Re: Importing cell library into Electric 7.00

[Steven Rubin]

At 02:16 PM 12/16/2004, you wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> I was trying to test the functionality of Electric 7.00 on another 3-party 
> cell library. The library comes with two LEF files, ie. a technology LEF 
> and a cell library LEF. After a little bit testing and code viewing, I got 
> to know 7.00's LEF import function does not read technology LEF.  I don't 
> know whether there is any way you know of that we can import a technology 
> LEF into Electric.   Another question is why layer names are constrained 
> that they must be prefixed with "POLY", "METAL-", "VIA" and "CONT".

Electric's LEF and DEF systems are not taken from "industry standard" 
code.  Such code carries a hefty price tag.  Instead, we wrote our own 
code, based on sample LEF and DEF files.  Needless to say, this means that 
the code is incomplete.

The LEF and DEF code is now translated into Java and will be part of the 
next release.  The Java versions have the same limitations.

The next release is scheduled to occur in the coming week (this is a 
release of the next Java version, 8.01...the C version will not be updated 
anymore).  I will make further announcements when it is ready.

   -Steven Rubin