How to convert 16-bit strategy files to 32-bit strategy files?
You cannot use 16bit strategy file to 32bit by simply renaming the .bs to .rsf. This doesn’t make the conversion of strategy file. Either you have to convert this strategy through the database conversion using Conversion manager or you have to generate a similar strategy file in EDWin and save it to .rsf file. In the first case the strategy file get converted along with the database and thus you will get it in the Arizona Strategy window. Here you can save the file by clicking “SAVE” button and it gets saved to .rsf extension file. Q7: When I start my autorouter and I try to load the Edwin file into it I get next error code: Error code= 409, Error func= 403, error padstack. What does this mean and how can I solve the problem so that I can run the autorouter? This error indicates that there may be some problem with the padstack. Either it may be created incorrectly or you might have placed it in the wrong way. Please check all the padstack in that particular project. I try autorouting t