The fix will be available in v8.10 Gilda
On Dec 15, 2009, at 6:18 PM, pallav <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using the latest modified Electric v8.09 (Oct 17 build) from > http://cmosedu.com/cmos1/electric/electric_modified.htm > > I have a design. We submitted into MOSIS but there were some warning > like this: > > Project Warnings: > POLY layer drawn density is 1.1%; minimum required by AMI_C5F > is 12.0%. > METAL1 layer drawn density is 4.6%; minimum required by > AMI_C5F is 30.0% > > While MOSIS can fix this, I wanted to play around in Electric and see > what it can do. I go to Tools -> Generation -> Fill (mocmos). Since > I'm not sure how this works, I just checked all metal1, metal2, > metal3. In the tiling pane, I selected 8x8. After clicking OK, I get a > NullPointer exception. Here is the log: > > =================================1================================= > Reading referenced library /Users/pgupta/electric/regfile/iopads- > ami05.jelib > Library /Users/pgupta/electric/regfile/register-file.jelib read, took > 1.26 seconds > Checking library 'iopads-ami05' for repair... library checked > Checking library 'register-file' for repair... library checked > No errors found > =================================2================================= > metal-2 coverage: 0.84375 > metal-3 coverage: 0.9142857142857143 > metal-4 coverage: 0.84375 > metal-5 coverage: 0.9142857142857143 > metal-6 coverage: 0.84375 > java.lang.NullPointerException > at com.sun.electric.tool.generator.layout.LayoutLib.newArcInst > (LayoutLib.java:517) > at com.sun.electric.tool.generator.layout.fill.G.noExtendArc > (G.java: > 40) > at com.sun.electric.tool.generator.layout.fill.CapCellMosis.mos > (CapCell.java:166) > at com.sun.electric.tool.generator.layout.fill.CapCellMosis.<init> > (CapCell.java:234) > at com.sun.electric.tool.generator.layout.fill.CapCellMosis.<init> > (CapCell.java:219) > at > com.sun.electric.tool.generator.layout.fill.FillGeneratorTool.initFillParameters > (FillGeneratorTool.java:737) > at > com.sun.electric.tool.generator.layout.fill.FillGeneratorTool.standardMakeFillCell > (FillGeneratorTool.java:834) > at > com.sun.electric.tool.generator.layout.fill.FillGenJob.doTemplateFill > (FillGenJob.java:115) > at com.sun.electric.tool.generator.layout.fill.FillGenJob.doIt > (FillGenJob.java:110) > at com.sun.electric.tool.EThread.run(EThread.java:94) > =================================3================================= > Exception while loading plugin class > com.sun.electric.plugins.sctiming.STAOptionsDialog: > com.sun.electric.plugins.sctiming.STAOptionsDialog > > > The process we are targeting has only 3 metal layers. However, > Electric seems to be running upto 6? Hopefully this can be fixed. Or > if I'm doing something wrong, what is it? > > > While we are on the topic of fill, I can understand meeting metal > density rules. How does one go about meeting poly density rules? I'm > looking at this: > http://www.mosis.com/Technical/Designrules/guidelines.html#fill > > Virtually all of the designs we have submitted have these two warnings > only. I'd like to fix that. Thanks > > Kind regards. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Electric VLSI Editor" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/electricvlsi?hl=en > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Electric VLSI Editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/electricvlsi?hl=en.
