[Libre-silicon-devel] Magic CIF output support for LibreSilicon

[Tim Edwards]

Hello David,

> Okey. I just replicated the way you create tech files and tech includes.
> I could just skip the gcc part and just directly include it into your
> scmos.tech generation.

> It looked kind of odd anyway that you're using gcc for generating the tech
> file.

Well, that's not my doing and as far as I know that gcc preprocessing
dates back to 1985.  I attempted once to revamp the whole thing before
it eventually occurred to me that the Orbit 2um process it was based on
was long, long gone and there was not much point in putting any effort
into it.

BUT, that said, I have now figured out what you are doing, which is to
keep the existing SCMOS rules and just make the LibreSilicon process an
additional style for "cifoutput".  That actually seems fine to me,
although I would personally rather abandon the whole existing SCMOS
scheme and start from scratch, as the existing SCMOS tech does not have
any of the several hundred additions I have made to the techfile format
over the course of 25 years.  So if you are "riding on" the existing
SCMOS format, you are starting with a sort of old and hobbled version
of magic.

For purposes of a quick-and-dirty way to get it working with minimal
effort, though, what you have is fine.

					---Tim

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