, add
    addMeasure<> templates for the various data-types.
* Change: In CRL::gdsDriver & CRL::gdsParser(), comment out unused GDS record
    name constants.
* New: Etesian::BloatProperty, property to attach to Instance occurrences
    that contains the extra number of pitch to add to the cell width.
* Bug: In AutoSegment::CompareByDepthLength, the segment length comparison
    was wrong, it was always returning true, which broke the "strick weak
    ordering" of the comparison.
      This was producing a core-dump in GCell::updateDensity() when sorting
    a vector<>. The end() iterator was being dereferenced, leading to the
    problem.
* Bug: In Katana::DataSymmetric::checkPairing(), the test for segments
    whose axis is perpandicular to the symmetry axis was wrong
    ("!=" instead of "-").
* New: In Katana/GlobalRoute, new ::selectSegments(), selectOverloadedgcells()
    and selectBloatedInstances() to automatically select segments from
    overloaded edges, overloaded GCells and bloated cells.
* Change: In KatanaEngine, return a more detailed success state, distinguish
    between global and detailed.
      Add support for multiple routing iterations.
* New: In cumulus/python/plugins/ConductorPlugin.py, embryo of routing
    driven placement.
2019-12-09 01:57:44 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput f38945d200 Various bug fixes (Selection, Measures/Histogram, helpers).
* Bug: In CRL/python/helpers/__init__.py, in textPythonTrace(), when an
    ErrorMessage was catched, the trace parameter was not correctly
    extracted leading to an "exception in exception".
* New: In Isobar/PyCell, exported Cell::getNonLeafInstanceOccurrences()
    collection.
* New: In Isobar/PyTransformation, type is now built so the tp_compare
    is linked to the C++ operator==().
* Change: In Hurricane::SelectionModel, Hurricane::SelectionWidget and
    CellWidget, no longer use Occurrences but directly the Selector property.
      We also use the Selector to know if an Occurrence is selected by
    looking at that property on it's Quark. This avoid a very lengthy
    search in vector when there is many elements (say > 10000).
      NOTE: This is a bad implementation as there is a confusion between
    beeing selected (that is, having a Selector property attached to
    an Occurrence Quark) and being actually displayed as selected.
    This lead to awkward implatation of the various "toggle" methods.
    Have to rethink that more clearly later.
* Bug: In CRL::Histogram, the non-inline template full specialisation
    of Measure<Histogram> must not be put in the header but in the module
    to avoid multiple definition and link failure. They are actually
    real, classic functions.
2019-11-22 00:24:47 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 39cd831a57 Added message when loading the technology/configuration files.
* New: In CRL/python/helpers.io, vprint() wrapper around print to display
    messages according to the verbose level.
      In etc/*, add messages in every configuration files so we may know
    under which we are running.
2019-11-15 14:40:59 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 1e4b8b4647 Added support for extra resistor rules in Hurricane::Technology.
* New: In BasicLayer::Material, added "info" kind of material for layers
    that are only informationals (i.e. not real GDS one). Created to
    store geometric combination of layers, this is a temporary solution.
      Have to define a clearer semantic for that.
* New: In CRL/helpers/AnalogTechno.py, new "Count" type for count numbers
    that must not go through DbU::Unit converter. They are plain integers,
    but stored in DbU::Unit (keeping track of that semantic is left to
    the user).
2019-11-13 16:09:38 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput ef0f6f771a In Python scripts, if PyQt 4 fails to load, try PyQt 5.
* In CRL::Cyclop/CMakeLists.txt, add *again* the MOC files to the list
    of .cpp . Don't know what is happening here with MOC under Qt 5.
* In CRL/python/helpers.io, cleanly fails if neither PyQt 4 nor PyQt 5 is
    found. And tell it directly because this the module tasked to handle
    the exceptions/errors...
* In Cumulus/plugins/AboutWindow.py, try PyQt 4 then PyQt 5.
* In documentation/UsersGuide, now tells explicitely that Qt 4 must be
    used under RedHat 7 and Qt 5 under Debian.
2019-10-30 16:58:43 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 2c73cfe76c Migrating the initialisation system to be completely Python-like.
* New: In bootstrap/coriolisEnv.py, add the "etc" directory to the
    PYTHONPATH as initialization are now Python modules.
