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 How to streamout a gds and will have an output that is flattened  

Last post Sun, Oct 21 2012 6:28 PM by jorenrefuerzo. 7 replies.
Started by jorenrefuerzo 11 Oct 2012 09:55 PM. Topic has 7 replies.
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  • Thu, Oct 11 2012 9:55 PM

    • jorenrefuerzo
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    How to streamout a gds and will have an output that is flattened Reply

     Hi,

     

    I need a flattened GDS output from a stream out in IC6.1.5, the usual output of the  File>Export>Stream is a GDS file with Hierarchical information.
    Can anyone tell me how to have an output gds file which is in a flattened state?.

     

     

    Thanks... 

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  • Fri, Oct 12 2012 6:48 AM

    • skillUser
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    Re: How to streamout a gds and will have an output that is flattened Reply

    Hi,

    Have you tried looking at Solution 11739836 ?

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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  • Wed, Oct 17 2012 11:56 PM

    • jorenrefuerzo
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    Re: How to streamout a gds and will have an output that is flattened Reply

    Hi Lawrence,

     

    sorry i forgot to mention.. I need it to be executed in command line only, so maybe a use of skill code or etc...

    Thanks,

     

    Joren

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  • Thu, Oct 18 2012 12:35 AM

    Re: How to streamout a gds and will have an output that is flattened Reply

     Joren,

    The same approach as described in the solution could be used from the command line - it uses a trigger in the User Defined SKILL  file - you'd pass this to strmout with the -userSkillFile command line argument.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Thu, Oct 18 2012 3:33 AM

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    Re: How to streamout a gds and will have an output that is flattened Reply

     it worked!.

     Thanks Andrew and Lawrence ...
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  • Fri, Oct 19 2012 1:58 AM

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    Re: How to streamout a gds and will have an output that is flattened Reply

     Hi Andrew and Lawrence,

     

    Looks like the skill script can only flatten into limited levels only... when i tried a bigger block which has a no. of levels, it did not flatten down to the lowest level... Do you have suggestions or inputs?..

    thanks in advance...
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  • Fri, Oct 19 2012 8:34 AM

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    Re: How to streamout a gds and will have an output that is flattened Reply

     Hi,

    Have you tried putting a value larger than 32 for the x_levels argument to dbFlattenInst() SKILL function?  I tested briefly that a value larger than 32 would be accepted and it was, but I don't have a layout with this many levels of hierarchy in it for testing purposes...

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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  • Sun, Oct 21 2012 6:28 PM

    • jorenrefuerzo
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    Re: How to streamout a gds and will have an output that is flattened Reply

     Hi Lawrence,

     

    It seems that the 32 and higher value is working, i just found out that the erros is due to the layout that is to be flattened cannot be checkout out.. it seems that for the script to work. The layout must be editable by the user...

     

    Thanks,

     

    Joren

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