B.2.1 INFO Section

B.2.1 `INFO` Section

The first section of a WSS file contains some general information about the file. The section holds the following three tuples:

VERSION. This keyword is used to handle possible future extensions of the file format. Whenever a major change (e.g. a new section is introduced) occurs the version number should be increased. This allows detection and handling of older versions.
NAME. Defines a unique name for the whole wafer.
DIMENSION. Defines the geometrical dimension of the file. This number must correspond to the number of coordinates of a point (in the POINTS section) and also with the number of points that are referenced by an element in a GRID section.

The VERSION and NAME keywords expect a string as value, the DIMENSION keyword expects an integer argument. Strings must be quoted if they contain one or more spaces (e.g.: "a string with spaces"). For strings without spaces the quotation is optional. Fig. B.2 depicts the syntax definition of the INFO section. Fig. B.3 shows an example of a WSS INFO section.

**Figure B.2:** Syntax of `INFO` section.
$\begin{figure}\hrulefill\par\ \par\vspace{-0.2cm} %% \begin{tabular}{p{2.5cm}ll... ... {\it intval} \\ \end{tabular}\par\ \par\vspace{-0.2cm} \hrulefill \end{figure}$

**Figure B.3:** Sample `INFO` section of a WSS file.
$\begin{figure}\hrulefill \vspace*{-0.25cm}\begin{verbatim}VERSION$

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