$NetBSD: patch-ab,v 1.1 2004/03/21 23:40:56 dmcmahill Exp $ --- main.c.orig Sun Feb 23 02:34:32 1997 +++ main.c @@ -203,164 +203,164 @@ void help_text(void) fl_set_browser_fontsize(fdui_help->help_browse,FL_MEDIUM_SIZE); fl_set_browser_fontstyle(fdui_help->help_browse,4); fl_addto_browser(fdui_help->help_browse, -" -XCHIPLOGO - - Xchiplogo is an X interface for chiplogo. - -FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT TO WAIT ANY MORE - - 1- open the input file (which should be in the PBM ascii, - B&W format). You can use the input file browser. If you - do not have any input file you can 'Launch XV' to grab some- - thing from the screen and then save it into a file. Remember - that after you generate the input file using XV, you should - load it in. - - 2- Press the 'Generate Output'. If you do not have any spec- - ific name for the outpu file in mind, xchiplogo will use - 'logo.mag' or 'logo.cif' instead. - - 3- Your file is ready. You can have a look at it using your - favorite layout editor. - - 4- If you want to partially correct some of the design rule - errors, use the options in the 'Partial Error Correction' to - reduce the number of errors. Note that every time that you - change the parameters, the 'Generate Output' should be - pressed to generate the new layout. - -AND THE REST OF THE STORY - - Xchiplogo reads an ascii bitmap file, and converts it into a - magic or cif file. It is a handy program for creating logos - of text or graphics for putting on VLSI chips. At the - moment it accepts the B&W dithered format of XV as the - input. It has got quite a few options for resizing and get- - ting rid of many design rule errors that can be found in the - bitmap file. It has a smoothing, before and after an error - correction step. The error correction step is pretty simple - ,don't expect miracles, but it works quite fine and spe- - cially for text gives a reasonable output. - - I wrote this program when I saw my friends sitting for hours - to write their name; in a font that we call mikhi in per- - sian 'nail-font'. I have also seen many comercial layout - editors which have tried to implement a simple text-logo - generation, which all are very limited and inflexible. So I - started Xchiplogo. The input to chiplogo is ascii bitmap.It - really doesn't matter what program has generated the bitmap, - as long as there are two digits at the begining of the file - which tell the size of the bitmap in pixels, and then the - sequence of the ones and zeros. - - Although the output files may seem a bit big, if you use - magic after generating the file, magic reduces the size by a - factor of more than 10!!!. It is simply because each black - pixel in the input file becomes a box in the output magic - file. Magic merges the boxes so that they conform to its - corner stitch style. I have found magic to be the best - package for editing the design rule errors of the generated - layouts. With other layout editors you may lose your pati- - ence. - -OPTIONS, KEYS, and PARAMETERS - - CIF layer name - The cif layer that is to be used for the logo. The - default is CPG (poly). - - Micron/Lambda - This parameter tells the scaling factor for a CIF format. - For a 2 micron technology it is 50 (the default). For a - 0.8 micron it should be set to 20, and so on. - - Magic layer name - The magic layer name that is to be used for the logo. The - default is poly. - - Technology name - This option is used with magic option and is to specify - the technology. - - Minimum width - The minimum width of the layer. This value is used in all - the error correction and smoothing operations. The - default is 2. - - Minimum spacing - The minimum space of the layer. This value is used in all - the error correction and smoothing operations. The - default is 2. - - Partial error correction - This switch toggles the error detection and correction - stage. The default is off. When it is turned on the rel- - evant parameters will be shown in the window. - - Scale factor - The scaling factor, scales the layout by the this factor. - - Threshold before - This option turns on the smoothing operation before