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The LayoutEditor

LayoutEditor an free GDS Viewer is a program to design and edit layouts for MEMS/IC fabrication. As well as it is suitably for Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM), Chip-on-Board (COB), Low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC), printed circuit boards (PCB), GDS Editor thick film technology, thin film technology, .... It has sophisticated functions like all angles, font generator, macros, boolean operations, design rule checker, netlist driven layout and LVS. The Calma GDSII file format is used as the primary file format. Also OASIS (Open Artwork System Interchange Standard), DXF, CIF (Caltech Intermediate Form) and Gerber (RS-274X) are full supported. LEF, DEF, Alliance, Lasi file can be imported. The LayoutEditor is crossplatform compatible and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and much more platforms.

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About 5 years ago the LayoutEditor project was started. Few month later the first version was released: a simple viewer for GDSII files. It was published as Open-Source on sourceforge and achieved 44 downloads within the first month. Initial users made many feature requests. A quick implementation resulted in more users with more features request, ... It grown to a very popular and full featured editor which can easily keep up with high priced tools. Last month it achieved 3285 downloads.

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GDSII (Calma GDS II)
OASIS (Open Artwork System Interchange Standard)
DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)
CIF (Caltech Intermediate Form)
Gerber (RS-274X)
LEF (Library Exchange Format)
DEF (Design Exchange Format)
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
PS (PostScript)
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
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ODB++
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CSV (Comma Separated Values)
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more than
28.000
downloads per year
from about 100 countries
around the world.

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intel, stan­ford uni­versity, aist, asml, uni­versity berk­eley, ibm, uni­versity bar­celona, brother, mitsu­bishi, cern, amd, cal­ifornia inst­itute of tech­nology, nec, st­micro­electronics, jeol, 3M, uni­versity of tokyo, bosch, tri­quint, elmos, toppan prin­ting, arg­onne national labor­atory, sharp, kla­-tencor, novo­sibirsk scien­tific center, mentor graphics, seagate, honey­well, samsung, fujitsu, infineon, messa­chusetts institute of tech­nology, nxp, saifun semi­con­ductors, har­vard uni­versity, applied materials, ge, los alamos national labor­atory, siemens, rf mono­lithics, ray­theon, smith, micro­staq, oxford uni­versity, sanyo, toshiba, col­umbia uni­versity, osaka uni­ver­sity, sy­nopsys, ricoh, omron, anritsu, max-­planck-­institut, oki, vishay, nat­ional insti­tute of stan­dards and tech­nology, uni­ver­site louvain, agilent, fuji­film, tokyo electron, national physical labor­atory, xfab, yale uni­versity, nasa, free­scale, micro­soft, chalmers uni­versity, austria­micro­systems, cadence, hiro­shima uni­versity, ford, tyco elec­tronics, heidel­berg instrument micro­technik, chartered, ecole poly­tech­nique de mon­treal, sony, matsu­shita electric, texas instru­ments, hynix, for­schungs­zen­trum karlsruhe, nec, fraun­hofer institut, lucent, swiss federal institute of tech­nology, delft uni­versity, uni trieste, uni­versity of stellen­bosch, university of western ontario, uppsala uni­versity, kyushu inst­itute of tech­nology, japan aero­space explor­ation agency, national chiao tung uni­ver­sity, pohang uni­versity, uni­versi­dade esta­dual de cam­pinas, instituto politecnico nacional, nanyang technological university, reseau de l'universite de franche-comte, university of oslo, university of bucharest, gdansk university of technology