* New: In Hurricane/analogic, first groundwork for the integration of
    PIP/MIM/MOM multi-capacitors. Add C++ and Python interface for the
    allocation matrix and the list of capacities values.
* Change: In Hurricane::RegularLayer, add a layer parameter to the
    constructor so the association between the RegularLayer and it's
    BasicLayer can readily be done.
* Change: In Hurricane::Layer, add a new getCut() accessor to get the
    cut layer in ViaLayer.
* Change: In Hurricane::DataBase::get(), the Python wrapper should no
    longer consider an error if the data-base has not been created yet.
    Just return None.
* Bug: In Isobar::PyLayer::getEnclosure() wrapper, if the overall
    enclosure is requested, pass the right parameter to the C++ function.
* Change: In AllianceFramework, make public _bindLibraries() and export
    it to the Python interface.
* Change: In AllianceFramework::create(), do not longer call bindLibraries().
    This now must be done explicitely and afterwards.
* Change: In AllianceFramework::createLibrary() and
    Environement::addSYSTEM_LIBRARY(), minor bug corrections that I don't
    recall.
* Change: In SearchPath::prepend(), set the selected index to zero and
    return it.
* Change: In CRL::System CTOR, add "etc" to the PYTHONPATH as the
    configuration files are now organized as Python modules.
* New: In PyCRL, export the CRL::System singleton, it's creation is no
    longer triggered by the one of AllianceFramework.
* New: In CRL/etc/, convert most of the configuration files into the
    Python module format. For now, keep the old ".conf", but that are no
    longer used.
      For the real technologies, we cannot keep the directory name as
    "180" or "45" as it not allowed by Python syntax, so we create "node180"
    or "node45" instead.
      Most of the helpers and coriolisInit.py are no longer used now.
    To be removed in future commits after being sure that everything
    works...
* Bug: In AutoSegment::makeDogleg(AutoContact*), the layer of the contacts
    where badly computed when one end of the original segment was attached
    to a non-preferred direction segment (mostly on terminal contacts).
      Now use the new AutoContact::updateLayer() method.
* Bug: In Dijkstra::load(), limit symetric search area only if the net
    is a symmetric one !
* Change: In Katana/python/katanaInit.py, comply with the new initialisation
    scheme.
* Change: In Unicorn/cgt.py, comply to the new inititalization scheme.
* Change: In cumulus various Python scripts remove the call to
    helpers.staticInitialization() as they are not needed now (we run in
    only *one* interpreter, so we correctly share all init).
      In plugins/__init__.py, read the new NDA directory variable.
* Bug: In cumulus/plugins/Chip.doCoronafloorplan(), self.railsNb was not
    correctly managed when there was no clock.
* Change: In cumulus/plugins/Configuration.coronaContactArray(), compute
    the viaPitch from the technology instead of the hard-coded 4.0 lambdas.
      In Configuration.loadConfiguration(), read the "ioring.py" from
    the new user's settings module.
* Bug: In stratus.dpgen_ADSB2F, gives coordinates translated into DbU to
    the XY functions.
      In st_model.Save(), use the VstUseConcat flag to get correct VST files.
      In st_net.hur_net(), when a net is POWER/GROUND or CLOCK also make it
    global.
* Change: In Oroshi/python/WIP_Transistor.py, encapsulate the generator
    inside a try/except block to get prettier error (and stop at the first).
2019-10-28 18:09:14 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 5bbeb0b062 Support for separated NDA tree. Big cleanup of the Python init system.
* Change: In Hurricane::Script, when running a script, no longer do it
    inside a Python sun-interpreter, use the current one. This way we
    no longer have our modules initialized twice or more, which was
    starting to be unmanageable (with the NDA support).
      The settings were re-read multiple time to the same value, so it
    was working, but still...
      I hope I didn't left some dangling Python objects now.
* Bug: In Hurricane::LayoutGenerator::drawLayout(), get the device abutment
    box though a Pyhon object *before* finalizing which removes that objet.
* New: In cumulus/plugins/__init__.py, add a "loadPlugins()" and static
    initialisation to preload plugins modules.
      We use that pre-loading step to append to the module __path__ attribute
    the alternate directory where a NDA covered may be found. This assume that
    the directory tree under the NDA root is identical to the one under the
    public root.
* New: In cumulus/plugins/chip/__init__.py, small utility function
    importContants() to import the constants inside another module namespace,
    to have more consise notations.
