Reply To: Create trial cells when using minimizer algorithm?

[LaserJon]

To add some more information:

I set up a problem using trial cells with the purpose of finding path length & exact output port location. The approach does work. But I still haven’t figured out how to remove a cell from the netlist.

I get very many warnings like this:
WARNING: netlist.py: ND-342: Duplicate cell name in nd.Cell(name=’trial bot’) renamed to ‘trial bot_1506’.

I realized that cell.close() is automatically called when I use the “with nd.Cell(…) as cell:” formation, so that is not the method I’m looking for.

Standard python “del cell” does not seem to work.

The unused trial cells don’t show up in my GDS hierarchy, so they aren’t increasing my GDS file size. The only issue remains that if I adopt this practice of making trial cells and build bigger layouts with it, I’ll run out of memory or have slower compiles.

Thanks, Jon