As pointed out in Section 1.1.1, PIF is the old native file format of
various tools developed at the Institute for Microelectronics. Due to the strict bottom up design
semantical constraints on the data were introduced at a time where many
simulators where already integrated with the basic PIF libraries and had
defined their own data model. As a consequence several, semantically
incompatible, PIF versions emerged. Therefore only limited support for some
variations of PIF is possible in the WAFER-STATE-SERVER. Since all of the newly developed
simulators from the Institute for Microelectronics are already based on the WAFER-STATE-SERVER data format the
limited support of PIF is not a relevant shortcoming.
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