* Change: In cumulus/plugins/, in the various plugins sub-modules import
    use the full path from plugins, that is, for example:
      from plugins.core2chip.CoreToChip import IoPad
* Change: In Unicorn/python/unicornInit.py, no longer directly load the
    plugins modules, this is now done by cumulus/plugins/__init__.py.
      Instead, iterate through sys.modules for the ones starting by "plugins/"
    and try to execute a Unicorn hook, if present.
* Change: In Karakaze/python/AnalogDesign.py, update for the new Instance.create()
    prototype (added placement parameter).
2019-10-11 17:36:54 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 1b444d8f49 In cumulus/Core2Chip.py forgot a parameter to an error message call. 2019-07-31 19:16:40 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 8ad910301d In CRLcore, new gauge "msxlib4" for compliance with AMS 350nm (symbolic).
* New: In CRL/etc/symbolic/cmos45/kite.conf, new gauge "msxlib4" for both
    routing and cells. Have only 4 metal layers but with all the same pitches
    and width. Differs from the 45nm compliant where pitches double starting
    from METAL4.
* New: In CRL/etc/symbolic/cmos45/plugins.conf, adjust default parameters for
    the clock tree plugin so they are identical to the one of "cmos" (scaling).
* Change: In CRL/python/helpers/io.py, in catch(), do not set up the script
    path here as it is non-informative.
2019-05-29 13:16:01 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 4cd0bcb009 Various bug corrections to pass the alliance-check-toolkit reference benchs.
* New: In Isobar::PyCell, export the isRouted() and setRouted() to the
    Python interface.
* Bug: In CRL::Entity::parseEntity(), check that the closing parenthesis
    is the last character of the net name. Issue a more relevant error
    message.
* In Anabatic::NetBuilder::_do_xG() and all other unimplemented methods,
    throw an error if called from a derived classes instead of just
    issuing a message in the debug stream. Avoid later core dumps...
* In Anabatic::NetBuilderHV, implement the builders for GCells with
    one pin. Needed to support chip/corona routing.
* Bug: In Cumulus/plugins/Chip.py, check that coronaCk exists before
    using it.
* New: In Cumulus/plugins/PadsCorona/Side._placePad(), when routing
    a design with symbolic pads, export the chip external "pad"
    connectors to be able to perform a lvx (otherwise cougar do not
    create external nets).
      In Corona._createCoreWire(), set the minimal gap between the pads
    and the corona to 6 pitches. Empirical value to avoid DRC errors
    with symbolic pads (pxlib).
      When successufully done, mark the Corona cell as routed.
* Bug: In Cumulus/plugins/Core2Chip.IoNet, the regex for vectorizet net
    was wrong, it was allowing only one digit in the index.
* Bug: In Cumulus/plugins/Core2Chip.cmos, correct management of
    pad & corona clock nets. Correct connexion between vdde/vddi.
* Bug: In Unicorn/cgt.py, forgot to execute scripts when in text mode.
2019-05-24 23:57:22 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 3fb746fbef Support for mixing real pads & symbolic core. Wrapper around s2r.
* Change: In Hurricane::Error constructors disable the backtrace generation.
    (*very* slow).
* Change: In Hurricane::Library::getHierarchicalname(), more compact
    naming. Remove the name of the root library.
* New: In Hurricane::Net, new type "FUSED", for component with no net.
    More efficient than having one net for each.
* Change: In CellViewer, BreakpointWidget, use Angry Birds icons.
* Change: In CellWidget::State, use the hierarchical name (cached) as key
    to the state. This allow to load two cells with the same name but from
    different libraries in the widget history.
* Change: In PyGraphics, export "isEnabled()" and "isHighDpi()" functions.
* Change: In CRL/etc/symbolic/cmos/plugin.conf, and
    CRL/etc/common/plugin.conf use the physical dimensions converters.
* Change: In CRL/etc/symbolic/cmos/technology.conf, make the GDS layer
    table coherent with the default Alliance cmos.rds.
* New: CRL/python/helpers/io.py, put ErrorMessage new implementation here,
    along with a new ErrorWidget written in PyQt4. It seems finally that
    PyQt4 can be used alongside Coriolis Qt widgets.
      New ErrorMessage.catch() static function to manage all exceptions
    in except clauses.
