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How to copy stdVia from lower level cell to top (according to some area) ?

Charley Chen
Charley Chen over 3 years ago

Hi All,

Hierarchy layout cells and use many stdVia/customVia in each cell , How to copy each stdVia/customVia from bottom to top to a new cell ?

Support  asign bBox (all bBox / assign bBox  )

|---  Top Cell                                                            --->   Top Cell New

| -------A Cell /B Cell  (stdVia : M2_M1/M3_M2...)

|-----------C Cell .(stdVia : M2_M1/M3_M2...)

Thank you very much,

Charley

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 3 years ago

    Something like this should do it:

    procedure(CCFcopyViasToTopLevel(bBox @key (cv geGetEditCellView()) 
            (start 0) (stop 32))
        let((hierShape)
            foreach(hierVia dbViaQuery(cv bBox start stop)
                if(listp(hierVia) then
                    hierShape=car(last(hierVia))
                else
                    hierShape=hierVia
                )
                dbCopyFig(
                    hierShape
                    cv 
                    dbGetHierPathTransform(hierVia)
                )
            )
            t
        )
    )

    You can then call: CCFcopyViasToTopLevel(geGetEditCellView()~>bBox) to copy all in the top-level cellView's bounding box, or you could give a different area to the function. If you don't want it to copy the top-level vias that are already present, you can pass ?start 1 to the function.

    Andrew

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 3 years ago

    Something like this should do it:

    procedure(CCFcopyViasToTopLevel(bBox @key (cv geGetEditCellView()) 
            (start 0) (stop 32))
        let((hierShape)
            foreach(hierVia dbViaQuery(cv bBox start stop)
                if(listp(hierVia) then
                    hierShape=car(last(hierVia))
                else
                    hierShape=hierVia
                )
                dbCopyFig(
                    hierShape
                    cv 
                    dbGetHierPathTransform(hierVia)
                )
            )
            t
        )
    )

    You can then call: CCFcopyViasToTopLevel(geGetEditCellView()~>bBox) to copy all in the top-level cellView's bounding box, or you could give a different area to the function. If you don't want it to copy the top-level vias that are already present, you can pass ?start 1 to the function.

    Andrew

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  • Charley Chen
    Charley Chen over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew ,

    Thank  you very much .

    Charley

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