About This Manual
This document provides information on new and changed features for version 5.8 of the Cadence® Library Exchange Format (LEF) and Design Exchange Format (DEF) integrated circuit description languages.
How This Document Is Organized
This What’s New document is organized into the following chapters:
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New Features
This chapter describes features that were added or changed since version 5.7 of LEF and DEF.
New features are those that introduce new functionality into LEF and DEF. Any enhancements made to existing statements to support a new feature are also described in this chapter.
Related Documents
The following documents provide detailed information about LEF and DEF, and the LEF and DEF application programming interfaces.
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