pdaBBtypeItem

Structure

The attributes and elements are shown below, in a sorted per type fashion.
In case a list is printed after an element, it indicates that you can have many, otherwise it should be a single element. With a optional it tells the element is not required.

<bbtype  group="..."  name="..."  priority="..."  symbolViewTemplate="..." ... > ...
  <MRL> ... </MRL>    optional
  <ModelName> ... </ModelName>   list
  <TRL> ... </TRL>    optional
  <doc> ... </doc>   list
  <extends> ... </extends>   list
  <groupRef> ... </groupRef>   list
  <modelpriority> ... </modelpriority>   list
  <pycall> ... </pycall>   list
  <tex> ... </tex>   list
  <ticket> ... </ticket>   list
</bbtype>

XSD

The schema file can be downloaded or viewed at xPDK_CompactModel_List.

Details

MRL

Type pdaMRL documentation: Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) as defined by the EU.

ModelName

Define a list of models that this type supports.
The model list is related to the simulation information. Type pdaCompactModelItem documentation: Define a compact model per BB type.

TRL

Type pdaTRL documentation: Technology Readiness Level (TRL) as defined by the EU.

doc

Type pdaDocumentation documentation:
This field allows some (short, few lines) documentation to be written. It can be a long string, but the idea is not to replace a design manual.
This fields is like tex which allows documentation in LaTex format; doc is restricted to plain text.

extends

Define a list of basic bbtypes.
Using the extends allows to incorporate the models of the base class, like a multiple inheritance. Type pdaIdentifierExtended documentation:
Those names are mostly XML scope and thus for readability support more general naming then the pdaIdentifier.

group

This field is used for the documentation generation to group the BB-types into a list of categories. It is based on InPulse deliverable D4.4 and adds updates from the Stichting PDAFlow Foundation PDK workgroup. Type pdaIdentifier documentation:
Identifiers are used in the Python library for the getName() and


        setName()

function and can thus be used to identify the different elements in list s.
In text the specification is a letter, followed by letters, numbers, underscore. The XSD schema validation is a regular expression: [A-Za-z]([A-Za-z0-9_])*

groupRef

Type pdaIdentifier documentation:
Identifiers are used in the Python library for the getName() and


        setName()

modelpriority

Allow to annotate the respective models with a priority for measurements by the foundary. Type pdaModelPriority documentation:

name

Type pdaIdentifierExtended documentation:
Those names are mostly XML scope and thus for readability support more general naming then the pdaIdentifier.

priority

This field indicates its relative priority for a foundry to consider its models with respect to other BBs. Type pdaBBpriority documentation:

1: high (commonly used)
2: med/low (less commonly used)

pycall

Type pycall documentation: This is intended for Luceda's data processing on the model data, so is used in the xPDK_CompactModel_List.

symbolViewTemplate

Type symbolViewTemplate documentation: Define the symbol view to use as basis.
When using this field, the OptoCompiler PDK will use this shape as template and generate the symbol based on the pre-defined template. This is an alternative of using the symbolView use.

tex

Type pdaTexDocumentation documentation: doc , but tex can be a long text in LaTex format to document the layer in more detail if needed.

You can document anything relevant for the topic you want to define.

Multiple paragraphs is fine. Format is Latex, so more complex content is possible.

ticket

Type pdaTicket documentation: