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highlay - high-light the layout of conductors and/or devices |
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highlay [-npeoFvmidL -l mask -w width -c outcell] [-N n1,n2... -P p1,p2... -E e1,e2...] cell [namefile] |
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-n |
Select nets. |
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-p |
Select ports. |
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-e |
Select devices (fets and bipolar transistors). |
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-L |
High-light with the conductor masks (default: all original masks that are present at that position). |
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-l mask |
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Use specified mask for high-lighting (default: all original masks that are present at that position). |
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-w width |
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The width of an area with which a selected conductor area should be extended (can only be used in combination with the option -l, default is 0). |
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-c outcell |
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Name of output cell (default: HIGH_OUT). |
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-o |
Do not include the original cell as a sub-cell. |
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-F |
Include the original cell at the same level. |
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-v |
Verbose mode. Print the nets, ports and devices that are selected. |
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The following options are only appropriate when using match results (no namefile is specified). |
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-m |
Select matching items. |
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-i |
Select inconclusive items. |
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-d |
Select deficient items. |
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-N n1,n2... |
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Select the nets that are part of groups n1,n2.... |
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-P p1,p2... |
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Select the ports that are part of groups p1,p2.... |
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-E e1,e2... |
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Select the devices that are part of groups e1,e2.... |
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Highlay(1ICD) is a program for high-lighting one or more (extracted) conductors and/or devices in a layout-editor/viewer. In order to use highlay for a particular cell, first run the layout-to-circuit extractor space(1ICD) for this cell using the option x. The conductors (nets/ports) and devices that are high-lighted can be specified in two different ways: (1) they are specified in a namefile, or (2) they are selected from the output of the circuit comparison program match(1ICD). When a namefile is specified, the names of the nets, ports and/or devices that are high-lighted are read from this file. The names must be separated by tabs, spaces and/or newline characters. For the devices, the database names must be used. These are the names that are obtained when xsls(1ICD) or xspice(ICD) is used with the option -d, but without the prefix character. Nets, ports and/or devices are selected for high-lighting according to the use of the options -n, -p and/or -e. When no namefile is specified, highlay will read output of the program match for the specified cell. In that case, it will select nets, ports and/or devices according to the use of the options -m, -i, -d, -n, -N, -p, -P, -e and/or -E. A net, port or device is high-lighted if and only if it is selected by one of the options -m, -i or -d and by one of the options -n, -N, -p, -P, -e or -E. In order to obtain correct input for highlay from match, the latter program should be run using the option -edif. Highlay will generate a new cell that contains (default) the high-lighted parts of the specified cell, plus a copy of the specified cell as a sub-cell. The name of the new cell that is generated is (default) HIGH_OUT. This name can be changed by using the option -c. The nets, ports and/or devices that are selected for high-lighting are (default) displayed in their original mask colors. An alternative mask for high-lighting can be specified by using the option -l. |
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Note that names that are printed in spice descriptions as in_1_ in_2_, might be known in the layout database - and must therefore be referred to in the namefile of highlay - as in[1] in[2]. |
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An example of a namefile "latch.hil" for highlay is as follows: vdd a1 a2 _T2 This namefile may be used to obtain a cell HIGH_OUT in which the nets vdd, a1 and a2 and the device _T1 of cell latch are high-lighted, as follows. $ highlay -n -e latch latch.hil |
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match(1ICD), space(1ICD). |