Release date: 2018-04-15

Features:

  • – Added bb=True option to export_gds() to facilitate building block creation, sharing and loading.
  • – Extended mirroring options in cell placement:
    flip=True: mirror by “rotation” in the connecting pin axis
    flop=True: mirror by “reversing the direction” of the connecting pin.
  • – Provided more “predictable” ‘org’ behavior by filtering ‘org’ from raise-pins().
  • – In load_gds the native=True setting can not change cell placement anymore: It now sets ‘org’ as default in/out pins (as it does for native=False), rather than adding ‘a0’ and ‘b0’ as default in/out.
  • – A number of small fixes.

Release date: 2018-03-06

Features:

  • – Implemented loading of gds files into fully native Nazca cell(s).
  • – Added parametric curves.
  • – Implemented direct pointer solving (at time of placement, rather than cell closure). It gives immediate access to pin coordinates (x, y, a).
  • – Implemented automated bounding box for cells (including array’s and native loaded gds).
  • – Added bounding box info to polygons and polylines.
  • – Export full gds to matplotlib/png (including array’s and native loaded gds).
  • – Export full gds to svg (including array’s and native loaded gds).
  • – Added module for tracing path-lengths.
  • – Pin, Polygon, Polyline and Annotation now all have a (mandatory) capital first letter to indicate they are classes.
  • – Interconnects that can not be drawn correctly are shown in a dedicated error layer.
  • – Improved stub handling, customize scaling, shapes or use cells as a stub.
  • – Improved ubend to connect guides < 2*radius apart.
  • – Improved doc-strings.
  • – Improved messages.
  • – Improved checking for cell name conflicts.
  • – Added cell name filter to make cellnames comply with specific foundry restrictions.
  • – Improved handling of missing xsections and layers.

Release date: 2017-11-22

The first public release.