FLATLO(1)

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💅 flatlo — the "FLATen LOgical figure" era ✨

ok so before we even get into it — hi bestie, you're reading the FLATLO(1) page, and it lives in the ALLIANCE USER COMMANDS lineup. That's the whole vibe. Let's go. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

flatlo — literally "FLATen LOgical figure". That's the job. Flattening. That's it, that's the girl. 🦋

✨ ORIGIN ✨

So this software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, which was developed by the ASIM team at the LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. 🇫🇷 iconic institution behavior honestly.

Here's where to find them:

no cap, those are the real ones, copy them exactly. 💌

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

flatlo [option] logical_figure [instance] output_name

like, that's the shape of it. option is optional (obviously), instance is optional (also obviously), and logical_figure + output_name are the mains. 🔥

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

flatlo FLATen LOgical figure. we said it once, we'll say it again, because that's literally what the manpage says and I refuse to gatekeep. 💅

Here are the three ways to run her:

flatlo logical_figure instance output_name
flattens instance in logical_figure
flatlo -r logical_figure output_name
flattens logical_figure to the catalog
flatlo -t logical_figure output_name
flattens logical_figure to the transistors

three modes, three moods. pick your fighter. ⭐

🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

okay this is the part where the environment does the heavy lifting. all of these are mbk(1) coded, so keep that in mind:

  • MBK_CATA_LIB — the list of directories containing descriptions. the default path is the current directory (see mbk(1)). 🍓
  • MBK_CATAL_NAME — points at the file where the behavioral description files are given. This serves to flatbeh to stop the flatten of the structural root circuit. (see mbk(1)) 🫶 that's exactly how the page puts it, so that's exactly how I'm giving it to you.
  • MBK_IN_LO — file extension for structural entity. (see mbk(1)) 💜
  • MBK_IN_OUT — file extension for structural entity. (see mbk(1)) 💜 yes it says the same thing as the one above, no I'm not editing the source, that's not my job bestie.

💀 SEE ALSO 💀

go read these next, they're the supporting cast and they ate:

😭 BUG REPORT 😭

Real talk: this tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory.

And they literally say, and I quote the vibe: we need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. so like… tell them things. they're asking nicely. 🙈

⚠️ heads up bestie — this whole page is under-development territory, so if something's weird, that's the context, not you.

and that's the whole page!! 🌈 mwah 💋

ASIM/LIP6 · October 1, 1997 · and the page itself is FLATLO(1) — yeah it's an oldie, but she's still serving. 🕰️✨

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