* Change: In CRL/python/helpers/, no longer use ErrorMessage.wrapPrint(),
    directly print it.
      Rewrite the utilities to display Python stack traces "textStacktrace()"
    and "showStacktrace()".
* Change: In CRL::AllianceFramework, shorten the names of the libraries.
* Change: In CRL::ApParser & CRL::ApDriver, more accurate translation between
    Alliance connectors (C record) and Hurricane::Pin objects. Pin are no
    longer made square but thin and oriented in the connecting direction.
      Use the new fused net for unnamed components.
* New: In CRL::GdsParser, implementation of SREF parsing, i.e. instances.
    Due to the unordered nature of the GDS stream, instances creation are
    delayed until the whole stream has been parsed and only then are they
    created.
      For the sake of reading back Alliance s2r GDS, we assume that any
    TEXT following a boundary is the Net name the boundary (component)
    belongs to.
      Create abutment box for Cells, computed from the bounding box, so
    the Hurricane QuadTree could work properly.
      Make use of the fused net for unnamed components.
* New: In Cumulus/plugins/chip, complete rewrite of the I/O pad management.
    Now we can mix real (foundry) pads and a symbolic core.
      To cleanly support the de-coupling between the real part and the
    symbolic one we introduce a new intermediary hierarchical level, the
    corona. We have now:
      Chip --> Pads + Corona --> Core.
      At chip level (and if we are using real pads) the layout is fully
    real (excepting the corona).
      The Corona contains everything that is symbolic. It has symbolic
    wires extending outward the abutment box to make contact with the
    real wires coming from the pads.
      In the pad ring we can use corners instances (or not), pad spacers
    or directly draw wires between connectors ring pads.
      Provide two flavors: placement only or full place & route.
    WARNING: If routing in a second step, *do not route* the *Chip* but
    the *Corona*.
* Change: In Cumulus/plugins/clocktree, give the modified Cell an
    additional extension of "_cts" (Clock Tree Synthesis) instead of
    "_clocked", to follow the common convention.
* New: In cumulus/plugins/S2R.py, encapsulate call to Alliance S2R and
    reload the translated Cell in the editor.
* New: In cumulus/plugins/core2chip, provide an utility to automatically
    create a chip from a core. To work this plugins must have a basic
    understanding of the pad functionalities which may differs from
    foundry to foundry. So a base class CoreToChip is created, then for
    each supported pad foundry a derived class is added. Currently we
    support AMS c35b4 and Alliance symbolic cmos.
* Bug: In Anabatic::Configuration, read the right configuration parameter
    "anabatic.topRoutinglayer" (Katana), and not the one for Katabatic...
* Change: In Unicorn/cgt.py, process the plugins in alphabetical order
    to ensure a reproductible ordering of the menus...
2019-05-22 14:34:32 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 3f73b9d033 Anlog integration part I. Atomic devices support (transistors).
* Change: In boostrap, remove support for Chams.
* New: In Hurricane::Technology, added support for DTR rules, UnitRule,
    PhysicalRule and TwoLayersPhysicalrule. Added devices descriptors and
    models descriptors (for Spice). Spice description is not used yet
    but kept anyway in case of future use.
* New: Hurricane::Analog whole library and it's Python interface. This
    provides support for transistors, capacitors and resistors. Only
    transistor support is fully implemented as of now.
* New: In CRL/python/coriolisInit.py, read configuration files for the
    Analog extension (analog.conf & devices.conf). Thoses are optionals
    and a simple warning is issued if not found.
      Added helpers/AnalogTechno.py DTR loading helper.
      Add analog configuration files for 180/scn6m_deep_09.
* New: Oroshi tool that provides actual layout drawing for transistors.
2018-10-01 16:52:17 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 55a29488c9 Correct handling of lambdas & microns in configuration files.
* Bug: In CRL/etc/NODE/VENDOR/Technology.conf, the database must be configured
    as early has possible so the functions ensuring length conversions can
    work correctly (l(v), u(v)). So we can no longer rely on a table to be
    read after the execution of the file. We perform a direct call to the
    helpers.Technology.initTechno() function. And it must be made first
    thing.
      In all tables taking dimensions, we must use one of the converter
    function helpers.l(v), helpers.u(v) or helpers.n(v) so the the value v
    get converted in lambda, microns or nanometer (resp.). Make the
    modifications in all technology.conf and kite.conf files.
