* Change: In CRL/etc/cmos/kite.conf, setup correct H/K parameters for
the Katana global router. Value copied from Knik. They give a
faster solution.
* New: In CRL/etc/cmos45/, new symbolic settings adapted to FreePDK 45nm.
Courtesy of N. Shimizu. To be used with NSXLIB.
* New In CRL::System, add "coriolis_top" to the set of pathes available
to the user.
* 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been replaced by a direct call to helpers.Technology.initTechno().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.
* 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!
* 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.
* New: Hurricane::DataBase::getCell() method to search a cell through
all the libraries of *all* the frameworks, not just Alliance.
Also exported in Python interface.
* Bug: In Technology::getNthMetal() the function was not returning the
right metal, there was an offset of one. And when the offset was
0, no metal was even returned. Same fix goes for getNthCut().
The fault was in Mask<>::nthbit().
* Change: In Hurricane::CellWidget, the initial window size is too tiny.
Increase the size from 250 to 500 pixels.
Jean-Paul Chaput