Pattern Replacement for Post Processing

 

Motivation:

Need can arise to modify an existing design by replacing specific parts by new elements. The REPLACE in combination with a FILTER can identify structures and replace these on a large scale by new elements.

Solution:

For this the FILTER and the REPLACE modules in BEAMER can be used. FILTER allows to select specific elements by criteria such as size, area, shape and isolate them to a specific layer. REPLACE can pick elements of a cell and replace these by other elements. The combination of these two options gives great flexibility to post process a design after creation with little effort and greater ease.