* Change: In CRL/coriolisInit.py, remove the technoConfig variable that has
    been replaced by a direct call to helpers.Technology.initTechno().
* Change: In CRL/helpers.Alliance.loadRoutingGaugesTable(), no longer try to
    convert coordinates, they must already be in DbU.
* Change: In CRL/helpers.__init__.py, remove lambdaMode() and micronsMode()
    they could not be made to work as expected. Create l(), u(), n() as
    replacement.
2018-07-16 11:32:40 +02:00
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 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 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 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
Jean-Paul Chaput 95aba574a5 Happy New Year 2018 ! Update license years... 2018-01-06 17:55:44 +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 62a433ad3c In CRL Core, added helpers.overload() to modificate Python tuples. 2017-11-29 17:06:24 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput e51ff95337 Support for non-square routing pitch. Allow loading of "foreign" cells.
* New: In CRL Core, AllianceFramework::getCell(), adds a new Catalog::State
    flags to request the loading of a "foreign" cell. That is, a Cell which
    is *not* in the Alliance libraries, but in *any* library starting from
    the root library. This is a temporary hack to allow the Blif parser to
    run.
* New: In CRL Core, RoutingGauge::getHorizontalGauge() and
    RoutingGauge::getVerticalGauge() to avoid relying on either metal names
    or depth to know the vertical and horizontal default routing
    informations. They return the metal layers gauges *closests* to the
    substrate which are likely to have the lesser pitch.
* New: In CRL Core, BlifParser, new configuration parameters:
    "etesian.cell.zero" & "etesian.cell.one" to figure out what are the
    tielow and tiehigh cells (instead of having the ones from sxlib
    hardwired).
* New: In Etesian, add support for non-square routing pitchs, that is,
    the lowest vertical and horizontal pitches are not equal. Needs to
    work with two pitches (H & V) instead of one.
      The Configuration associated class now also provides the
    RoutingGauge (not only the CellGauge).
      Use a new Configuration setting "etesian.feedNames" to set up
    the names of the filler cells. This a string of comma separated
    cell names.
* New: In Anabatic, Session::_getNearestGridPoint(), use the new
    non-square grid scheme.
2017-11-26 20:31:38 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 20eadc85f3 Bug: LEF/DEF includes in the wrong place. 2017-11-17 15:32:30 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput bc1c7838d1 Reorganisation of technology configuration files.
* Change: In CRL Core, in coriolis2/etc the file an directory structure
    describing the technonolies is modified.
      Before, one technology was split in two: the symbolic part that
    may be shared across multiple real technology and the real technology
    itself. To configure this we needed in ".coriolis2/techno.py" two
    variables:
      * symbolicTechnology.
      * realTechnology.
      After, we duplicate the symbolic technology in each real ones, so
    to configure we only have to refer to one technology with the
    variable:
      * technology.
      Pure sympolic technologies are still availables, associated with
    a dummy real one.
      We provides:
      * 180/scn6m_deep_09  for MOSIS 180nm
      * 45/freepdk_45      for FreePDK 45nm (work in progress).
      * symbolic/cmos      for classical Alliance symbolic.
* Change: In CRL Core python/helpers, SymbolicTechnology.py and
    RealTechnology.py are now grouped under Technology.py.
2017-11-17 11:10:32 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 4e8ac63408 In CRL Core Python helpers, new showPythonTrace().
* New: In CRL Core Python helpers, add a "showPythonTrace()" function to
    custom display the Python stack trace in case of exception. It ha
    been made to look like a gdb trace.
* In Unicorn, cgt.py, use showPythonTrace().
2017-11-03 15:41:29 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 809a91c9c1 Added Routing Gauge for 2-Metal technologies only.
* New: In CRL Core, etc/cmos/kite.conf new routing gauge "sxlib-2M" for
    two metals only technologies.
* New: In CRL Core, python/helpers/kite.py, new parameter to set the
    routing gauge to be used: "kite.routingGauge" (default: "sxlib").
* Change: In CRL/AllianceFramework.cpp, forgot to put the Cell gauges
    and RoutingGauges in the object Records (Inspector).
* New: In pyCRL/PyAllianceFramework.cpp, export the setRoutingGauge()
    function.
2017-08-18 18:16:43 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput bdc474d7fc Quieter helpers initialisation, isderived() alternative to isinstance().
