8 to 9

In GDSFactory8, ports and instance units were not consistent with each other. Port units were in DBU while instance units were in um.

GDSFactory9 makes ports and instance units consistent with each other. Port units are in um while instance units are in um.

We have had to make some small changes to the API of the following classes:

• Component

• Port

• ComponentReference

• ComponentReferences

Main changes

Note the migration changes:

• port.dangle has been renamed to port.orientation

  • port.angle represents the angle 90 degrees multiples.

  • port.orientation represents the angle in degrees.

• CHECK_INSTANCES has been renamed to CheckInstances

  • Most often used in the @cell decorator.

• Port(..., layer: tuple[int, int]) has been replaced with Port(..., layer: int)

  • layer now represents the layer index in the KLayout layer stack.

  • To update your code you can do Port(..., layer=gf.kcl.layout.layer(*layer))

  • We also recommend just using Component.add_port, which lets you specify the layer as tuple.

• Most of the d prefix attributes and functions can now be used without the d prefix.

• ComponentReference.parent has been removed, you should use ComponentReference.cell instead.

• ComponentReference.info has been removed, you should use ComponentReference.cell.info instead.

import gdsfactory as gf

c = gf.components.straight(length=10)
c.pprint_ports()

┏━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ name ┃ width ┃ orientation ┃ layer    ┃ center      ┃ port_type ┃
┡━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ o1   │ 0.5   │ 180.0       │ WG (1/0) │ (0.0, 0.0)  │ optical   │
│ o2   │ 0.5   │ 0.0         │ WG (1/0) │ (10.0, 0.0) │ optical   │
└──────┴───────┴─────────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴───────────┘

print('port orientation in degrees', c.ports['o2'].orientation)
print('port x in um', c.ports['o2'].x)
print('port dx in um (decimal)', c.ports['o2'].dx)
print('port ix in integer (database units)', c.ports['o2'].ix)

port orientation in degrees 0.0
port x in um 10.0
port dx in um (decimal) 10.0
port ix in integer (database units) 10000

c = gf.Component()
ref = c << gf.c.straight()

ref.xmin = 10

print('reference x in um', ref.x)
print('reference dx in um (decimal)', ref.dx)
print('reference ix in integer (database units)', ref.ix)

reference x in um 15.0
reference dx in um (decimal) 15.0
reference ix in integer (database units) 15000

c