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Re: Help wanted - Cadence Edge and EDIF

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From: David F. Skoll
Date: Thu, 07 May 1992 14:21
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[I was having problems with 'edifin']:

In <1992May7.013138.1152@ee.ubc.ca> carlyw@ee.ubc.ca (Carly Wong) writes:

>I suspect those are bugs with edifin/out.

Yup!  The people who responded to me reported that edifin was "terminally
broken."

>I got around that by writing a SKILL program to fix the read in layouts,
>such as search for "wire" layers, and replace with "dmet".
>I could send you the program if you are interested.

Thanks, but I did much the same hack.  I wrote the pins on regular drawing
layers, but attached my own properties to signal that they are really pins.
A little SKILL program fixes everything up.

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David F. Skoll
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