error - correction stage. The threshold_before is used as the - threshold value used after the smoothing. It can be - between 0 to 16. The smoothing function at the moment is - a simple triangular function, and acts over a neighbour- - hood of minimum_width. - - Threshold after - This option turns on the smoothing operation before the - error correction stage. The threshold_after is used as - the threshold value used after the smoothing. It can be - between 0 to 16. The smoothing function at the moment is - a simple triangular function, and acts over a neighbour- - hood of minimum_width - - Launch XV (Shortkey CTRL-V) - This button launches the XV for grabbing a piece of - graphics. - - Help (Shortkey CTRL-H) - To bring up this window. In this window if you press - the botton on the bottok saying 'OK, Get rid of this window' - the window will disappear. - - Generate output (CTRL-G) - After you have loaded an input file, press this button to - generate the layout. If no input file is given, or if the - specified input does not exist it will warn you of this - problem. But if the output file does not exist, depending - on the output format selected (magic or cif) it will save - the layout in a default file 'logo.mag' or 'logo.cif'. - - Input File (CTRL-I) - You should specify the input file name. You can also - browse by pressing the browse button next to this input - field. - - Output File (CTRL-O) - You should specify the output file name. You can also - browse by pressing the browse button next to this input - field. - - Quite (CTRL-Q) - You guess what this one does!! - - About (CTRL-A) - Just the author info. - -NOTE - The format of the input file SHOULD be 'PBM (ascii)-B&W - Dithered'. With other formats xchiplogo will hang. - -AUTHOR - Alireza Moini, - Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, - The University of Adelaide - - moini@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au - April 1996 +" \n\ +XCHIPLOGO \n\ +\n\ + Xchiplogo is an X interface for chiplogo. \n\ +\n\ +FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT TO WAIT ANY MORE\n\ +\n\ + 1- open the input file (which should be in the PBM ascii, \n\ + B&W format). You can use the input file browser. If you\n\ + do not have any input file you can 'Launch XV' to grab some-\n\ + thing from the screen and then save it into a file. Remember\n\ + that after you generate the input file using XV, you should\n\ + load it in.\n\ + \n\ + 2- Press the 'Generate Output'. If you do not have any spec-\n\ + ific name for the outpu file in mind, xchiplogo will use \n\ + 'logo.mag' or 'logo.cif' instead.\n\ + \n\ + 3- Your file is ready. You can have a look at it using your\n\ + favorite layout editor.\n\ + \n\ + 4- If you want to partially correct some of the design rule\n\ + errors, use the options in the 'Partial Error Correction' to\n\ + reduce the number of errors. Note that every time that you \n\ + change the parameters, the 'Generate Output' should be \n\ + pressed to generate the new layout.\n\ +\n\ +AND THE REST OF THE STORY\n\ +\n\ + Xchiplogo reads an ascii bitmap file, and converts it into a \n\ + magic or cif file. It is a handy program for creating logos \n\ + of text or graphics for putting on VLSI chips. At the\n\ + moment it accepts the B&W dithered format of XV as the \n\ + input. It has got quite a few options for resizing and get-\n\ + ting rid of many design rule errors that can be found in the\n\ + bitmap file. It has a smoothing, before and after an error\n\ + correction step. The error correction step is pretty simple\n\ + ,don't expect miracles, but it works quite fine and spe- \n\ + cially for text gives a reasonable output. \n\ +\n\ + I wrote this program when I saw my friends sitting for hours\n\ + to write their name; in a font that we call mikhi in per-\n\ + sian 'nail-font'. I have also seen many comercial layout\n\ + editors which have tried to implement a simple text-logo\n\ + generation, which all are very limited and inflexible. So I\n\ + started Xchiplogo. The input to chiplogo is ascii bitmap.It\n\ + really doesn't matter what program has generated the bitmap,\n\ + as long as there are two digits at the begining of the file\n\ + which tell the size of the bitmap in pixels, and then the\n\ + sequence of the ones and zeros.