* New: In CRL.python.helpers, all methods make use of the quiet mode to
    allow completly silent initialisation.
      Introduce isderived() function to check the derivation relationship
    of two C++ encapsulated classes by Isobar. The Python isinstance do
    not work, all C++ wrapped classes are of the base type 'type'.
    isderived() uses the MRO mechanism (Method Resolution Order) as a
    workaround. I can't find in the documentation if it's the expected
    behavior or if i did miss something in when building my classes.
2016-12-12 17:06:53 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput b2e955185b Default stratus1.mappingName was not set correctly.
* Bug: In CRL.python.coriolisInit(), when it's not set, the stratus1.mappingName
    configuration variable is equal to "" and *not* "not_set".
* Bug: In Etesian::EtesianEngine::toColoquinte(), followup of the previous
    bug, bad FIXED/PLACED test when the AB is set.
2016-12-07 12:21:40 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 82cff69d9f Complete rewrite of the trace system (now a stream).
* Change: In Hurricane, in Flags add operator overload for "int" type
    and not only "unsigned int". Otherwise the compiler complaints about
    ambiguous overload when using enum values which are considered as
    "int".
      Simpler code for the BaseFlags::contains() method.
      Added implicit conversion from BaseFlags toward bool type.
* Change: In Hurricane, in Commons, complete replacement of the previous
    two trace systems (trace & ltrace) by a stream-based one.
    As it is a true object it is much less fragile than the one based
    on defines (but maybe a little slower).
      Define a reservation table for the trace levels for all the
    Coriolis & Chams components.
* Change: All tools, use the new trace system.
2016-05-17 23:00:06 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 1c7cbbe6f7 Typo in error message raising an exception. 2016-05-06 17:42:05 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput babf23f303 Let the init system guess "stratus1.mapppingName" value.
* Change: In Bootstrap, in coriolisEnv.py no longer sets the environment
    variable STRATUS_MAPPING_NAME (guessed by init).
* Change: In CRL Core, in System CTOR sets the default value for
    "stratus1.mappingName" to "not_set" so the init can known it is not
    set.
      In etc/coriolis2/*/stratus1.conf, do not set "stratus1.mappingName".
      In coriolisInit.py, now guess the value of "stratus1.mappingName"
    if it has not already been set by the user. The complete setting
    process is as follow (decreasing priority):
      1. Setup by the user in his ".coriolis2/setting.py".
      2. A "stratus.xml" file is detected in the current technological
         directory (example: etc/coriolis2/65/cmos065/setting.xml).
      3. Fallback value to "etc/coriolis2/stratus2sxlib.xml".
2016-05-06 13:15:10 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput d2209579ab Modify the init system to manage NDA restriced configuration files. 2016-05-03 13:32:06 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput f2c036ac6d Corrections in C-Python interface required by Analagic (CHAMS).
* Change: In Hurricane, in PyHurricane.h, in all DirectSet*() macros,
    suppress the third parameter giving the function name. It is now
    build from stringification of other parameters.
      The various macros calls are also modificated all througout
    Isobar.
      Added PyAny_AsInt() to convert a Python Int or Long into an int.
    Maybe we should manage only long, because the type difference seems
    ambiguous in Python itself.
* Change: In Hurricane, in PyHurricane.h, in DirectGetBoolAttribute()
    deduce the function name to display in messages from the arguments.
      Idem for DirectIsAFromCStringAttribute(), DirectGetIntAttribute(),
    DirectGetUIntAttribute(), DirectGetDoubleAttribute() and
    DirectGetStringAttribute().
* New: In Hurricane, in PyHurricane.h, new macro DirectGetNameAttribute()
    to build accessors for method returning a Name.
* New: In Hurricane, in PyHurricane.h, new macro DirectSetIntAttribute()
    to build modificators taking int arguments.
* Bug: In Hurricane, in PyHurricane.h, in macro DirectSetBoolAttribute(),
    the check for a boolean PyObject was wrong, leading the macro to
    systematically emit a Python exception.
* Bug: In Hurricane, in PyInstance method table, PyLibrary_create() was
    registered as a NOARGS function, but it *do* have arguments, change
    to VARARGS.
2016-05-01 15:50:27 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 2a40fa7d92 New "obstacleDw" for Kite.
* New: In CRL Core, in RoutingLayerGauge, adds a new parameter "obstacleDw".
