Should cicpy support xschem -> magic block layout

[wulffern]

1. Is that how I want to support block layout maybe?
2. Maybe I could use the meta to feed info to cicpy? or should I have a separate file?

Maybe I just need xschem path?

I could

1. Read a single xschem hierarchy
2. Assume that all cells have layout
3. Read the mag files to figure out bounding box (how do I figure out ports)?
4. Create layout with blocks (some form of placement strategy)
5. Do I want to add route support? (channels?

What do I do if the magic exists?

1. Probably nothing for MVP
2. maybe I could support "update connectivity?". How would I know what paths are cicpy generated? Does magic file format support comments?

[saicharan0112]

Create layout with blocks (some form of placement strategy)

@wulffern if it was openroad (digital), you could have used python scripts to easily do placement and routing. I am not sure if you are aware of gdsfactory. It can help in drawing layouts using python. I haven't got a chance to try that but I have seen people using that do draw layouts and extract gds files.

[wulffern]

@saicharan0112 thanks for the comment. I think openroad might work well for routing between blocks, when the number of analog signals are low.

Thanks for the tip on gdsfactory, I was not aware of it.