\n\ + \n\ + Although the output files may seem a bit big, if you use\n\ + magic after generating the file, magic reduces the size by a\n\ + factor of more than 10!!!. It is simply because each black\n\ + pixel in the input file becomes a box in the output magic\n\ + file. Magic merges the boxes so that they conform to its\n\ + corner stitch style. I have found magic to be the best\n\ + package for editing the design rule errors of the generated\n\ + layouts. With other layout editors you may lose your pati-\n\ + ence.\n\ + \n\ +OPTIONS, KEYS, and PARAMETERS\n\ +\n\ + CIF layer name\n\ + The cif layer that is to be used for the logo. The\n\ + default is CPG (poly).\n\ +\n\ + Micron/Lambda\n\ + This parameter tells the scaling factor for a CIF format.\n\ + For a 2 micron technology it is 50 (the default). For a \n\ + 0.8 micron it should be set to 20, and so on.\n\ + \n\ + Magic layer name\n\ + The magic layer name that is to be used for the logo. The\n\ + default is poly.\n\ + \n\ + Technology name\n\ + This option is used with magic option and is to specify\n\ + the technology.\n\ + \n\ + Minimum width\n\ + The minimum width of the layer. This value is used in all\n\ + the error correction and smoothing operations. The\n\ + default is 2.\n\ + \n\ + Minimum spacing\n\ + The minimum space of the layer. This value is used in all\n\ + the error correction and smoothing operations. The\n\ + default is 2.\n\ + \n\ + Partial error correction\n\ + This switch toggles the error detection and correction\n\ + stage. The default is off. When it is turned on the rel-\n\ + evant parameters will be shown in the window.\n\ + \n\ + Scale factor\n\ + The scaling factor, scales the layout by the this factor.\n\ + \n\ + Threshold before\n\ + This option turns on the smoothing operation before error\n\ + correction stage. The threshold_before is used as the\n\ + threshold value used after the smoothing. It can be\n\ + between 0 to 16. The smoothing function at the moment is\n\ + a simple triangular function, and acts over a neighbour-\n\ + hood of minimum_width.\n\ + \n\ + Threshold after\n\ + This option turns on the smoothing operation before the\n\ + error correction stage. The threshold_after is used as\n\ + the threshold value used after the smoothing. It can be\n\ + between 0 to 16. The smoothing function at the moment is\n\ + a simple triangular function, and acts over a neighbour-\n\ + hood of minimum_width\n\ +\n\ + Launch XV (Shortkey CTRL-V)\n\ + This button launches the XV for grabbing a piece of \n\ + graphics.\n\ +\n\ + Help (Shortkey CTRL-H)\n\ + To bring up this window. In this window if you press \n\ + the botton on the bottok saying 'OK, Get rid of this window' \n\ + the window will disappear.\n\ + \n\ + Generate output (CTRL-G)\n\ + After you have loaded an input file, press this button to \n\ + generate the layout. If no input file is given, or if the\n\ + specified input does not exist it will warn you of this\n\ + problem. But if the output file does not exist, depending\n\ + on the output format selected (magic or cif) it will save\n\ + the layout in a default file 'logo.mag' or 'logo.cif'.\n\ + \n\ + Input File (CTRL-I)\n\ + You should specify the input file name. You can also \n\ + browse by pressing the browse button next to this input \n\ + field.\n\ + \n\ + Output File (CTRL-O)\n\ + You should specify the output file name. You can also \n\ + browse by pressing the browse button next to this input \n\ + field.\n\ +\n\ + Quite (CTRL-Q)\n\ + You guess what this one does!!\n\ +\n\ + About (CTRL-A)\n\ + Just the author info.\n\ + \n\ +NOTE\n\ + The format of the input file SHOULD be 'PBM (ascii)-B&W \n\ + Dithered'. With other formats xchiplogo will hang.\n\ +\n\ +AUTHOR\n\ + Alireza Moini, \n\ + Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,\n\ + The University of Adelaide\n\ +\n\ + moini@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au\n\ + April 1996\n\ "); fl_set_browser_topline(fdui_help->help_browse,1);