    It represents the distance to add from the *edge* of a blockage segment
    to the next *axis* of a routing track. This was previously computed as
    the pitch minus the mimimum half wire width. This works if the pitch
    is *equal* to the wire width plus the minimal distance (edge to edge).
    But if the wire width is less, than it leads to too great a distance
    around obstacles, making them bigger than they are. And potentially
    blocking everything. To summarize:
         before:  obstacleDw = pitch - wireWidth/2  (deduced)
         after:   obstacleDw = explicitly setup, usually:
                               pitch - max(wireWidth)/2
      Modify the Alliance configuration helper and the various kite.conf
    file accordingly.
* New: In Kite, in BuildPowerRails, make use of "obstacleDw" to compute
    the footprint of a blockage.
2016-04-13 18:21:09 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 4262d396e9 Added METCAP layer, for MIM capacitors. 2016-03-06 12:40:23 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 1b7bd9de36 Happy new year 2016! 2016-01-21 00:41:19 +01:00
Jean-Paul Chaput ef9936e87c Support for Net alias names. Blif parser enhancements.
* New: In Hurricane, In Net & Cell, support for Net aliases names.
    Use a structure based on a simple ring of NetAliasHook. The Net
    holds a global map, sorted by names of all the aliases of all Nets.
    Elements NetAliasesHook of the map are slaves of ring whose master
    is an attribute of the Net (it is *not* in the map, as the primary
    name of the Net).
      In case of merge, the aliases of both Nets are merged and the
    name of the merged one become an alias.
      The Cell::getNet() looks in both the Net map and the aliases to
    find a Net by name.
* Bug: In CRL Core, in coriolisInit.py, reoder the loading of the
    configuration files so the real technology is read as early as
    possible to set up the <gridsPerLambda> factor before any lambda
    is actually computed...
* Bug: In CRL Core, in AcmSigda, do not try to fed the file when it
    has failed to be opened. Throw a clean exception instead.
* New: In CRL Core, in Toolbox, add a NamingScheme object to convert
    a design into VHDL compliant names (mainly from Blif/Verilog).
    This is extensible in any case.
* New: In CRL Core, in BlifParser, slightly more informative warning
    messages. Align the loading progress information on the other
    parsers.
      Add a capability to select which component of the design will
    be returned, if there are more than one. Use the "." as separator.
    For exemple you can request "Processor.Alu", which will load
    the "Alu" component from the design in "Processor.blif".
      To be able to save a Blif loaded design, systematically convert
    all the name for VHDL compliance, as it is the format used by
    the Coriolis native files (vst).
      Export the Blif parser to the Python interface.
* New: In Kite, In NegociateWindow, add a counter of the number of
    remaining events. Gives an idea of the ETA...
* New: In Unicorn, in cgt.by, add an option to load a Blif design from
    the command line.
* New: In Cumulus, new RSave plugin to save both netlist & layout.
    Partly redundant with the previous one. Have to better organize
    that later.
2015-04-16 15:40:02 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput db60fe0aa6 New coriolis launcher. Configuration files cleanup.
* Change: In CRL Core, simplify the loading sequence. The technology,
    both symbolic and real is now loaded directly from coriolisInit.py
    and not through the Alliance loader. This was a leftover from the
    time configuration was in XML. Remove others traces of XML loading.
      Remove SYMB_TECHNO_NAME, REAL_TECHNO_NAME & DISPLAY from the Alliance
    environement, as they was no longer used.
      Note that technology *still* need to be loader *after* Alliance
    framework has been initialized.
      Gauge information is moved from <alliance.conf> to <kite.conf>.
* Bug: In Coloquinte, in optimization_subproblems.cxx static variables
    must not be inlined. Generate a problem when linking in debug mode
    (seems the symbol gets optimised out).
* Bug: In Katabatic, in Grid::getGCell(), when the coordinate is *outside*
    the area, do not try to find a GCell, directly return NULL.
* New: In Unicorn, create a generic command launcher named "coriolis" which
    automatically take cares of all environement setup, then run a command
    by default, it's <cgt>, but it can be anything. For example: <zsh>.
2015-04-13 18:54:09 +02:00
Jean-Paul Chaput 393b5a735f Remove simulated annealing placer Nimbus/Metis/Mauka. 2015-03-17 22:50:00 +01:00