mayo@pa.dec.com (Bob Mayo) (05/21/91)
Here's an updated list of Magic notes, as well as a copy of note 17 which
seems important enough to post.
To get these notes, FTP them from:
machine: gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2)
account: anonymous
password: guest
directory: pub/DEC/magic
--Bob Mayo
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Magic Note #1 - 9/14/90 - Magic V6 is ready (a copy of the announcement)
Magic Note #2 - 9/19/90 - Documentation changes (fixed in releases after 9/20/90)
Magic Note #3 - 9/19/90 - Mode problem on graphics files (fixed in releases after 9/20
Magic Note #4 - 9/19/90 - rindex macro for new HPUX releases (7.0 and later)
Magic Note #5 - 9/19/90 - compiling magic using "gcc", one user's experience
Magic Note #6 - 9/19/90 - Public FTP area for Magic notes
Magic Note #7 - 9/20/90 - Compiling rsim, one user's suggestions & hints
Magic Note #8 - 9/26/90 - Magic tries to open bogus directories
Magic Note #9 - 9/26/90 - Mods to X11Helper to prevent core dump if run under shell
Magic Note #10 - 10/5/90 - Magic V4 for DOS and OS/2
Magic Note #11 - 10/11/90 - reducing memory usage by 600k
Magic Note #12 - 12/19/90 - fixes bug in extflat that caused dropped resistances
Magic Note #13 - 12/19/90 - fixed bug in resis that caused coredump.
Magic Note #14 - 12/19/90 - new version of scmos.tech to support res extraction.
Magic Note #15 - 12/19/90 - contact line in tech file improperly documented
Magic Note #16 - 12/19/90 - bug fix to transistor attributes
Magic Note #17 - 5/13/91 - Incorrect arrays in calma output
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Magic Note #17 - 5/13/91 - Incorrect arrays in calma output
Magic sometimes produces incorrect arrays in calma output --
they are shifted from the correct position. I cannot
repeat the problem here at DECWRL. Perhaps the newish Cadence calma
software I'm using fixes the problem, and only older versions can't
read magic's arrays. In any event, if you use Magic's calma
generator on arrays please check the output with another tool.
One possible solution is to force magic to output arrays as individual
cell instances. This can be accomplished with the following
command:
:calma flatten
To make this the default, put the command in your
~cad/lib/magic/sys/.magic file or change the constant
CalmaFlattenArrays in file calma/CalmaWrite.c to TRUE.
--Bob Mayo