ASITIC Revision History
1/6/04 grackle release
- Inductance calculations faster and more accurate for 3D structures (Thanks to Oliver Landolt of Agilent for finding the 3D bug)
- Eddy code working again (found length scaling error).
- Thick metal bug fixed.
- Metal layers in different oxide layers bug fixed.
- Added symbol table and "set" command to control various
options
- 'set freq_scale=1e6' and 'set len_scale=1e-2' set scale to MHz and cm
- Port to Windows NT/2000 using Cygwin
- BLAS now provided by ATLAS
- Help now automatically redirects netscape to HTML files
- Cd and Dir command
- Style for Square (Begin center, end center, exit 90)
- K2 command for analyzing high-frequency mangetic coupling
- SubCoup command (substrate coupling between N structures)
- Sympoly structures now generated correctly
- X names appear close to structure (not the origin)
- Strentch GUI command (head or tail of structure)
- Sptowire command (convert a device to wires)
- Issue warning when applying "simple" commands to 3D
structs
- Finger cap structs
- First release 11/1/01
3/19/00
- This version has a "piv" command for current density plots.
- Print command will now generate an EPS plot.
10/22/99
- added support for eddy current calculations (eddy command)
- techlayer command for technology optimization
- techIO command for avoiding lengthy writes to disk
- text version of Load/Save. BLoad/BSave for backward compatiblity
5/2/99
- merged gendata with ASITIC
- using C++ instead of C
- fixed 3-port command, now it works!
- added support for "series" multi-level spirals
- internal code split for easier migration to Windows
- added "readline" library for easier command line editing
- added command line options
- added "hide" flag to spirals and "hide" command
- fixed CAP bug
3/14/98
- successfully debugged version 2.11.98
- Sonnet interface improved
- calc matrix and ind matrix sub-divisions decoupled
- added auto-cell command for automatic cell division
- added Symsq, Sympoly, and Balun commands
- added OptSweep command
- fixed bug in ind calc command
- optimized BLAS added to Pentium II Linux version
- optimized BLAS added to Sun Solaris version (via sunperf)
- ShuntR commands added
- added BB command (bounding box)
- added some very simple X keyboard/mouse commands
- added moveto command
- fixed bug with help
- 2-port routines now output better formatted text files
- default log file generation added
- improved grid command (for large zoom ins)
- new Save/Load commands (new format to support shunt struct)
- added split command
- added GuessSRF for self-resonance freq estimation
- via support improved
- fixed bugs with CalcTrans command
- "buddy" pointer added
- improved CIF output
2/11/98
- LAPACK migration...changed to C
- matrices are now column ordered
12/5/97
- added shunt data structures and capabilities
- compiled a Win95 version (no Graphics)
- improved Save/Load commands
- reimplemented SolveNodeEquations routine
- non-blocking input routine used for automatic X refresh
- conditional GMD routine added
- stipple fills rather than solid fill