mbschk Utility

mbschk is a lightweight Mebes pattern file reader that can output boundary equivalents to a GDSII file or stdout.
All messaging goes to stderr. It does not have the unionizing feature that mbs2tiff has.

It was not based on the code found in mbs2tiff in order to provide a sterile environment in which to provide an independent method of testing mbs2tiff.

Usage of mbschk

Usage of mbschk is documented below:

../bin/mbschk -h


mbschk Version 1.02  (rcs 1.126) (08/14/08) DEMO
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mbschk  [options]


options


-strict     do not quit on syntax errors
-gds[:N]    create gds stream optionally using N as the output name
-native     gds stream user units are derived from mebes file
-grid:G     set gds stream user units to G
-layer:L    output stream data to layer L, -1 implies layering
            by stripe number

Examples of mbschk

Command line example of mbschk is documented below:

../bin/mbschk my_mebes_file.mbs
Displays information about the mebes file found in the file header, as well as, summaries found in each segment. 


../bin/mbschk my_mebes_file.mbs -gds
In addition to the usual informational summaries, a GDSII file named my_mebes_file.gds will be created with the following units: um with a precision of 1/1000. 


../bin/mbschk my_mebes_file.mbs -gds:zed.sf
In addition to the usual informational summaries, a GDSII file named zed.sf will be created with the following units: um with a precision of 1/1000. 


../bin/mbschk my_mebes_file.mbs -gds:stdout
In addition to the usual informational summaries, a GDSII file will be streamed to stdout with the following units: um with a precision of 1/1000. 


../bin/mbschk my_mebes_file.mbs -gds -grid:0.25
In addition to the usual informational summaries, a GDSII file named my_mebes_file.gds will be created with the following units: um with a precision of 1/4. 


../bin/mbschk my_mebes_file.mbs -gds -native
In addition to the usual informational summaries, a GDSII file named my_mebes_file.gds will be created with the following units: um with a precision equal to that found in the MEBES file. 


../bin/mbschk my_mebes_file.mbs -gds -layer:10
In addition to the usual informational summaries, a GDSII file named my_mebes_file.gds will be created with the following units: um with a precision of 1/1000. The boundaries will be output to GDSII layer 10, datatype 0.






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