Hierarchy
GDSII data is hierarchical which allows it to describe millions or billions of polygons with a much smaller number of database records.
The basic container is called a structure (often referred to as a cell). The structure can contain geometric elements such as boundaries and paths and references to other structures (SREFs and AREFs.) Let’s look at a very simple example to understand what is going on.
基本容器称为结构(通常称为单元)。该结构可以包含几何元素,如边界和路径,以及对其他结构(SREFs和AREFs)的引用。让我们看一个非常简单的示例来了解发生了什么。
In the above pseudo GDSII code we have two structures defined: TOP and CELL_A. TOP contains a reference to CELL_A, essentially placing it somwhere with some transformations. CELL_A is very simple one and has no references to other cells (though it could.)
在上面的伪GDSII代码中,我们定义了两种结构:TO