v0.5.24

• function connect_pins_with_waveguide(): find parents. when looking for mutual parent for two cells, scan the entire tree hierarchy. Code generated by ChatGPT 4o
• remove caching for load_Waveguides_by_Tech()

v0.5.23

• new functionality for Verification.xml: ignore_pins_on_floorplan. Check if the pin is touching the floorplan; if so assume it is a port to an adjacent layout and ignore
• improve load_lumapi.py: Dealing with a situation where Lumerical was partially deleted and upgraded, leaving an empty folder that previously contained lumapi.py
• Disable Libraries.py, menu SiEPIC > Layout. Useful for loading a layout and not re-computing all the PCells

v0.5.22

• Fixes to Verification issue caused by cache (#236)
• additional message in connect_pins_with_waveguide()
• add variable for Library folder in load_klayout_library()

v0.5.20

• added MANIFEST.in file to capture file required in OPICS

v0.5.19

What's Changed

• Fix for: Circuit Simulation: OPICS - "Unable to import the library: opics_ebeam". Updated both Tools and the EBeam PDK

v0.5.18

• IPython dependancy

Full Changelog: v0.5.17...v0.5.18

v0.5.17

What's Changed

• Replace cell by @lukasc-ubc in #229
• Replace cell by @lukasc-ubc in #230
• extend pya.Cell().image by @lukasc-ubc in #231

Full Changelog: v0.5.16...v0.5.17

v0.5.16

What's Changed

• SiEPIC.scripts.load_klayout_library: abs path. allow either relative path or absolute path as input, by @lukasc-ubc in #225
• new PCell coupler_array function, fixes by @lukasc-ubc in #226
• SiEPIC Version check, layout_diff by @lukasc-ubc in #227
• SiEPIC.scripts.export_layout (): export cell rather than entire layout
• additional pytests, and updates to GitHub Actions
• Action to check for paths being too long, causing problems on Windows

Full Changelog: v0.5.15...v0.5.16

v0.5.15

What's Changed

• FaML function and tests by @lukasc-ubc in #224

Full Changelog: v0.5.14...v0.5.15

v0.5.14

• option to disable radius check in the functional verification (disabled in the EBeam PDK since we now have S-Bends, and the checker didn't recognized S-Bends).
• simplify loading PDK libraries, with a new function SiEPIC.scripts.load_klayout_library
• new function: list technologies loaded, SiEPIC.scripts.technology_libraries