ABE Layers

ABE operates on ABE layers that are temporary layers in memory, not layers in the cellview. ABE layers are mosaic-based structures that perform efficient operations by decomposing all objects into tiles, either rectangles or octagons.

Examples

To highlight a set, use this boolean operation:

; Initialize ABE

abeInit( geGetEditCellView() )

; Load input layers from cellview

M1 = abeLayerFromCellView( "Metal1" )
M2 = abeLayerFromCellView( "Metal2" ?purpose "drawing" ?depth 3)

; Create ABE output layers

m1Straddlem2 = abeNewLayer()

; ABE operation

abeLayerStraddle( M1 M2 m1Straddlem2 )

; Create a highlight set with the ABE output layer

hSet = geCreateWindowHilightSet( hiGetCurrentWindow() list( "Metal7" "drawing" ))
hSet->enable = t
abeLayerToHilightSet( m1Straddlem2 hSet )

; End the ABE session and release the memory

abeDone()

For cellview use this boolean operation:

; Initialize ABE

abeInit( geGetEditCellView() )

; Load input layers from cellview

M1 = abeLayerFromCellView( "Metal1" )
M2 = abeLayerFromCellView( "Metal2" ?purpose "drawing" )

; Create ABE output layers

m1Xorm2 = abeNewLayer()

; ABE operation

abeLayerXor( M1 M2 m1Xorm2 )

; Output the ABE Xor result to the Poly:drawing layer-purpose pair

abeLayerToCellView( m1Xorm2 "Poly" )

; End the ABE session and release the memory

abeDone()

Perform ABE Multithreading Using Queue

; Initialize with 8 threads

abeInit( geGetEditCellView() ?threads 8 )

; Load input layers from cellview

Poly = abeLayerFromCellView( "Poly" )
M1 = abeLayerFromCellView( "Metal1" )
M2 = abeLayerFromCellView( "Metal2" )
M3 = abeLayerFromCellView( "Metal3" )
M4 = abeLayerFromCellView( "Metal4" )

; Create ABE output layers

outLayer1 = abeNewLayer()
outLayer2 = abeNewLayer()
outLayer3 = abeNewLayer()
outLayer4 = abeNewLayer()
outLayer5 = abeNewLayer()
outLayer6 = abeNewLayer()

; ABE operations

abeLayerOr( Poly outLayer1 ?queue t )
abeLayerAnd( M1 M2 outLayer2 ?queue t )
abeLayerStraddle( M1 M2 outLayer3 ?queue t )
abeLayerSize( M2 outLayer4 0.25 ?queue t )
abeLayerGrow( M3 outLayer5 ?south 0.40 ?queue t )
abeLayerShrink( M4 outLayer6 ?east 0.20 ?west 0.22 ?queue t )

; Run the queue

abeRunQueue()

; Create a highlight set with an ABE output layer

hSet = geCreateWindowHilightSet( hiGetCurrentWindow() list( "Metal7" "drawing" ))
hSet->enable = t
abeLayerToHilightSet( outLayer2 hSet )

; End the ABE session and release the memory

abeDone()

Related Topics

Support for Multithreading in ABE Functions

Return to top