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NET(5)			       File Formats Manual			  NET(5)

NAME
     net - format of .net files read/written by Magic's netlist editor

DESCRIPTION
     Netlist files are read and written by Magic's netlist editor in a very sim-
     ple  ASCII  format.   The	first  line  contains the characters ``  Netlist
     File'' (the leading blank is important).  After that comes a blank line and
     then the descriptions of one or more nets.  Each net contains one	or  more
     lines, where each line contains a single terminal name.  The nets are sepa-
     rated  by	blank lines.  Any line that is blank or whose first character is
     blank is considered to be a separator line and the rest of its contents are
     ignored.

     Each terminal name is a path, much like a file path name in Unix.	It  con-
     sists  of	one  or more fields separated by slashes.  The last field in the
     path is the name of a label in a cell.  The other fields (if any), are cell
     instance identifiers that form a path from the edit cell down to the label.
     The first instance identifier must name a subcell of  the	edit  cell,  the
     second must be a subcell of the first, and so on.

     Instance  identifiers  are  unique within their parent cells, so a terminal
     path selects a unique cell to contain the label.  However, the  same  label
     may appear multiple times within its cell.  When this occurs, Magic assumes
     that  the	identical  labels identify electrically equivalent terminals; it
     will choose the closest of them when routing to  that  terminal.	Further,
     after  connecting to one of these terminals Magic may take advantage of the
     internal wiring connecting them together and route through a cell	to  com-
     plete the net's wiring.

     An example netlist file follows below.  It contains three distinct nets.

     ----------------------------------------
	     Netlist File

	    alu/bit_1/cout
	    alu/bit_2/cin

	    regcell[21,2]/output
	    latch[2]/input
	     This line starts with a blank, so it's a separator.
	    opcode_pla/out6
	    shifter/drivers/shift2
     ----------------------------------------

SEE ALSO
     magic(1)

4th Berkeley Distribution						  NET(5)

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