ElectricalVia

class ipkiss3.pcell.via.cell.ElectricalVia

Class for common electrical vias. Its purpose is to electrically connect two layers (layer_top and layer_bottom) that are defined in the Layoutview. Two ports/terms named top and bottom refer to the connection points on those respective layers. The connection is done with a connection layer(layer_via)

Parameters:

name: String that contains only ISO/IEC 8859-1 (extended ASCII py3) or pure ASCII (py2) characters

The unique name of the pcell

Views

class Layout

A standard electrical via is made of a boundary on three layers (layer_top, layer_bottom and layer_via). For each layer (top, bottom and via) 2 properties are defined:

• top_shape

• top_layer

analogous properties are defined for the other layers.

Parameters:

via_shape: Shape

via shape of the via.

via_layer: Layer

Drawing layer for the via layer of the via.

bottom_shape: Shape

Shape used for the bottom of the via. Also used as shape in the bottom port.

bottom_layer: Layer

Drawing layer for the bottom of the via.

top_shape: Shape

Shape used for the top of the via. Also used as shape in the top port.

top_layer: Layer

Drawing layer for the top of the via.

view_name: String that contains only alphanumeric characters from the ASCII set or contains _$. ASCII set is extended on PY3.

The name of the view

Other Parameters:

layers: locked

shapes: locked

Examples

import si_fab.all as pdk  # noqa: F401
from ipkiss3 import all as i3
from ipkiss3.pcell.via.cell import ElectricalVia

cell = ElectricalVia()
# defining the shapes that are going to be used
# For the top bottom layer and via layer you can either define a layer or
# a combination of a process and a purpose.

layout = cell.Layout(
    top_shape=i3.ShapeRegularPolygon(n_o_sides=3),
    bottom_shape=i3.ShapeRegularPolygon(n_o_sides=9),
    via_shape=i3.ShapeRegularPolygon(n_o_sides=5),
    top_layer=i3.TECH.PPLAYER.M1.LINE,
    bottom_layer=i3.TECH.PPLAYER.M2.LINE,
    via_layer=i3.TECH.PPLAYER.V12.PILLAR,
)

layout.visualize()