workflow.md

Workflow

You'll need 2 windows:

1. A text editor or IDE (Visual Studio Code, Pycharm, Spyder, neovim, Atom, Jupyterlab ...)
2. Klayout to Visualize the GDS files. With the klive klayout package for showing GDS files when you run. Tools -> Manage Packages Component.show()

1. Standard Python flow

1. You write your PCells in python.
2. You execute the python code.
3. You visualize the GDS Layout in Klayout.

The standard python flow can leverage all machine learning tools such as Jupyter notebooks.

2. File-watcher flow

For building large components can use a file-watcher and see your updates in KLayout.

1. You execute the file watcher gf watch FolderName or in the current working directory gf watch
2. The file-watcher re-runs any python file .py or YAML .pic.yaml.
3. Thanks to the cell cache you can see your new component changes live updating the layout in Klayout.