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Automated way for creating custom layout cell view for polygon shapes

Hi All

I need some advice on creating a layout cell view that has a 45 deg rotated square for multiple conductor layers in the PDK.

Can anyone please suggest an automated way to generate this shape for different layers ? (i have lot many layers).

I need to use IC617 Layout XL for this.

thanks

Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago

This would be trivial with SKILL - draw the square once, rotate with the rotate command, and then select it. Then use code something like this:

shape=car(geGetSelSet())
foreach(layer list("M1" "M2" "M3" "M4" "M5") ; whatever you want
newShape=dbCopyFig(shape shape~>cellView)
newShape~>layerName=layer
)

Andrew
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sidm over 4 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

thank you very much Andrew, is there a way to pass coordinates to draw the square / rectangle instead of fixing the one time drawn square ?
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Andrew Beckett over 4 years ago in reply to sidm

Yes - use dbCreatePolygon to create the shape.

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sidm over 4 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

thank you very much Andrew.
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