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How to fill a bounding box with as many vias as possible

TauStudent

Hi,

I have a bounding box of the parallel area between to layers of metal, and i want to create a skill method to fill that area with as many vias as possible.

this is my first attempt to write a skill program, but it seems like a basic operation every skill programmer probably implemented, so before i sit down to wrestle with it i was wondering maybe someone already have an implementation of it to share ?

Thanks for your time.

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  • TauStudent

    I managed to come up with this solution :

    procedure(fillVias(cid bbox viaName)
    let(()
        tf = techGetTechFile(cid)
        viaDef = techFindViaDefByName( tf viaName)
        viaWidth = 2*car(nth(5 viaDef->params)) + car(nth(6 viaDef->params))
        boxWidth = car(cadr(bbox)) - car(car(bbox))
        boxHeight = cadr(cadr(bbox)) - cadr(car(bbox))
        viasPerRow = int(boxWidth/viaWidth)
        viasPerColumn = int(boxHeight/viaWidth)
        spacex = (boxWidth- viaWidth*viasPerRow)/(viasPerRow + 1)
        spacey = (boxHeight- viaWidth*viasPerColumn)/(viasPerColumn + 1)
        x = car(car(bbox))
        y = cadr(car(bbox))

        for( i 0 viasPerRow-1
           for( j 0 viasPerColumn-1
              point = x+ (i+0.5)*viaWidth+ (i+1)*spacex :y+ (j+0.5)*viaWidth+ (j+1)*spacey
              dbCreateVia(cvId viaDef point "R0")
           )
        )
    ))

    It work fine for my needs, assuming the via width = via height

    and from looking at the viaDef object (viaDef->??) it seems that car(nth(6 viaDef->params)) gives the inner square width and

    car(nth(5 viaDef->params)) gives the margin.

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  • TauStudent

    I managed to come up with this solution :

    procedure(fillVias(cid bbox viaName)
    let(()
        tf = techGetTechFile(cid)
        viaDef = techFindViaDefByName( tf viaName)
        viaWidth = 2*car(nth(5 viaDef->params)) + car(nth(6 viaDef->params))
        boxWidth = car(cadr(bbox)) - car(car(bbox))
        boxHeight = cadr(cadr(bbox)) - cadr(car(bbox))
        viasPerRow = int(boxWidth/viaWidth)
        viasPerColumn = int(boxHeight/viaWidth)
        spacex = (boxWidth- viaWidth*viasPerRow)/(viasPerRow + 1)
        spacey = (boxHeight- viaWidth*viasPerColumn)/(viasPerColumn + 1)
        x = car(car(bbox))
        y = cadr(car(bbox))

        for( i 0 viasPerRow-1
           for( j 0 viasPerColumn-1
              point = x+ (i+0.5)*viaWidth+ (i+1)*spacex :y+ (j+0.5)*viaWidth+ (j+1)*spacey
              dbCreateVia(cvId viaDef point "R0")
           )
        )
    ))

    It work fine for my needs, assuming the via width = via height

    and from looking at the viaDef object (viaDef->??) it seems that car(nth(6 viaDef->params)) gives the inner square width and

    car(nth(5 viaDef->params)) gives the margin.

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