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Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043 www.synopsys.com Python API Reference Manual L-2016.06 2 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 6 Summary Description ..................................................................................................... 7 Basic Structure .............................................................................................................. 11 Units .............................................................................................................................. 13 Python Interpreter ......................................................................................................... 13 Python Documentation Conventions ............................................................................ 13 BASIC GEOMETRIC CLASSES .................................................................................... 14 Point .............................................................................................................................. 14 Range ............................................................................................................................ 19 Segment......................................................................................................................... 25 Box ................................................................................................................................ 29 Direction ....................................................................................................................... 39 Location ........................................................................................................................ 43 Orientation .................................................................................................................... 44 Transform ...................................................................................................................... 45 Font ............................................................................................................................... 48 PathStyle ....................................................................................................................... 49 GapStyle ........................................................................................................................ 49 PHYSICAL COMPONENT CLASSES ........................................................................... 51 Shape Classes ................................................................................................................ 66 Shape ......................................................................................................................... 66 Arc............................................................................................................................. 67 Donut......................................................................................................................... 69 Dot............................................................................................................................. 70 Ellipse ....................................................................................................................... 72 Line ........................................................................................................................... 74 Path ........................................................................................................................... 76 PathSeg ..................................................................................................................... 79 Polygon ..................................................................................................................... 81 Rect ........................................................................................................................... 83 Text ........................................................................................................................... 87 TextDisplay ............................................................................................................... 90 AttrDisplay ................................................................................................................ 91 PHYSICAL COMPONENT RELATED CLASSES ........................................................ 95 Instance Classes ............................................................................................................ 95 Instance ..................................................................................................................... 95 InstanceArray .......................................................................................................... 101 Contact .................................................................................................................... 104 AbutContact ............................................................................................................ 108 ArrayInstContact ..................................................................................................... 110 Grouping Classes ........................................................................................................ 112 Grouping ................................................................................................................. 112 CompoundComponent ............................................................................................ 117 Derived CompoundComponent Classes ..................................................................... 122 Python API Reference Manual L-2016.06 3 Bar ........................................................................................................................... 122 ContactRing ............................................................................................................ 125 DeviceContact ......................................................................................................... 129 MultiPath................................................................................................................. 133 RoutePath ................................................................................................................ 139 Boundary Classes ........................................................................................................ 146 Boundary ................................................................................................................. 146 PRBoundary ............................................................................................................ 147 Via Classes .................................................................................................................. 149 Via ........................................................................................................................... 149 StdVia ..................................................................................................................... 151 CustomVia .............................................................................................................. 153 PHYSICAL COMPONENT REFERENCE CLASSES ................................................. 155 PhysicalCompRef ....................................................................................................... 156 GroupingRef ............................................................................................................... 162 InstanceRef ................................................................................................................. 162 InstanceArrayRef .......................................................................................................