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Wafer Representation

For wafer representation, the Profile Interchange Format PIF [Duv88] [FFStex2html_wrap870091]gif and the Technology Interchange Format (TIF) [Tec95] are the most commonly used within VISTA/SFCgif.

The PIF format is considered the native data format of the framework; built in pre-processors and post-processors for geometry editing and viewing of grids and distributed quantities are provided [Rie96] [Ins96c], and VLISP function calls are available to write and read data in PIF format.



Christoph Pichler
Thu Mar 13 14:30:47 MET 1997