I'm in the semiconductor industry. My job is to create data and to run regression tests on that data for the validation of physical layout rules.
Skip to bottom for questions, if you don't want to read my ramblings. The current problem is tha the rules are not in a computer readable form. Many paople have a hand in writing different sections of the rules, so you can imagine that the wording is widely varied. There is no standard to wording or even the dialog used. One of the things I have been ask to do is to try and get a handle on how the rules may be written that that they are computer readable. I've been working with perl hash's and excel spread sheets. The main problem I was having was that I was trying to decreace the relationship words and increase the number of variables. This was quickly resulting in a spread sheet that was growing (number of columns) very rapidly. I assume excel has a limit to the number of columns. The idea that I have come up with is to create a language with limited descriptive words. Here is an example of a rule that might be written in a human readable form but also parsable by puter. MET1 spacing to MET1 is 45 if MET1 width is <= 245 and >= 100 By looking at this MET1 is a layer Spacing width <= >= are relationships If is a constraint #'s are #'s I want to have them write correct by construction. Is it possible, in vim/gvim to open a special version of vim so that the user can begin to type, spac , and it would complete the word? Would it also be possible to not allow a word to be type'd if that word was not in a list. Vim would have to open in edit mode and remain there for most users, until save/exit. Most of the users of this would be hard core pc users who think the only editor is "word". But there are a few unix users. My questions. 1. Can vim be configured to automatically start in edit mode? 2. Can vim monitor each word that is being typed? 3. Can vim do word completion? 4. Can vim offer all possible spellings for partial word completion? If the answer to most of qeustion above is yes 5. Can I do the programming? I do perl, c, c++, csh and sh programming.
