--chipnsil14.tioga
--Christian Jacobi April 24, 1984 3:57:50 pm PST
ChipNSil, a new chipndale technology
Sil <-> ChipNSil
ChipNSil does not want to compete in general with Sil; ChipNSil wants:
- demonstrate chipndale's wide range of technology independence
- be a base for experimenting in integrating schematic capturing to chipndale
- be a documentation facilty for chipndale design's
ChipNSil has a chipndale (chipmonk) like userinterinterface, not a Sil like.
ChipNSil has no colors; it is thought to run together with other chipndale technologies and leaves the definition of a color map to the other technology.
Commands
@chipnsil.cm starts the program
cdnewsil to create a new design
<TAB-CTRL-0> create or modify a macro
DF file
/indigo/chipndale/top/chipnsil14.df
Restrictions
Characters can not yet be plotted.
Fonts
ChipNSil supports 8 fonts; which are initialized with the user profile. The user profile designates the font used on creation of the text; once a text is created, its font can NOT be changed with the user profile.
Example user profile:
Chipndale.chipnsil.TIPTable: "chipnsil.tip" -- this is default
-- Fonts do not have defaults
Chipndale.chipnsil.Font0: "TimesRoman14.strike"
Chipndale.chipnsil.AlternateFont0: "/indigo/AltoFonts/TimesRoman14.strike"
Chipndale.chipnsil.ScaleFont0: 32
Chipndale.chipnsil.Font1: "Gates32.strike"
Chipndale.chipnsil.AlternateFont1: "/indigo/AltoFonts/Gates32.strike"
Chipndale.chipnsil.ScaleFont1: 64
Macros
There is a new chipndale object type, calld macro. Macro's are a subclass of cells, but with user definable bounding box. Macros are created, or their bounding box changed, with the <TAB-CTRL-0> command.
Pushing and popping with "replace" option from macros does not modify the bounding box; Popping and creating a new cell creates a cell, not a macro.
Popping out of a macro can move its application; Sorry, but pushing into macros is thought to be a non standard feature, used only to create macro libraries.