Hi, does anyone know about this error?
# lvs
j
Hi, does anyone know about this error?
m
From what I can tell, it appears that after device reduction (combining parallel devices: schematic 108->12, layout 186->12), the layout width (circuit2) is twice that of the schematic width (circuit1). Make sure you do not have duplicate placements (one layout device cell exactly overlapping another cell.).
j
You were right, there were duplicate cells underneath, do you know why this happens?
m
@Tim Edwards I believe you fixed the gds conversion script routine to ignore duplicate placements, but is there a version of magic that allows duplicate placements?
t
@Mitch Bailey: Magic will automatically remove duplicate cells on GDS read-in and when using the getcell command in magic. There are probably ways to get it to happen anyway that I don't know about. If you had a left-right symmetric cell and made a copy, flipped it, and then placed it on itself, that would be legal and undetected by magic, but there are likely ways get a cell placed exactly on top of itself somehow.