Hi all, 1. How can I move a box and its content in Magic? 2. How can I cut and paste what’s inside a box somewhere else in Magic? 3. How can I copy and paste what’s inside a box somewhere else in Magic? 4. Finally, is it possible to have sub 10nm grid size? Because when I set the grid size 65nm for example, it’ll be rounded up to 70nm by the tool automatically.

1.

move e 10

  will move the box right (east). If something is selected it will also move along 2.

select area

 will select all layers inside the box and then move command will move the contents 3. use 

select area

 and then move the mouse pointer to where you copy the contents, once at the position pressing 

c

 will copy the contents to that place 4. default grid size when you start magic with sky130 tech file is 5nm. you can also change this with 

grid 0.005um 0.005um

 . If you have placed a PCELL or some hierarchical cell then 

i

  key can be used to select them.

@User Thanks a lot Rana. I’ll give it a try.

@User: Don't misrepresent magic. Magic's internal grid is arbitrarily rescalable. There are specific limits that can be set to prevent it from scaling to less than the manufacturing limit of the process. But magic starts up by default using lambda units, which for the skywater process are set to 0.1um for convenience of converting units in the techfile. You should not use "-T <techfile>" to start magic; you should use "-rcfile <startup_script>" because the startup script subdivides the internal grid to match the manufacturing grid, adds menu items for parameterized cells, and other important things that will be missed if you just use "-T".

@User Ok, got it. Thanks.

@User thanks for the info. I always snap to grid after opening magic so I guess I missed the difference.