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Silicon Layout Wizard
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Resistor extrapolation behaviour #33

Closed psychogenic closed 1 year ago

psychogenic commented 1 year ago

This may be because I'm not using it as I'm supposed to, but it was unexpected behaviour, at least to me. This may be an edge case is "won't fix" but may warrant either stricter indications in the tutorial or warnings in the UI, and it may impact other things, so am documenting here.

Creating a voltage divider using a single fill of polyres sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. It seems like the graph is being scanned top to bottom and the rule appears to be:

resistorextrapolation

mattvenn commented 1 year ago

nice test. I have added some info about it in the lessons

mattvenn commented 1 year ago

this is a won't fix as it's dependent on how magic does the extraction