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Usage

Overview

Dreal is a hierarchical real layout viewer. All functionnalities can be accessed through different menus. Dreal works under Motif and X11r5. When entering Dreal, the main window appears and shows 4 different menus on the top bar.These menus can be entered by simply clicking on the mouse left button. Here is the description of these menus.

File

Open : load an existing cell.
Quit : quit dreal.

View

Zoom : perform zoom in, zoom out, center, fit, refresh on figure.
Layer : select types of layers displayed.
Map : show cursor position in the entire figure.
Arrows : show arrows for moving at the grid step.
Grid : Set the X,Y step of the grid if displayed.

Tools

Flatten : flatten the current figure.
Message : display the last error messages.

Setup

Save or load a user defined configuration of default displayed menus.

Environment

MBK_CATA_LIB

indicates the path to the read only libraries to be used.

MBK_WORK_LIB

indicates the path to the read directory for the session.

RDS_IN

indicates the file format to be used for the cell.

DREAL_TECHNO_NAME (optionnal)

indicates the path to the techno name file used by Dreal.

RDS_TECHNO_NAME (optionnal)

indicates the path to the RDS configuration file used by Dreal.