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Set "color" (double-patterning) of a metal in a PCell

Aldo3
Aldo3 11 months ago

Hello,

Is it possible to set the "color" of a double-patterned metal in a PCell?

Thank you

Best regards

Aldo

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett 10 months ago

    Aldo,

    Are you asking how to do this if you are developing the PCell, or are you asking where you have instances of existing PCells (which you can't edit) and want to set/lock the colors from above on those instances?

    Andrew

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  • Aldo3
    Aldo3 10 months ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hello Andrew,

    I'm writing code for a pcell that create metal shapes of both colors mask1 and mask2, and I would like to have the chance to set color for each shape in the pcell itself

    e.g. rectA = dbCreateRect(...)

           assign mask1 color to rectA

    Thank you

    Best regards

    Aldo

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett 10 months ago in reply to Aldo3

    That would be dbSetShapeColor...

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett 10 months ago in reply to Aldo3

    That would be dbSetShapeColor...

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    Aldo3 10 months ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thank you Andrew

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